Douglas RITA (Reusable Interplanetary Transport Approach)

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Barrington Bond said:
A Douglas ad with what looks like Astro in it..
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Douglas Nuclear Space Ship


Douglas 1960 nuclear powered spacecraft
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A Look Back…Recoverable Rocket Boosters - A Future That Never Was
by Tony R. Landis
Page: 8
- DOUGLAS NUCLEAR LAUNCH VEHICLE CONCEPT ART
https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/th...future-that-never-was-by-tony-r-landis.36940/
 
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Douglas RITA - Reusable Interplanetary Transport Approach


Book:
MEDICAL AND BIOLOGICAL PROBLEMS OF SPACE FLIGHT
Proceedings of a Conference Held in Nassau, the Bahamas, November, 1961
edited by Geoffrey H. Bourne, 1963
Page: 54 - 62
"TYPICAL ADVANCE SYSTEMS"

Page: 55 - CUTAWAY
- RITA space vehicle

Page: 60 - DRAWING
- nuclear saucer-type space vehicle
(200 ft. diameter, passenger located in in the perimeter of the disc)

Page:61- DRAWING
- design for nuclear space vehicle
(reactor on top, four swivel rocket nozzles, crew and cargo around the ring at the bottom of the ship)


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DOUGLAS 1963 ARTWORK
 

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