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It seems that in 1962 the proposal was made to fit out what could have been 'Ranger 6' with a camera installation comprising the Ranger 3-4-5 vidicon unit paired with a high resolution (80ft at closest approach) film camera and a re-entry capsule that would drop the high resolution camera film...

Got this today. http://www.space.com/12954-nasa-rocket-powerful-space-launch-system.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+spaceheadlines+%28SPACE.com+Headline+Feed%29&utm_content=My+Yahoo

Over the years NASA has run various systems engineering courses with universities around the United States. In the mid-1970 a group associated with Rice University was asked to design a Dual-Mode rover for use in the 1980's. The selected design was for a two man, tracked rover. Manned/Unmanned...

From the June 1959 edition of Popular Science, an article on the Martin Company's USAF Lunar Simulator project, basically intended to simulate conditions inside a long-term manned installation on the Moon. Among it's interesting features was the plan to eventually have it house it's own...

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...

Hi, the Japanese Hope-X is unmanned spaceplane. http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/2003/2003%20-%201081.html

Massive rocket base to be built The world's largest design, production and testing base for rockets is being built in Tianjin, Liang Xiaohong, deputy head of the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology, said Thursday. The first phase of the rocket industrial base in Tianjin's Binhai New Area...

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 --...

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

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...

Apollo Telescope Mount 01, "Stellar ATM" (Space World magazine, June 1972 (vol I-6-102), "Lunar Module Derivatives for Future Space Missions," pp.58) Apollo Telescope Mount 02 (Kenneth Gatland, "The Pocket Encyclopedia of Spaceflight in Color: Manned Spacecraft," 1967, p.230) Apollo...

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...

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...

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...

I have read conflicting information concerning the Soviet N1 rocket. Some sources say that the 30 engine design of the first stage was fatally flawed and the complex piping was damaged during rail transport to Baikonur. But then another source says that Nikolai Kuznetsov continued to work to...

An article on pre-Shenzhou studies and the Shenzhou project. Check it out: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/launchpad/1921/story-7.htm You gotta love this illustration. Here you go. Moonbat

Most, although by no means all, pre-Apollo concepts for manned lunar flights depended on assembly or at least refueling in LEO. It's my understanding that a reason for dropping this approach was that it could not be done in time to satisfy Apollo's before-this-decade-is-out deadline. Probably...

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...

sounds insane, more like cheap "Sci-Fi" TV Movies of Germans Networks but like History shows, some one proposed that To NASA ! Cislunar Application of the Space Shuttle Orbiter Project V1086, J. E. Blahnik; undated (post-July 1971) attachment to memorandum from Director, Science and...

Just after President Kennedy May 1961 call for a lunar landing before the end of the decade, there was a lot of proposals for boosters capable to take a manned lander to the Moon: ever growing Saturns, and Novas built with the most diverse combination of stages, liquid, solid and nuclear. One of...