https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20080015740.pdf
Wasn't sure whether to put this here or over in Avionics and Military/Naval electronics.
The first of the "Thousand Astronomical Unit" space probes designed from the late 70's into the 80's. Nuclear electric propulsion would send the craft on a fifty-year mission into interplanetary space to test technologies for a future true interstellar mission, for deep-space science and to map...
1970s
1980s
deep space probes
interstellar space
jet propulsion laboratory
nasa
nuclear-electric propulsion
solar system
stellar cartography
thousand astronomical unit
NASA's Next Mars Rover Progresses Toward 2020 Launch
http://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/news/whatsnew/index.cfm?FuseAction=ShowNews&NewsID=1922
http://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/images/?ImageID=7909
North American Rockwell Mars Excursion Module (MEM) model found on eBay.
URL: http://cgi.ebay.com/1967-ROCKWELL-NASA-MARS-PROTOTYPE-MODEL-SPACESHIP-RARE-/350404751800?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5195c031b8
Seller's description:
Space transfer concepts and analysis for exploration missions. Implementation plan and element description document. Volume 1: Major trades. Book 1: Draft final
Abstract:
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19930013159_1993013159.pdf
Space transfer concepts and analysis for...
The Industrial Space Facility, a stillborn attempt at a commercial man-tended space station from the 80's, courtesy of Flight. Part of the 'microgravity boom', which still doesn't seem to have arrived yet. :-[
Starviking
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