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Space-related drawings and documents for saleMiscellaneous Space Programs
Now you can own high quality digital copies of some of the documents and drawings I have used in my research. PDF and image files made available on CD-ROM and, in some cases, for download, and at reasonable prices.Newest items at bottom of the page Payment by PayPal is preferred. Payment by check or money order also accepted (minimum order, $20), sent to:
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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. Price for CD-ROM, US: $15.00 Price for CD-ROM, everywhere else on Earth: $17.00 |
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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. Price for CD-ROM, US: $6 Price for CD-ROM, everywhere else on Earth: $8 |
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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:
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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! Price for CD-ROM, US: $6.00 Price for CD-ROM, everywhere else on Earth: $8.00 |
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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. Price for CD-ROM, US: $8.00 Price for CD-ROM, everywhere else on Earth: $10.00 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." Price for CD-ROM, US: $12 Price for CD-ROM, everywhere else on Earth: $14.00 |
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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. Price for CD-ROM, US: $6 Price for CD-ROM, everywhere else on Earth: $8 |
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NEW ITEM: 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). Price for CD-ROM, US: $6 Price for CD-ROM, everywhere else on Earth: $8 |
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NEW ITEM: 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. Price for CD-ROM, US: $6 Price for CD-ROM, everywhere else on Earth: $8 |
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NEW ITEM: 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. Price for CD-ROM, US: $6 Price for CD-ROM, everywhere else on Earth: $8 |
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NEW ITEM: 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. Price for CD-ROM, US: $6 Price for CD-ROM, everywhere else on Earth: $8 |
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NEW ITEM: 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. Price for CD-ROM, US: $7 Price for CD-ROM, everywhere else on Earth: $9 |
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Spacecraft related drawings and documents
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