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Miscellaneous Space Programs
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"The Story Of Peenemunde, Or What Might Have Been."
A giant compilation of reports (763 pages), translations and interviews with the German rocket scientists while under detention by the US Army in Garmish, Germany, circa 1945-1946.This covered virtually everty aspect of work at Peenemunde, from the design of the A-4 and the A-9 (including the closest I've been able to find to source documentation describing a manned A-9) to instrumentation, cannon shell designs and even mortar rounds. Given the vast amount of information in this document, the best way to describe what's in it is to provide the table of contents: Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, Page 4, Page 5, Page 6.
This is an incredibly historically significant source that, oddly, does not seem to have ever been made available before. Sadly, the quality of some of the pages leaves much to be desired, but every effort was made to provide the best-quality product possible.
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X-20 Drawing Set 2: Design Evolution
14 detailed drawings showing the evolution of the Boeing Dyna Soar glider design from 1960 to the penultimate major design revision (for final design, see X-20 drawing set 1). This includes Models 844-2005, 844-2035, 844-2042, 844-2044, 844-2046 and 844-2050. Model 844-2005 was equipped with a jet engine. Each design is shown with both a layout drawing giving top, side, front and often back views, as well as an inboard profile drawing. Scanned at 300 DPI from drawings provided via USAF FOIA... meaning quality is a bit rough in places. Overall, though, the size and detail of these drawings well exceeds anything available elsewhere.
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X-20 Drawing Set 1: Design Overview
Five large-format drawings (from NASA and USAF sources) from late in the X-20 Dyna Soar program. Includes:
8500X3200 pixel general arrangement w/top, side, front/back
11000X3300 px inboard profile. Rarely seen view shows internal arrangement of structure and equipment
6000X4200 px two-view drawing, very clear and detailed
8500X2500 px general arrangement, slightly different from above.
8000X2500 px inboard profile, slightly different from above.
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Delicately watermarked larger promo image of the X-20 general arrangement
Delicately watermarked larger promo image of the X-20 inboard profile
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Dyna Soar History Documents: 1
Three PDF format documents covering the early development of the Dyna Soar:
"Standardized Launch Vehicles for Space Application." This formerly-secret, 59 page document (from the Space Systems Division, USAF Space Command, dated 1961) describes the effort to produce a small range of standard launch vehicles for all needs, covering payloads as diverse as the SAINT I satellite interceptor, the SAINT II manned satellite interceptor, the Dyna Soar, communications satellites, the whole gamut of concepts then under study. Drawings are shown of a number of launch vehicles projected to boost Dyna Soar, incuding the Saturn I C-1, Convair Astro IV, Martin Plan C, Solid Titan II (predecessor of the Titan III) and the SLS A 388.
"Dyna Soar Characteristics summaries." This 29-page collection of Standard Aircraft Characteristics sheets for the Dyna Soar program cover the design from 14 September 1960 to program termination. Presented are three-views of the spaceplane as it evolves, the launch vehicle, trajectories, weights, capabilities. From suborbital versions using the Titan I ICBM through the Titan II and finally fully orbital versions using the Titan III.
"Review of Dyna Soar Reentry Vehicle Configuration Studies." This 31-page paper shows the designs that competed for the Dyna Soar Phase Alpha contract. These include: Avco's capsule with a large drag brake; Boeings M-1 lifting body; Boeing/General Electrics M-2b lifting body; Chance-Voughts low L/D lifting body; Boeings intermediate L/D winged spaceplane; Bells high L/D winged spaceplane; Boeing/Goodyears inflatable wing glider; Lockheeds folding wing spaceplane. All are shown with three-views, inboard profiles and launch vehicles.
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Advanced Versions of the V-2 rocket
This CD-ROM includes high-rez grayscale scans of three documents found in the National Air and Space museum archive, showing proposals for advanced versions of the German V-2 (A-4) rocket. These include:
1: "Anderung der bisherigen Flugbahncharakteristik von Ruckstossaggregetenzur Erzielung grosserer Schussweiten," a 1939 report done at Peenemunde on how to extend the gliding range of a ballistic rocket by means of wings. The design shown is essentially a flying wing version of the V-2, and is a predeccessor of the A-9 (a.k.a. A-4b) winged version.
2: "A-8 ... Entwurfsgestaltung, Leitungsberechnung und Stabilitats untersuchungen," a report on the A-8 rocket. This was to be a stretched version of the A-4 with a more powerful engine and different propellants.
3: "Bemannten Gleiter" a two-page sketch, listed as 1941 and thought to be by von Braun, showing how to fit three people into the nose of an A-9 rocket. Rarely seen stuff!
