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[[Image:PhaseB.jpg|center|NASAs Integrated Post-Apollo Program]] | [[Image:PhaseB.jpg|center|NASAs Integrated Post-Apollo Program]] | ||
==Manned/Unmanned Lunar Explorer== | |||
[[Image:MULE01.png|thumb|right|Manned/Unmanned Lunar Explorer]] | |||
[[Image:MULE07.png|thumb|right|Manned/Unmanned Lunar Explorer, used to prepare the site of a [[Moonbases|moonbase]]]] | |||
[[Image:MULE08.png|thumb|right|Manned/Unmanned Lunar Explorer, used a supply carrier]] | |||
Proposed by members of a Systems Engineering course, the Manned/Unmanned Lunar Explorer (MULE) was a two man, tracked vehicle capable of performing a variety of tasks as part of the 1980's Post-Apollo program. | |||
See: | |||
* [http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19710005036_1971005036.pdf Manned/Unmanned Lunar Explorer (MULE)] | |||
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==Reusable Nuclear Shuttle== | ==Reusable Nuclear Shuttle== | ||
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[[Image:9902064.jpg|thumb|right|Reusable Nuclear Shuttle]] | [[Image:9902064.jpg|thumb|right|Reusable Nuclear Shuttle]] | ||
[[Image:RNS | [[Image:RNS-Launch.png|thumb|right|Proposed method of launching the RNS into orbit using the Space Shuttle and an INT-21]] | ||
One of the 'backbones' of the Integrated Manned Program was the Reusable Nuclear Shuttle(RNS), a [[w:NERVA|NERVA]] based propulsion stage that could be used either to shuttle cargo between Earth and Moon, or to send men to Mars and Venus. | One of the 'backbones' of the Integrated Manned Program was the Reusable Nuclear Shuttle(RNS), a [[w:NERVA|NERVA]] based propulsion stage that could be used either to shuttle cargo between Earth and Moon, or to send men to Mars and Venus. | ||
They were to be launched into orbit either by using a Space Shuttle and Saturn INT-21 to send it up as components to be | They were to be launched into orbit either by using a Space Shuttle and Saturn INT-21 to send it up as separate components. The Space Shuttle would have carried the engine up into orbit to be mated with fuel tanks launched earlier by a Saturn INT-21. | ||
See: | See: | ||
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* [http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19770068980_1977068980.pdf Nuclear Shuttle System Definition Study. Phase III, Volume 2 Concept and feasibility analysis. Part A Class 1 Hybrid RNS. Book 1 System analysis and operations] | * [http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19770068980_1977068980.pdf Nuclear Shuttle System Definition Study. Phase III, Volume 2 Concept and feasibility analysis. Part A Class 1 Hybrid RNS. Book 1 System analysis and operations] | ||
* [http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19770070117_1977070117.pdf Nuclear Shuttle System Definition Study. Phase III, volume 2 Concept and feasibility analysis. Part A Class 1 Hybrid RNS. Book 2 System definition] | * [http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19770070117_1977070117.pdf Nuclear Shuttle System Definition Study. Phase III, volume 2 Concept and feasibility analysis. Part A Class 1 Hybrid RNS. Book 2 System definition] | ||
* [http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19770070118_1977070118.pdf Nuclear shuttle system definition study. Phase III, volume 2 Concept and feasibility analysis. Part B Class 3 RNS. Book 1 System analysis & definition] | |||
* [http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19770068978_1977068978.pdf Nuclear shuttle system definition study. Phase III, volume 2 Concept and feasibility analysis. Part B Class 3 RNS. Book 2 System definition] | |||
* [http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19710017290_1971017290.pdf Nuclear Shuttle System Definition Study. Phase III, volume 2 Concept and feasibility analysis. Part B Baseline system definition, Final report] | * [http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19710017290_1971017290.pdf Nuclear Shuttle System Definition Study. Phase III, volume 2 Concept and feasibility analysis. Part B Baseline system definition, Final report] | ||
* [http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19710018204_1971018204.pdf Nuclear flight system definition study, phase III. Volume 5 - Schedules, milestones and networks Final report] | * [http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19710018204_1971018204.pdf Nuclear flight system definition study, phase III. Volume 5 - Schedules, milestones and networks Final report] | ||
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* E.M. Grenning ''[http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19790072327_1979072327.pdf Integrated manned space flight program traffic model]'', June 4, 1970 | * E.M. Grenning ''[http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19790072327_1979072327.pdf Integrated manned space flight program traffic model]'', June 4, 1970 | ||
