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AMSCI/ALSV - Air-launched mini shuttles from early 1980s
I think that you remember these tiny stuff that Boeing, Rockwell and GD proposed to USAF under family of programs - "Air-Launched Sortie Vehicle", ALSV/“Advanced Military Spaceflight Capability Technology Identification”, AMSCI and so on. Don't you have higher-resolution scans of these...- flateric
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Hawker Siddeley late 1960's STS?
In Volume 59 Supplement 2, 2006 of BIS’s Space Chronicles – UK Spaceplanes, there is mention on Page 107 of a R. H Francis from Hawker Siddeley presenting a paper ‘believed to be in Virginia around the late 1960’s, where he showed a configuration identical to that of the US Space Shuttle...- PMN1
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Various US Reusable Launch Vehicles (RLV) Projects
A very interesting site concerning the decisons that led to the STS being the way it is. http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4221/contents.htm- PMN1
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Space Shuttle Carrier Aircraft Projects
Here are a few Shuttle Carrier pics from the start of the Shuttle Program, courtesy of Flight. Two are of the C-5, and one is a twin-fuselage 747 concept :o Flight PDF links: http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1973/1973%20-%202861.html...- starviking
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