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  1. Triton

    Space Transfer Concepts and Analyses for Exploration Missions (STCAEM) (1991)

    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...
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  2. flateric

    Chelomey OKB-52 UR-700 rockets family

    1). UR-700K 2). UR-700 with RO-31 nuclear rocket engine (250 t to LEO) all images (c) NPOMash please don't repost anywhere 3). UR-700 compared to N1 and Saturn V
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    • cccp chelomei bureau cold war heavy lift vehicle icbm nuclear rockets soviet moon program soviet strategic missile troops soviet strategic rocket forces soviet union space age space race tskbm design bureau ussr
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  3. Triton

    LM-B/Space Tug

    Does anyone know any details concerning the Grumman Lunar Module-B/Space Tug that was part of the Integrated Man Space Flight Program? I have found information that says its diameter was 22 feet and other information that says it was 15 feet. Did earlier concepts of the space shuttle have a...
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    • apollo applications program cold war lunar nasa nuclear rockets space age space race space transportation system united states
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  4. flateric

    85 ton man-operated 'Beetle' built for AFSWC to tend nuclear-powered rockets

    Courtesy LIFE/Google
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    • af project no. 8171 air force special weapons center aircraft nuclear propulsion program cold war cybernetics general electric company nuclear powered aircraft nuclear rockets robotics shielded remote handling vehicle teleoperation united states united states air force usaf shielded cab vehicles
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  5. shadowcat48li

    Project Orion / Project Daedalus

    I am looking for information on Project Orion/Daedalus[British name for roughly the same thing] this was an early nuclear powered spacecraft that used focused nuclear explosions for thrust.
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    • air defense command british interplanetary society cold war deep space probes general atomics great britain nasa nuclear battlefield nuclear rockets space age space race space weapons strategic air command united states united states air force
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  6. Michel Van

    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...
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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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  7. A

    Early european rocketry projects

    title says all. It seems that Tony Buttler did it again! Along the mythical Avro 732 "supersonic Vulcan" he mention a Vulcan with a Diamant rocket under wing. (I've seen a pic, but I won't post it here) More info on the context and specs of this project ? I've checked Diamant A/B/BP-4 at...
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    • cold war eldo european launcher development organisation european space agency france great britain nuclear power nuclear rockets space race west germany western europe
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  8. Michel Van

    To The Moon with .... the Space Shuttle ?!

    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...
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    • cold war moon nasa nuclear rockets space age space race space shuttle space transportation system united states
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  9. Orionblamblam

    Military Orions (nuclear pulse propulsion)

    Busily working away on the next issue of Aerospace Projects Review, with the main article being on the 10-meter baseline Orion designs for the USAF and NASA. Part of the article deals with some suggested military roles for the smaller sized Orions, including ground-based command and control...
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    • cold war nuclear nuclear rockets space race strategic air command united states united states air force
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  10. hesham

    Douglas Astro delta-wing spacecraft

    Hi, the Douglas Astro was delta-wing vehicle and spacecraft,it was combined aircraft and rocketry concepts. http://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1963/1963%20-%201667.pdf
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    • air defense command astronomical art cold war douglas aircraft company douglas aircraft company missile & space division douglas missile & space division missiles and space systems division (douglas) nasa nuclear rockets space age space art space race united states united states air force
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  11. Antonio

    Nuclear Powered Spacecraft

    Found this article at Flight archive. A nuclear Saturn V is illustrated http://www.flightglobal.com/PDFArchive/View/1967/1967%20-%200502.html
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    • cccp cold war cold war ii deep space probes nasa nuclear microreactor nuclear power nuclear rockets post-cold war small nuclear reactors space age space race united states air force
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