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In the mid-1970s, NASA was investigating the subject of Oblique Wing Research Aircraft. Of course we have all seen the much-publicized NASA/Ames AD-1 "Skew Wing" or Rutan Model 35... and a modified F-8 Crusader was considered at some point...

2nd US Satellite: Vanguard 1 1958 NASA; Oldest Satellite Still in Orbit Jeff Quitney Published on Jul 13, 2018 "On March 17, (1958) a Vanguard I rocket launched an Earth satellite with solar batteries. Data from the mission was used to determine that the Earth is slightly pear-shaped. From...

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Hi I have found this presentation that I could not find on this forum yet: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-to-test-in-flight-folding-spanwise-adaptive-wing-to-enhance-aircraft-efficiency and https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20170009544.pdf on a concept for wings that...

The San Diego Air & Space Museum (SDASM) has recently posted on YouTube (circa ~1962-64) Republic Aviation silent B-roll footage of work performed on Project FIRE (Flight Investigation of Re-Entry). Project FIRE is described at Gunther's Space Page accordingly...

This is an orbit-to-orbit design spacecraft from the Martin Marietta corporation. I found it in a book Man's Conquest of Space by the National Geographic Society (1968). Now you know as much as I do. Does anybody know if this was an actual study or just something slapped together by the MM...

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...

Hi I found this presentation. best F_T

Fascinating tale. https://skyriddles.wordpress.com/2018/01/21/nasas-long-dead-image-satellite-is-alive/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

In 2003, I wrote in a white heat an essay on Columbia's loss, which took on the shuttle's history. I submitted this to "Harper's" and "The Atlantic," neither of which bought it. Unrevised save for the addition of photos, it can be found on my personal website here...

Report lays out potential changes to WFIRST to reduce its cost http://spacenews.com/report-lays-out-potential-changes-to-wfirst-to-reduce-its-cost/

In other words, steampunk in the space age. ;D ORIGINAL CAPTION: AREE is a clockwork rover inspired by mechanical computers. A JPL team is studying how this kind of rover could explore extreme environments, like the surface of Venus. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech...

Grumman Horizontal Landing Logistics Spacecraft proposals found on eBay. Source: http://www.ebay.com/itm/GRUMMAN-PROPOSALS-HORIZONTAL-LANDING-LOGISTICS-SPACECRAFT-REENTRY-VEHICLE-DESIGN-/132212492362?hash=item1ec87a884a:g:FUUAAOSwcB5ZMDzz

This is just a little thought exercise in a 'what-if' scenario for a hypersonic flight research program. The US efforts to develop a hypersonic aircraft design in the 1950's (Aerospaceplace, X-15), 1960's (X-20, Lifting Bodies), and 1970's (X-24C, HYFAC) culminated, for a time, in the USAF and...

The Leros engine has commonalities with other engines that have called issues including MUOS 5 I believe. https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/02/due-to-concerns-about-engine-juno-to-remain-in-elongated-jupiter-orbit/

Found on SDASM archive on Flickr Album Convair had Study in 1960 a Three Stage Atlas Centaur with smaller Centaur as Third Stage

Rest on the link. http://www.thespacereview.com/article/3160/1

Immagine that Richard Nixon instead of JFK was elected President of United States in November 1960,and that Alan Shepard was the first man in space (but not in orbit) in Febraury 1961. Two events that could happen. In this scenario,if President Nixon not consider necessary a manned mission on...

Artist’s conception of the Lucy and Psyche mission spacecraft (Left) An artist’s conception of the Lucy spacecraft flying by the Trojan Eurybates – one of the six diverse and scientifically important Trojans to be studied. Trojans are fossils of planet formation and so will supply important...

Hi, Just found this original Grumman Space Shuttle antenna concept art on the bay (illustration painting by Ken Crawford). http://www.ebay.com/itm/NASA-Concept-Art-Original-Shuttle-Space-Americana-Space-Program-Historic-Grumman-/112227592338 Never heard of that concept before and didn't know...