The story of how the Enterprise was almost named the Constitution before Trekkies suggested the former is widely published, but is there any more information regarding proposed titles for the other orbiters?
The Dawn spacecraft continues to orbit the asteroid Ceres after a successful mapping mission to the asteroid Vesta. These two asteroids are the largest ones in the asteroid belt. There is a mysterious array of bright spots on Ceres (see image) which have yet to be explained. Anyone have a clue...
http://nextbigfuture.com/2015/03/nasa-vision-of-spacecraft-and-base-for.html
NASA examined revolutionary aerospace systems concepts for human space exploration of the solar system beyond Mars orbit and identified critical technology requirements for the realization of these systems concepts...
Issue #01 of US Launch Vehicle Projects has just come out:
http://www.aerospaceprojectsreview.com/blog/?p=2103
Pre-Saturn Phase III Vehicles: 1958 concept for clustered Atlas boosters
Boeing “Big Onion”: an SSTO to launch SPS
Northrop TAV: an in-flight propellant transfer spaceplane
Martin...
Requirements and capabilities for planetary missions. Volume 2: Mars polar orbiter penetrator 1981
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19760014153.pdf
For details on the penetrators planned to be used see the thread "Hughes/Sandia - Pioneer Mars Orbiter (1974)"...
One of the more interesting results of the various NASA space engineering projects.
Designed by a team from the University of Auburn, this Saturn V launched probe, which would have been launched sometime between 1975 -1980 had it been built.
Upon arrival at Jupiter (After an 800-900 day trip...
As per this item today (10-Nov-2014), Gizmodo is starting a series of posts "showcasing the work of some of the most noted aerospace artists."
They start today with Attila Héjja (Hejja):
The Hungarian-Born Painter Who Immortalized America's Space Program
by Atilla Nagy, Gizmodo - 10-Nov-2014
**...
Via Slashdot:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/15/us/jack-kinzler-skylabs-savior-dies-at-94.html
Jack Kinzler in 1973 with a photo of the thermal shield he created for the Skylab station. Credit United Press International
Godspeed.
"Finally, just last Friday President Obama signed a new federal spending bill into law. This bill includes money to continue NASA's human space exploration program. Surprisingly, the exploration program being funded is a program long thought dead by the space community.
It is basically the...
What is exatly this?
An alternative type of MMU for Skylab or Shuttle?
Is in a lot of space publications of 70s.
P.S-
(A Apollo docking probe on the nose)?? :o
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