US Space Shuttle Projects

[Temistocle]

Hi, there is an interesting paper from the AIAA 2004 conference:

Space Shuttle Variations and Derivatives That Never Happened - An Historical Review

I have the pdf, but I am not sure I can post it here for copyright issues...

 

[Dynoman]

Temistocle, here is a link to the same paper.

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/eaf4/a1ac20fa923f325f91d4540e756307ec49c1.pdf?_ga=2.30801148.2110675860.1579025696-1849602100.1569329546

 

[gtg947h]

Hi, there is an interesting paper from the AIAA 2004 conference:

Space Shuttle Variations and Derivatives That Never Happened - An Historical Review

I have the pdf, but I am not sure I can post it here for copyright issues...

That was an interesting presentation, if I remember correctly (I attended the conference and saw that one; we also presented and Bob Crippen came to watch )

 

[Archibald]

the stretched orbiter is so cute !

 

[hesham]

From L+K 18/1992,

I don't know if we discuss this subject before or not,what was this VTOL Shuttle ?.

 

[martinbayer]

hesham,

it's a notional Mars rocketplane design based on an ISRU concept called Nuclear rocket using Indigenous Martian Fuel (NIMF) from a 1980's Martin Marietta study by Robert Zubrin, see the paper at https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwipk7blhMrnAhXkJzQIHZbpAUIQFjACegQIAhAB&url=https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19910012833.pdf&usg=AOvVaw0DL6VQfwhla8WCq6MQNU5g.

Martin

 

[Orionblamblam]

From L+K 18/1992,

I don't know if we discuss this subject before or not,what was this VTOL Shuttle ?.

That was Martin-Marietta artwork to illustrate the "NIMF" Mars lander, a nuclear-powered vehicle capable of SSTO operation on Mars. This was something of an offshoot of the "Mars Direct" project. The actual NIMF design was a lot simpler and frankly duller than the artwork.