Jan 212015
Now available: US Spacecraft Projects #02, the “Spaceplane Special.” This is done in the same style as the other US Aerospace Projects publications, but this issue is focused specifically on lifting spacecraft… and is more than twice as long as usual with more data and more diagrams.
USSP #02 includes:
- Boeing Personnel/Cargo Glider: When you have space industry, you need a space bus
- Convair Manned Orbiting Reconnaissance System: A 1958 concept for a recon spaceplane
- North American D435-1-4: The delta winged X-15A-3 (not a true spaceplane… but still, relevant)
- General Electric R-3 Lenticular Apollo: A 1962 Apollo concept for a lifting body lunar ship
- General Dynamics VL-3A: a 1966 space station logistics transport
- SRI Space Cruiser: An early 1980’s minimum manned spacecraft for the military
- Boeing Model 844-2050E Dyna Soar: The almost-built spaceplane from 1963
- Rockwell MRCC Orbiter: the do-everything concept, modified with additional rockets and propellant
USSP #02 can be downloaded as a PDF file for only $6:
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