Aerospatiale STS-2000

[flateric]

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[Archibald]

Reminds me of that book I had as a kid, 30 years ago. The last chapter had all the cool rocketplanes of the time: Shuttle, Orient Express, Buran, HOTOL, Hermes, HOPE, Saenger, Star-H, STS-2000...

 

[NavarchNicias]

I love these designs, and this whole design era. I highly recommend JC Carbonel's French and European Spaceplane Designs, 1964 - 1994 in the French Secret Projects book series. Conveniently, the back cover blurb is even printed over a picture of the STS-2000, which is covered thoroughly. There's a lot of art and design material that I'd never seen before, and this really helped clarify the relationship between some of the confusingly similar designs like the STS-2000, Taranis, and the AGV.