* T.H. Sharpe, G. Von Tiesenhausen, ''[http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19700026519_1970026519.pdf Space flight evolution]'', June 30, 1970 | * T.H. Sharpe, G. Von Tiesenhausen, ''[http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19700026519_1970026519.pdf Space flight evolution]'', June 30, 1970 | ||
* John C. Lindholm (Editor), ''[http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19710005036_1971005036.pdf Manned/Unmanned Lunar Explorer (MULE)], September 1970 | |||
* ''[http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19710018484_1971018484.pdf Nuclear Shuttle System Definition Study. Phase III, Volume 1 Executive Summary]'', May 1, 1971 | * ''[http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19710018484_1971018484.pdf Nuclear Shuttle System Definition Study. Phase III, Volume 1 Executive Summary]'', May 1, 1971 | ||
* ''[http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19770068980_1977068980.pdf Nuclear Shuttle System Definition Study. Phase III, Volume 2 Concept and feasibility analysis. Part A Class 1 Hybrid RNS. Book 1 System analysis and operations]'', May 1, 1971 | * ''[http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19770068980_1977068980.pdf Nuclear Shuttle System Definition Study. Phase III, Volume 2 Concept and feasibility analysis. Part A Class 1 Hybrid RNS. Book 1 System analysis and operations]'', May 1, 1971 | ||
* ''[http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19770070117_1977070117.pdf Nuclear Shuttle System Definition Study. Phase III, volume 2 Concept and feasibility analysis. Part A Class 1 Hybrid RNS. Book 2 System definition]'', May 1, 1971 | * ''[http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19770070117_1977070117.pdf Nuclear Shuttle System Definition Study. Phase III, volume 2 Concept and feasibility analysis. Part A Class 1 Hybrid RNS. Book 2 System definition]'', May 1, 1971 | ||
* ''[http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19710018486_1971018486.pdf Nuclear Shuttle System Definition Study. Phase III, Volume 7 - RNS project requirements]'', May 1, 1971 | * ''[http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19710018486_1971018486.pdf Nuclear Shuttle System Definition Study. Phase III, Volume 7 - RNS project requirements]'', May 1, 1971 | ||
* ''[http:// | * R.E. Bradie, J.P.B Cuffe, ''[http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19740008376_1974008376.pdf Advanced Space Engine, Preliminary Design]'', December 1, 1973 | ||
* ''[http://beyondapollo.blogspot.com/2011/01/nasas-report-to-space-task-group-1969.html Beyond Apollo, NASA's report to the Space Task Group (1969)]'' | |||
[[Category:Fictional spacecraft]] | [[Category:Fictional spacecraft]] | ||
Latest revision as of 00:14, 26 July 2011
When Apollo 17 left the moon, on the descent module was a plaque that read Here Man completed his first explorations of the moon. December 1972 AD. May the spirit of peace in which we came be reflected in the lives of all mankind.
But what were his next explorations to be like...
Manned/Unmanned Lunar Explorer
Proposed by members of a Systems Engineering course, the Manned/Unmanned Lunar Explorer (MULE) was a two man, tracked vehicle capable of performing a variety of tasks as part of the 1980's Post-Apollo program.
See:
Reusable Nuclear Shuttle
One of the 'backbones' of the Integrated Manned Program was the Reusable Nuclear Shuttle(RNS), a NERVA based propulsion stage that could be used either to shuttle cargo between Earth and Moon, or to send men to Mars and Venus.
They were to be launched into orbit either by using a Space Shuttle and Saturn INT-21 to send it up as separate components. The Space Shuttle would have carried the engine up into orbit to be mated with fuel tanks launched earlier by a Saturn INT-21.
See:
- Nuclear Shuttle System Definition Study. Phase III, Volume 1 Executive Summary
- Nuclear Shuttle System Definition Study. Phase III, Volume 2 Concept and feasibility analysis. Part A Class 1 Hybrid RNS. Book 1 System analysis and operations
- Nuclear Shuttle System Definition Study. Phase III, volume 2 Concept and feasibility analysis. Part A Class 1 Hybrid RNS. Book 2 System definition
- Nuclear shuttle system definition study. Phase III, volume 2 Concept and feasibility analysis. Part B Class 3 RNS. Book 1 System analysis & definition
- Nuclear shuttle system definition study. Phase III, volume 2 Concept and feasibility analysis. Part B Class 3 RNS. Book 2 System definition
- Nuclear Shuttle System Definition Study. Phase III, volume 2 Concept and feasibility analysis. Part B Baseline system definition, Final report
- Nuclear flight system definition study, phase III. Volume 5 - Schedules, milestones and networks Final report
- Nuclear Shuttle System Definition Study. Phase III, Volume 7 - RNS project requirements
- Reusable nuclear stage advanced structures study Quarterly report, 26 Jul. - 25 Oct. 1971
Space Shuttle (McDonnell-Douglas: ILRVS)
Another 'backbone' of the Integrated Manned Program was the Space Shuttle, a fully or parially reusable spacecraft designed to carry men and equipment to the various low Earth orbit spacestations that would be built as the program got under way.
