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  1. Caravellarella

    United Aircraft Corporation Pogo-Stick Lunar Cabin Vehicle project......

    Dear Boys and Girls; please don't ask as I really don't know. Here is a picture with a caption in French of the United Aircraft Corporation "project" (could even be a "concept") for a Lunar Cabin Vehicle that operates like a Pogo-Stick; designed by Dr. Howard S. Seifert...... The picture comes...
  2. C

    US Lunar Lander Concepts

    The first three spacecraft studied under NASA's Apollo program designation were proposals by Martin, General Electric and Convair Astronautics (General Dynamics) in partnership with Avco. Depicted here is the Convair Phase C lunar lander, in which the entire Apollo vehicle landed on the moon --...
  3. XP67_Moonbat

    Centurion HLV Concept

    Another one from the lasses and lads at GA Tech: https://smartech.gatech.edu/bitstream/1853/8382/1/aiaa_2004-3735_paper.pdf
  4. RyanC

    The Battle for Constellation Begins.

    Story NASA's plans to return astronauts to the moon are dead. So are the rockets being designed to take them there — that is, if President Barack Obama gets his way. When the White House releases his budget proposal Monday, there will be no money for the Constellation program that was supposed...
  5. Michel Van

    British 1960 manned Lunar Project

    back in 1960 P. A. E. Stewart proposed a British manned Moon Program with the use of Blue Streak and Black Knight technolgy phase 1, 1960 to 1963 first probes (ranger types) to the moon Phase 2, 1964 to 1967 Hardware testing on earth Low orbit and Lunar Orbit. phase 3, 1968 to 1969 the...
  6. Triton

    Helium-3 Snake Oil?

    I have been reading the last couple of years that there is a new moon race to establish permanent bases on the moon to mine the satellite for Helium-3 as fuel for nuclear fusion powerplants. China, Russia, Japan, India, European Union, and the United States plan to establish permanent bases on...
  7. Triton

    LM-B/Space Tug

    Does anyone know any details concerning the Grumman Lunar Module-B/Space Tug that was part of the Integrated Man Space Flight Program? I have found information that says its diameter was 22 feet and other information that says it was 15 feet. Did earlier concepts of the space shuttle have a...
  8. Triton

    Soviet Lunar Expeditionary Complex

    Can anyone recommend a good English source for information concerning Valentin Glusko's Lunar Expeditionary Complex beyond the Russian Space Web site and Astronautix, either books or websites? Does anyone have concept art they would be willing to share? I have been on the Buran web site. It's...
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