Aerobrakes. You mean like the balloons they used in the movie 2010 to skim across Jupiter and slingshot orbit to Europa?
Flat dishes well build a ship like the Jupiter 2. Now that would be cool.
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Aerobrakes. You mean like the balloons they used in the movie 2010 to skim across Jupiter and slingshot orbit to Europa?
Flat dishes well build a ship like the Jupiter 2. Now that would be cool.
"Back in the 60s, NASA considered modifying the Saturn V first stage (for use with the Shuttle) so that it could land back at the Cape but it was only ever a concept."
That, the Saturn V-B concept some of the Big Gemini booster designs could have kept the Saturn V alive in some respects at least. Had there been no push for a reusable shuttle--had HLLVs been pursued farther--this is what we could have had:
http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951d03496983x;view=1up;seq=447
http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951d03496983x;view=1up;seq=448
F! upgrades 1.jpg (174.33 kB, 1324x963 - viewed 24 times.)
That, the Saturn V-B concept some of the Big Gemini booster designs could have kept the Saturn V alive in some respects at least. Had there been no push for a reusable shuttle--had HLLVs been pursued farther--this is what we could have had:
http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951d03496983x;view=1up;seq=447
http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951d03496983x;view=1up;seq=448
F! upgrades 1.jpg (174.33 kB, 1324x963 - viewed 24 times.)
Video from the high-altitude abort test (Mission 9) yesterday.Capsule went well past the Karman line.
Hopefully they'll show what the view was like inside, but meanwhile, here's the view inside the New Shepard during Mission 7. I believe this is the capsule and launch vehicle's third flight as of mission 9.
Hopefully they'll show what the view was like inside, but meanwhile, here's the view inside the New Shepard during Mission 7. I believe this is the capsule and launch vehicle's third flight as of mission 9.