Several different designs were considered before settling on the one currently being phased out. One such design was one proposed by McDonnell Douglas in which an enlarged HL-10 lifing body would be used to carry a 11,000kg (25,000lb), 4.6m(15ft) by 9.1m (30ft) payload into an orbit with a maximum altitude of 500km (270nm).
Called the Integrated Launch and Reentry Vehicle System (ILRVS), the shuttle and its two man crew would have been launched into orbit using a manned booster stage.
See:
References
Here are a selection of documents with information on the Integrated Manned Programme:
- North American/Rockwell, Technological Requirements Common to Manned Planetary Missions, December 7, 1967
- Boeing, Integrated Manned Interplanetary Spacecraft Concept Definition, Final Report Vol.1, Summary, January, 1968
- Boeing, Integrated Manned Interplanetary Spacecraft Concept Definition, Final Report Vol.2, System Assessment & Sensitivities, January, 1968
- Boeing, Integrated Manned Interplanetary Spacecraft Concept Definition, Final Report Vol.3(a), Systems Analysis (Missions & Operations), January, 1968
- Boeing, Integrated Manned Interplanetary Spacecraft Concept Definition, Final Report Vol.3(b), Systems Analysis (Experiment Program), January, 1968
- Boeing, Integrated Manned Interplanetary Spacecraft Concept Definition, Final Report Vol.4, System Definition, January, 1968
- Boeing, Integrated Manned Interplanetary Spacecraft Concept Definition, Final Report Vol.5, Plans & Costs, January, 1968
- Boeing, Integrated Manned Interplanetary Spacecraft Concept Definition, Final Report Vol.6, Cost Effective Subsystem Selection & Evolutionary Development, January, 1968
- J.P. Downs, W.B Thompson, A Feasible Planetary Exploration Program Through 1980, February 26, 1968
- Integral Launch and Reentry Vehicle System. Executive Summary Report, 1969
- Integral Launch And Reentry Vehicle System. Vol. 1, Configuration Design and Subsystems. Bk. 1, 1969
- Integral Launch and Reentry Vehicle System. Vol. 2, Performance, Aerodynamics, Mission and Operations., 1969
- Integral Launch and Reentry Vehicle System. Vol. 2, Technology Identification Final Report, 1969
- Integral Launch and Reentry Vehicle System Vol. 3, Plans, Costs, Schedules, Technologies., 1969
- Integral Launch and Reentry Vehicle System Vol. 4, One and a half stage configurations.
- Integral Launch and Reentry Vehicle System. Final Oral Report, 1969
- A.E. Marks Rationale for selection of a 50000 pound propulsion module in an integrated manned space flight program, July 7, 1969
- W.B. Thompson, Integrated Space Program: Manned Planetary Missions for the 1980's, August 6, 1969
- E.M. Grenning Integrated manned space flight program traffic model, June 4, 1970
- T.H. Sharpe, G. Von Tiesenhausen, Space flight evolution, June 30, 1970
- John C. Lindholm (Editor), Manned/Unmanned Lunar Explorer (MULE), September 1970
- Nuclear Shuttle System Definition Study. Phase III, Volume 1 Executive Summary, May 1, 1971
- Nuclear Shuttle System Definition Study. Phase III, Volume 2 Concept and feasibility analysis. Part A Class 1 Hybrid RNS. Book 1 System analysis and operations, May 1, 1971
- Nuclear Shuttle System Definition Study. Phase III, volume 2 Concept and feasibility analysis. Part A Class 1 Hybrid RNS. Book 2 System definition, May 1, 1971
- Nuclear Shuttle System Definition Study. Phase III, Volume 7 - RNS project requirements, May 1, 1971
- R.E. Bradie, J.P.B Cuffe, Advanced Space Engine, Preliminary Design, December 1, 1973
- Beyond Apollo, NASA's report to the Space Task Group (1969)