Chrysler SERV: APR Article 31

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Apr 282010
 

It may be hard to believe, but there once was at time when the United States not only had a thriving automotive industry but ALSO a thriving aerospace industry. And perhaps shockingly, the automotive industry sometimes got into the aerospace business, and sometimes quite successfully. One case of that was Chrysler, which built, among other things, the first stage of the Saturn I and Ib. They also wanted to build the Space Shuttle… and their design for it was the Single-stage Earth orbital Reusable Vehicle (SERV).

 From APR original print issue V5N3 comes a 13-page article on the Chrysler SERV, loaded with diagrams showing the SERV both inside and out as well as the MURP (Manned Upper-stage Reusable Payload) spaceplane that was to go with the SERV.

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McDonnell Douglas GRM-29A: APR Article 30

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Apr 282010
 

From APR original print issue V5N2 comes a 7-page article on one of the more unusual launch vehicles ever conceived, the Global Range Mach-29 Aerospaceplane (GRM-29A) from McDonnell Douglas. This vehicles launched vertically and landed horizontally… not too unusual for an SSTO design, but the method by which it achieved vertical launch was unique, to say the least.

Download for the tragically low price of only $1.30.

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Advanced Multipurpose Large Launch Vehicle: APR article 29

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Apr 272010
 

From APR original print issue V5N1 comes a 14-page article on the Boeing Advanced Multipurpose Large Launch Vehicle (AMLLV), which was virtually the polar opposite of the Sea Dragon in terms of design philosophy… all the latest bells and whistles. It was also perhaps the most powerful booster ever envisioned… in it’s most powerful configuration, nearly four million pounds of payload could be carried by a vehicle with a launch thrust of 108 million pounds.

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Sea Dragon: APR article 28

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Apr 272010
 

From APR original print issue V4N6 comes a 27-page article on the Aerojet “Sea Dragon” extremely large launch vehicle concept. In an era when rocket designers were trying to produce the most technologically advanced booster designs, using the lightest, most bleeding-edge structual materials, Aerojet decided to go another direction… a rock-simple vehicle made out of conventional aluminum, built in a shipyard to shipyard standards. The end result was a truly gigantic and novel design. This article reveals the design in great detail.

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Martin “Spacemaster:” APR article 25

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Apr 242010
 

From original APR print issue V4N2 comes this 11 page article on the Martin “Spacemaster,” a concept for a two-stage Space Shuttle. The Spacemaster was unique in that the baseline booster was a dual-fuselage “catamaran” vehicles. Numerous diagrams of several versions of the Spacemaster. Download for only $2.00.

Given the troubles of late with PayPal ordering buttons on blog postings, order it (and all the other currently available APR articles) here: http://www.up-ship.com/blog/eAPR/articles.htm

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Bell X-15 Proposal: APR article 24

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Apr 242010
 

From original print issue V4N1, a 28 page article written by Dennis R. Jenkins on the D-171, Bells submission to the X-15 competition. Loaded to the gills with diagrams covering internal and external configurations of a couple versions. Download it for $5.00.

Given the troubles of late with PayPal ordering buttons on blog postings, order it (and all the other currently available APR articles) here: http://www.up-ship.com/blog/eAPR/articles.htm

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 Posted by at 12:10 pm

GRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Apr 242010
 

After a year or more of Paypal and the blog playing nice, apparently something screwy has happened. So later today when I release the next batch of APR articles, the blog will serve as the announcement, but the Paypal links will be on the regular website. This is a nuisance since the blog is a hell of a lot easier to update than the website. But I can’t have this sort of trouble for the customers. It’s annoying for them, and impoverishing for me.

GRRRRRR.

 Posted by at 8:58 am

Boeing SSTO designs, 1988: APR article 23

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Apr 232010
 

Last up for today is a brief 5-pager from issue V3N6, revealing several VTOHL single stage to orbit rocket vehicles designed by Boeing in 1988. This can be downloaded for $1.00.

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Given the troubles of late with PayPal ordering buttons on blog postings, order it (and all the other currently available APR articles) here: http://www.up-ship.com/blog/eAPR/articles.htm

 Posted by at 11:55 am

Lunar missions with Gemini: APR article 22

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Apr 232010
 

Next up from the original print run of APR is a 19-page article from issue V3N5 describing a number of designs that used the Gemini spacecraft for manned lunar missions… landers, orbiters and rescue craft. Article 22 can be downloaded for $3.50.

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Given the troubles of late with PayPal ordering buttons on blog postings, order it (and all the other currently available APR articles) here: http://www.up-ship.com/blog/eAPR/articles.htm

 Posted by at 11:51 am
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