The Saturn-Shuttle was a preliminary concept of launching the Space Shuttle orbiter using a modified version of the first stage of the Saturn V rocket...
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lifted with just a handful of launches. The Saturn-Shuttle concept also could have eliminated the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters that ultimately precipitated...
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Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex (redirect from Apollo/Saturn V Center)
bus tours of the spaceport. The "Space Shuttle Atlantis" exhibit contains the Atlantis orbiter and the Shuttle Launch Experience, a simulated ride into...
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III family and also the Space Shuttle. In 1959, NASA's Silverstein Committee issued recommendations to develop the Saturn class launch vehicles, growing...
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required that the Space Shuttle have a 4.6 by 18 m (15 by 60 ft) payload bay. NASA evaluated the F-1 and J-2 engines from the Saturn rockets, and determined...
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Saturn IB was last flown in 1975 for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, the Shuttle development program was already well underway. However, the Shuttle did...
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F-1s in the Saturn V was 3,357 US gal (12,710 L) or 28,415 lb (12,890 kg) per second. Each F-1 engine had more thrust than three Space Shuttle Main Engines...
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Skylab (redirect from Saturn V Workshop)
was the IBM System/4Pi TC-1, a relative of the AP-101 Space Shuttle computers. The Saturn V with serial number SA-513, originally produced for the Apollo...
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Shenlong (spacecraft) (redirect from Shenlong (Chinese Space Shuttle))
Tianlong-3 (first stage) Vulcan (engines) Proposals Kankoh-maru SASSTO Saturn-Shuttle Canceled Adeline Angara Ares I (first stage) Ares V (boosters) Chang...
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Tianlong-3 (first stage) Vulcan (engines) Proposals Kankoh-maru SASSTO Saturn-Shuttle Canceled Adeline Angara Ares I (first stage) Ares V (boosters) Chang...
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building), just as NASA reused infrastructure designed for the Saturn V in the Space Shuttle program. Energia also replaced the "Vulkan" concept, which was...
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halted in 1969, only to be restarted in 1974 in response to the U.S. Space Shuttle Program. The test vehicle made its first subsonic free-flight test in 1976...
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Martin and funded by the U.S. government. The goal was to replace the Space Shuttle by developing a re-usable spaceplane that could launch satellites into...
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Hermes (spacecraft) (redirect from Hermes shuttle)
superficially similar to the American Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar and the larger Space Shuttle. In January 1985, CNES proposed to proceed with Hermes development under...
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The Shuttle-C was a study by NASA to turn the Space Shuttle launch stack into a dedicated uncrewed cargo launcher. The Space Shuttle external tank and...
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Tianlong-3 (first stage) Vulcan (engines) Proposals Kankoh-maru SASSTO Saturn-Shuttle Canceled Adeline Angara Ares I (first stage) Ares V (boosters) Chang...
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maintaining the Saturn V production line and using its large payload capacity to launch a space station in a few payloads rather than many smaller shuttle payloads...
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Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B (category Space Shuttle program)
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use. Examples of reusable spacecraft are spaceplanes (such as the Space Shuttle orbiters and the Dream Chaser) and space capsules like the SpaceX Dragon...
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need for the sort of external boosters and fuel tanks used by the Space Shuttle. But, after the composite tank failed on the test stand during fueling...
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The Sega Saturn is a home video game console developed by Sega and released on November 22, 1994, in Japan, May 11, 1995, in North America, and July 8...
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The Saturn C-3 was the third rocket in the Saturn C series studied from 1959 to 1962. The design was for a three-stage launch vehicle that could launch...
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Tianlong-3 (first stage) Vulcan (engines) Proposals Kankoh-maru SASSTO Saturn-Shuttle Canceled Adeline Angara Ares I (first stage) Ares V (boosters) Chang...
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led by Krafft Arnold Ehricke. It was intended as the next leap beyond the Saturn V, carrying up to eight times more payload. Several versions were designed...
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Ares I (category Shuttle-derived space launch vehicles)
Michoud Aerospace Factory, which was used for the Space Shuttle's External Tank and the Saturn V's S-IC first stage. At approximately US$20–25 million...
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The Space Shuttle external tank (ET) was the component of the Space Shuttle launch vehicle that contained the liquid hydrogen fuel and liquid oxygen oxidizer...
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Air Force's Titan III rocket, and it was later used by NASA for Saturn V, Space Shuttle, and Space Launch System. There are alternatives to ITL. Horizontal...
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Tianlong-3 (first stage) Vulcan (engines) Proposals Kankoh-maru SASSTO Saturn-Shuttle Canceled Adeline Angara Ares I (first stage) Ares V (boosters) Chang...
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orbital spaceflight launched from the United States since the final Space Shuttle mission in 2011, and the first ever operated by a commercial provider....
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to set foot on the Moon, and Joe Engle, later a commander of NASA Space Shuttle missions. In a 1962 proposal, NASA considered using the B-52/X-15 as a...
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