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V-2 diagrams, technical development report
This set includes three items:
"Gerät A4 (Bauseihe A)," Peenemunde drawing 5216, showing a detailed cutaway view of the entire A-4 (V-2) rocket. A very large drawing at 4940X16738 pixels. Also includes a half-scale, a fifth-scale and a 1500-pixel-long version for easier viewing and printing... along with the original "messy" scan (because I want you to know what sort of effort I'm going to here).
"Heizbehälter," Peenemunde drawing 5416B Ausf. "A," a general overview drawing of the V-2 combustion chamber. A beautiful drawing showing details of the injector cups and combustion chamber wall cross-section. 7176-9880 pixels. Also includes a half-scale, a fifth-scale and a 1500-pixel-long version for easier viewing and printing.
"Technical Data on the Development of the A4." Prepared by the Historical office of the Marshall Space Flight Center in February of 1965, this highly-illustrated 61-page report gives a good overview of all the A-series rockets from A-1 to A-10.
Delicately watermarked larger promo image of the V-2 cutaway diagram
Delicately watermarked larger promo image of the V-2 engine diagram
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X-20 Drawing Set 3: Details
Fourteen large, detailed diagrams that provide details of the design and construction of the final version of the X-20 Dyna Soar. Included are drawings covering body panels, wing panels, body internal truss structure, wing internal truss structure, nose landing gear, main landing gear, pilots compartment, equipment compartment, elevon configuration and skin panels, vertical fin configuration and skin panels, wing leading edge panel layout, left and right inboard views of the cockpit, and inboard diagram of the fuselage with internal structure (these last three diagrams are less clear than they could be, but are the best available).
BONUS: Twenty-Eight drawings and photos showing many aspects of Dyna Soar, including landing gear, cockpit, instrument panel, internal truss structure, skin panel/heat shield construction, equipment bay. Also, seven photos taken at the US Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio, showing an actual Dyna Soar auxiliary power unit, two wind tunnel models and the contents of an actual Dyna Soar "Survival Kit."
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Astrorocket Progress Report
A December, 1962 report from the Martin Company describing the Astrorocket concept. This was for an operational USAF manned reusable launch system using vertical takeoff and horizontal landing. A number of unconventional configurations and propulsion systems were studied. 67 pages, but missing a few. Appended to the report is a detailed layout drawing of the final vehicle from a later source.
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Titan III with four boosters
A 29-page brochure from United Technology Center (manufacturer of the 120-inch solid rocket motors used on the Titan III) dated August 1965 describing the "Titan IIID," a Titan using four boosters instead of two. Includes motor and vehicle performance and diagrams, alternate configurations (5 and 7 segments, 156-inch boosters and core).
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Index of Missile Launchings by Missile Program
Dated January, 1961, this 151 page report from the Air Force Missile Test Center documents missile launches at the Atlantic Missile Range (Cape Canaveral). To quote the Foreward:
The purpose of this brochure is to provide a ready reference index of missiles launched over the Atlantic Missile Range during its first ten years of operation. It contains a record of missiles launched during the period July 1950 through June 1960. Launch dates are in chronological order according to missile program. Missile numbers are also included. Highlights concerning various launchings are recorded in the remarks section. No attempt was made to give specific launch objectives or test results. The inclusion of such information would have required a classification different from the one assigned to some of the missile programs.
Meteorological rockets of the HUGO and ARCAS class and deadweight slugs used in the POLARIS program are not included. Dummy missiles, scale models, and live missiles are all included, provided a launch was intended and was accomplished.
A launch is defined as a definite lift-off of the vehicle from its launch stand after a completed pre-launch countdown with intent to launch. Vehicles that exploded on the pad during the countdown operation prior to T-time, or that exploded and burned at the time of being ignited before accomplishing lift-off, are not considered to have been launched; consequently, they are not included in this brochure.
Annex A - Tab 27 - contains data on the space probes and passenger satellites launched from the Atlantic Missile Range.
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HYLEAP Management Progress Report, June-July 1964
A Northrop presentation (NORAIR S.0. 93732, 61 pages) describing a space station logistics support vehicle, a long, flat lifting body. Includes structural details, cockpit design, boosters (Titan and Saturn) and more.
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North American Rockwell Minimum Cost Booster
From October 1968, this 48-page Space Division of North American Rockwell Corporation presentation describes a low-cost space booster designed to use unimpressive technology levels. The basic vehicle was two-stage, fueled by hydrazine and N2O4 and traded pressure-feed and pump feed. Report describes trades on main engines (designs from TRW, Aerojet and Rocketdyne are shown), payload capabilities (from 10Klbs to 100Klbs), tank materials, structural concepts, etc.
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Boeing SDIO SSTO presentations
Two presentations describing concepts for Single Stage To Orbit concepts from 1990, presented to the Strategic Defense Initiative Office. These were designs in the competition for what became the Delta Clipper. Includes VTOL designs as well as horizontal landers.
