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The latest work of my friend Davide Sivolella an aeronautical engineer and a skilled author, who lives in England. If you want to learn about never realized Space Shuttle versions, this is the right book...

The flight campaign for the American space shuttle began on April 12, 1981, with the launch of STS-1 from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, and ended on July 21, 2011, with wheels stop of STS-135. During the 30 years and 135 missions in between, the program experienced triumphs and tragedies...

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...

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?

What if in 1971-72 the Congress of United States had rejected the Space Shuttle program? Was realistic the end of all USA manned programs,or yet in 1969 this option was dismissed by Nixon for National prestige reasons? If we have no end of US manned presence in space,realistically which program...

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4JOjcDFtBE View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd7dxmBLg48 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenger_disaster http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?234980-Challenger-anniversary From the 25th anniversary (2011)...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBI1-lS7rmU "This December 1969 film looks at the candidate space shuttle orbiters using M=20 electron beam flow studies. This gives an interesting look at some of the proposed designs. The only tunnels at NASA Langley Research Center reaching that speed are in...

Advanced Skylab. A great occasion lost. :'( A large space station for the Shuttle, straightway.

Proposed test bed for advanced earth resources sensors, to be mounted in a standard Spacelab pallet. Preliminary Design Study, Shuttle Modular Scanning Spectroradiometer, Final Report https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19760009075/downloads/19760009075.pdf

Of mild interest to those of us in the UK is that Space Cargo modified C-5C 80216 arrived at Mildenhall yesterday. The aircraft (along with 80213) has been subject to a degree of interest over the years in connection with various projects, alleged Boscombe Down debris retrieval etc and rarely...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFwqZ4qAUkE -1- Ignore this embedded video and go directly to YouTube -2- Select 720p HD format. -3- Do something else for about 90 minutes (long video, slow server) -4- Watch at full screen with your favorite cocktail. This is just-released NASA engineering...

According to Dennis Jenkins' "Space Shuttle" book in 1972 the NASA Flight Research Center proposed a single-seat manned scale down model version of the upcoming Orbiter in order to test the flight envelope between Mach numbers 1 to 5 (and even more). At that times NASA has choosen the general...

From the astonautix site http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/shuttle.htm VTOVL orbital launch vehicle. Status: Study 1971. Manufacturer's Designation: SERV. Chrysler ballistic single stage to orbit alternate shuttle proposal of June 1971. This was the most detailed design study ever performed on...

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...

I found this interesting image on nasaimages.org. The site give this information about it: In 1970, NASA initiated Phase A contracts to study alternate Space Shuttle designs in addition to the two-stage fully-reusable Space Shuttle system already under development. A number of alternate...

A study of air cushion landing systems for space shuttle vehicles Ryken, J. M. NASA (non Center Specific) Publication Date: Dec 1, 1970 http://hdl.handle.net/2060/19710003622 direct pdf link

Well, I swear I didn't imagine to be able to complement (and slightly correct) Dennis Jenkins work on the Shuttle, but after having triple checked with all I have, it seems this is really a new finding. We are back in second half of 1969. A number of contractors are doing early definition...

the Advanced Manned Launch System, from NTRS, http://hdl.handle.net/2060/19920025000 cheers, Robin.

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