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Japanese Shuttle, Space Plane & other Projects
Hi, the Japanese Hope-X is unmanned spaceplane. http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/2003/2003%20-%201081.html- hesham
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- cold war deep space probes heavy lift vehicle japan mars moon national space development agency of japan (nasda) post-cold war satellite single-stage-to-orbit space age space plane space probes space race space shuttle spaceplane ssto
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MEM: the Mars Excursion Module of the 1960s
better know as Mission Engineering Study of Electrically Propelled Manned Planetary Vehicles GE began the study for MSFC in July 1966. they proposed to uses both nuclear-thermal and nuclear-electric propulsion. Nuclear ionengine give mission flexibility also for unfavorable opportunities and...- Michel Van
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- 1960s 1967 cold war contractor models deep space probes general electric late 1960s manned mars marshall space flight center model nasa nasa marshall space flight center north american aviation nuclear power nuclear rockets nuclear-electric propulsion post-apollo space age space probes space race united states
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Design of Manned Mission to Mars
In light of the wildly varying opinions on this somewhat polarizing topic I have a proposal that may require this being moved to Theoretical and Speculative or to Alternative History and Future Speculation. Not sure which. I would like to employ my considerable artistic prowess to creating a...- prolific1
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- 21st century manned mars nuclear rockets what-if
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- Forum: Theoretical, Fake and Generic Projects
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1960s Voyager to Mars program
Links, concept artwork, and models of the Apollo Applications Program (AAP) probe to Mars program named Voyager from the 1960s. Not to be confused with the later Voyager program that went to the outer planets. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_program_(Mars)...- Triton
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- 1960s cold war mars nasa space age space race
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Disc-shaped prototype?
Dear forum members, do anybody know what is the experimental "flying disc" shown at minutes 19:18-19:22 of this video by Jane's journalist Nick Cook, please? http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-834605691449249469 I have made 3 stills from the video: - the disc is dropped: - two...- Drive
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- cold war late 1960s mars nasa parachute space race
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- Forum: Secret Postwar Aircraft Projects
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Werner von Braun's "Marsprojekt" ("Exploration Of Mars")
Hi, I can't consider this design in a book as a project,so I ask about it here in Aerospace section,in Flightglobal a group of books from 1950s, one book called; The Exploration of Mars,I can't identify the project on it,can anybody that ...- hesham
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- 1950s cold war late 1940s mars space age united states
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Douglas ROMBUS
Philip Bono master piece "Reusable Orbital Module-Booster & Utility Shuttle"from 1964 http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/rombus.htm is SSTO (VTOVL) with payload 450 tons in 185 km Orbit. with a plug nozzle rocket engine design, used also as heat shield during atmospheric reentry. most of LH2 fuel...- Michel Van
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- cold war deep space probes douglas aircraft company douglas aircraft company missile & space division heavy lift vehicle mars moon moonbase nasa single-stage-to-orbit space age space race ssto
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