space race

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCeMCwxayp0 View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua4QMFQATco&t=0s View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABMV4wXx6Xo&t=0s View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FeXPOFRxp0

Disney-von Braun XR-1 spaceplane

von Braun retriever rocket

Hi I really love this web site it has so much fantastic info on the hidden or forgotten space projects. Sadly, I don’t visit this website enough due to my projects. In 1989 I had my old boardgame Liftoff! Race to the Moon published; a simulation for four players with alternate proposed ways of...

In the document below, at page 23 there is the following sentence: "During the early 1960s, the U.S. Navy was also researching possible ASAT capabilities. Early efforts focused on matching a Navy Sparrow anti-aircraft missile with a Polaris Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile (SLBM) but these...

As said in the title... all the robotic planetary missions launched in the 70's left a spare spacecraft on the ground (and later, at the NASM aerospace museum). There were good reasons for that - providing spares - ground testing - backup in case of failures (Mariner 8...) Soooo ...by 1978...

Source: Norman Friedman's Seapower and Space p365-366. AST.9003 envisaged satellites orbiting at 200 miles in 97 degree (sun-synchronous) orbits carrying two cameras with television readout, and an ELINT Antenna. Resolution of the cameras would be 25 and 5 yards with swath widths of 45 and 7...

The Right Stuff is an upcoming American drama television series, which is based on the 1979 book of the same name by Tom Wolfe. It is set to premiere at the streaming service Disney+ on October 9th, 2020. First trailer: View: https://youtu.be/Og0htvEVqJQ This series might be good.:) But the...

I need help I have been unable to find any pictures of the rear view of the X-15 ejection seat cane anyone help with this? thanks

The other day I was looking at some space proposals from the past and I stumbled upon this beautiful SSTO. I have only been able to find one source that gave some details about it and I'm very much hoping that you guys can help get more details/drawings on this proposal. "The ”Windjammer”...

Another of Scott Manley’s historical documentary videos:

Another interesting historical video from Scott Manley:

;) https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-51019798

Apple has released the first three episodes of For All Mankind, an alternate history TV series. Ron Moore, of Battlestar Galactica, is running it. The premise is that the Soviets were lucky with the N-1 and the first man on the moon was Alexei Leonov. As a result, the space race continues...

Yep George Levin has stirred this up again with a new opinion piece in Scientific American. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/im-convinced-we-found-evidence-of-life-on-mars-in-the-1970s/ Here’s a support article...

First man to spacewalk, one of the five on the Soyuz-Apollo flight.

Just been leafing through a copy of an old Brooke Bond card album about spaceflight which ends with various NASA projects planned before Nixon went for a leaner option I also have Stephen Baxter's novel VOYAGE about a US manned mission to Mars in the 80s. To get the Von Braun vision to work...

https://spacenews.com/mars-sample-return-mission-plans-begin-to-take-shape/