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Standard Aircraft Characteristics: early Atlas
Three PDF documents, describing the early five-engined version of the Atlas ICBM. Includes diagrams, art and all pertinent data.
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Atlas ICBM Standard Aircraft Characteristics
Five PDF documents describing five different Atlas ICBMs variants: CGM-16E, SM-65D, SM-65F, XSM-65A (a two-engine version, using the two booster engines but no sustainer) and XSM-65B.
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Manned Reusable Flyback Atlas
A 38-page PDF report by the Convair Division of General Dynamics, describing the concept for a reusable version of the Atlas booster. The first stage was given structural reinforcement, wings, jet engines, landing gear and a cockpit. The Centaur second stage was repackaged to fit within a lifting body, creating a recoverable and reusable manned "space shuttle" stage. Lots of data and numerous drawings and diagrams.
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Titan III drawings
Three drawings showing the design of the Titan III space launch vehicle. Includes:
1: A Martin drawing showing the complete vehicle sans payload section, with inboard view of the first and second stages and transstage. 18067 x 4577 pixels.
2: Martin layout drawing of the core vehicle with numerous cross-sections. 22962 x 4332 pixels
3: United Aircraft drawing 4A0020, "Rocket Motor - Flight Configuration." This drawing, from February 1964, depicts the UA-1205 solid rocket booster in its early configuration. This motor came equipped with thrust termination ports up front... a feature specifically designed for use when launching manned payloads such as the X-20 Dyna Soar. 19526 x 6747 pixels.
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MOL Briefing Drawings
An 18 page 1968 presentation package to NASA showing possibilities for Douglas MOL (Manned Orbiting Lab) configurations and experiments. Includes astronomical observatory versions of MOL, artificial gravity variants, Earth resources vehicles, resupply versions, etc.
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ASTRO
A 68-page report from the Space Systems Engineering division of Douglas Aircraft Company describing the "Advanced Spacecraft Truck/Trainer/Transport Reusable Orbiter," a fully reusable two-stage to orbit vehicle composed of two aerodynamically similar lifting bodies. Filed with drawings and technical details.
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METEOR
A 59-page report from Darrell Romick of Goodyear Aircraft Corporation describing "A Concept for a Manned Earth-Satellite Terminal Evolving From Earth-To-Orbit Ferry Rockets," dated 1956. This report (put together from several sources to maximize the image quality) describes a truly grandiose plan to build a space station 2,500 feet long, with a gravity wheel 1,500 feet in diameter, using a fully reusable three-stage ferry rocket. Each stage of the ferry rocket would be winged and manned; and while the third stage would be fully capable of recovery and reuse, the plan was to use the third stages as raw material for the construction of the giant "city in space."
The report describes both the ferry rocket and the space station in great detail. The artwork has been replaced within the report, using artwork obtained via other sources. The result is a truly fascinating look at a pre-Sputnik plan that was both technically valid and incredibly awesome.
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Launch Vehicle 9 (MOL test launch)
An 18-page paper produced at the USAF Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in advance of the launch of Titan IIIC-9, which sent a mockup of the MOL space station into orbit, topped with the GT-2 heat shield test Gemini spacecraft. This paper provides basic background info on the launch vehicle, the MOL mockup and the Gemini, complete with drawings.
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X-15 Drawings
This drawing package contains five drawings:
Three drawings of the X-15A-2 produced by the Martin Marietta Corporation in 1968 showing surface details and external ablative insulation information (about 7800X3900 pixels)
North American Aviation drawing L9360001, "Pylon Support - Ramjet Engine (Design Study)," dated 6-21-1967. Shows a side view of the X-15A-2 with a focus on the ventral fin and Airesearch ramjet. 7831X3239 pixels
North American Aviation drawing 2581-931001, "Structure Diagram - Fuselage Advanced X-15A-2," dated 4-23-1963. Shows a three-view of the A-2 configuration under the B-52 carrier aircraft wing. Shows internal arrangement, external propellant tank geometry, carry-pylon outline, as well as a ventral ramjet different from the "dummy" ramjets actually test flown.
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German Wasserfall Surface-to-Air missile drawings
Zeichnung (Drawing) SKW 970 B, dated January 23, 1945. Illustrated the W4 "Wasserfall" surface to air missile. This was somewhat of a scaled-down V-2 rocket, equipped with canards and with different propellants, designed to home in on radar beams reflected off of target aircraft. Diagram shows internal and external configurations, with detail drawings of subassemblies such as the graphite control vanes and the aerodynamic control surfaces. Includes half- and quarter-size versions of the drawing for easier viewing and printing. 9221X5801 pixels.
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