Space related PDF files from the Defense Technical Information Center

Space related PDF files from the Defense Technical Information Center

http://www.dtic.mil/

The Defense Dept PDF server has a Mercury-Redstone 4 Mission Report
available online (in PDF), The NASA PDF server does not. Go figure.


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Results of the Second U.S. Manned Suborbital Space Flight, July 21,
1961

http://stinet.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTR...c=GetTRDoc.pdf

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CHARACTERISTICS OF TACTICAL, STRATEGIC AND RESEARCH MISSILES - April
1957

http://stinet.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTR...c=GetTRDoc.pdf

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Missiles at the Cape: Missile Systems on Display at the Air Force Space
and Missile Museum, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida

http://stinet.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTR...c=GetTRDoc.pdf

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OPERATION HARDTACK. Project 9.3A. Operation of Missile Carrier for
Very- High-Altitude Nuclear Detonations

http://stinet.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTR...c=GetTRDoc.pdf

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The Development of Ballistic Missiles in the United States Air Force,
1945-1960

http://stinet.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTR...c=GetTRDoc.pdf

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Feasibility of Third World Advanced Ballistic and Cruise Missile
Threat. Volume 1: Long Range Ballistic Missile Threat

http://stinet.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTR...c=GetTRDoc.pdf

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To Defend and Deter: The Legacy of the United States Cold War Missile
Program

http://stinet.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTR...c=GetTRDoc.pdf

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We Develop Missiles, Not Air! The Legacy of Early Missile, Rocket,
Instrumentation, and Aeromedical Research Development at Holloman Air
Force Base.

http://stinet.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTR...c=GetTRDoc.pdf

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Searching the Skies: the Legacy of the United States Cold War Defense
Radar Program


http://stinet.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTR...c=GetTRDoc.pdf


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Inside a Soviet ICBM Silo Complex: The SS-18 Silo Dismantlement Program
at Derzhavinsk, Kazakhstan
http://stinet.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTR...c=GetTRDoc.pdf

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Shooting Down a "Star" Program 437, the US Nuclear ASAT System and
Present-Day Copycat Killers

http://stinet.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTR...c=GetTRDoc.pdf

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Operation Fish Bowl- 1962 Nuclear Tests

http://stinet.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTR...c=GetTRDoc.pdf

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Dynamic Properties of the International Space Station throughout the
Assembly Process

http://stinet.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTR...c=GetTRDoc.pdf

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U.S. - Russian Cooperation in Space. - 1995

http://stinet.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTR...c=GetTRDoc.pdf

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The Rise and Fall of Dyna-Soar: A History of Air Force Hypersonic R&D,
1944--1963.

http://stinet.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTR...c=GetTRDoc.pdf

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History of the X-20A Dyna-Soar. Volume I.

http://stinet.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTR...c=GetTRDoc.pdf

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History of the Aeronautical Systems Division, July-December 1963.
Volume III. Termination of the X-20A Dyna-Soar

http://stinet.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTR...c=GetTRDoc.pdf

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Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Evolved Expendable Launch
Vehicle (EELV) Program

http://stinet.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTR...c=GetTRDoc.pdf

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DoD Space Test Program: Secondary Payload Planner's Guide for Use on
the EELV Secondary Payload Adapter
http://stinet.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTR...c=GetTRDoc.pdf

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Final Environmental Impact Statement Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle
Program

http://stinet.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTR...c=GetTRDoc.pdf

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Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the Evolved Expendable
Launch Vehicle Program

http://stinet.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTR...c=GetTRDoc.pdf

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Encyclopedia of U.S. Air Force Aircraft and Missile Systems. Volume 2.
Post-World War II Bombers, 1945-1973

http://stinet.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTR...c=GetTRDoc.pdf

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Encyclopedia of US Air Force Aircraft and Missile Systems. Volume 1.
Post-World War II Fighters 1945-1973,

http://stinet.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTR...c=GetTRDoc.pdf

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The Evolution of the NASA-DoD Relationship from Sputnik to the Lunar
Landing. - 1997
http://stinet.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTR...c=GetTRDoc.pdf

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History of Space Biology and Biodynamics - Holloman AFB 1946-1958

http://stinet.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTR...c=GetTRDoc.pdf

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Progress of the X-15 Research Airplane Program

http://stinet.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTR...c=GetTRDoc.pdf

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Environmental Impact Statement: Construction and Operation of Titan
IV/Centaur Launch Complex, Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.
Volume 3

http://stinet.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTR...c=GetTRDoc.pdf

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Into The Unknown Together,
The DOD, NASA and Early Spaceflight
(Mercury, Dyna Soar, Gemini, MOL, Apollo, AAP)

by Mark Erickson LT. Colonel UsAF
Air University Press
Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama

Sept 2005 - 668 pages

http://aupress.au.af.mil/Books/Erickson/erickson.pdf

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Rusty

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History of the Redstone Missile System - 1965

http://stinet.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTR...c=GetTRDoc.pdf

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The Military Utility of German Rocketry During World War II

http://stinet.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTR...c=GetTRDoc.pdf

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Final Environmental Assessment for Minuteman III Modification

http://stinet.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTR...c=GetTRDoc.pdf

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Operation HARDTACK 1, 1958
Nuclear tests Teak and Orange within the Operation Hardtack series
involve
high altitude nuclear bursts delivered by Redstone missiles

http://stinet.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTR...c=GetTRDoc.pdf

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Operation HARDTACK
Technical Summary of Military Effects Programs 1 - 9, Sanitized Version

Nuclear tests Teak and Orange within the Operation Hardtack series
involve
high altitude nuclear bursts delivered by Redstone missiles (pg 218
Teak & Orange tests)

http://stinet.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTR...c=GetTRDoc.pdf

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Military Man in Space: A History of Air Force Efforts to Find a Manned
Space Mission

http://stinet.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTR...c=GetTRDoc.pdf

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MOL Preliminary Data Report of the MOL Protuberance Heat Transfer Test
(1AL1). Volume 1.

Data Item Number UT-132

http://stinet.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTR...c=GetTRDoc.pdf

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Rusty wrote:

Space related PDF files from the Defense Technical Information Center

http://www.dtic.mil/




Boy, but can you find some great stuff...this is going to be a ball to
go through.
Kudos!

Pat

Pat Flannery wrote:
Rusty wrote:

Space related PDF files from the Defense Technical Information Center

http://www.dtic.mil/




Boy, but can you find some great stuff...this is going to be a ball to
go through.
Kudos!

Pat

Check out the 1957, once "CONFIDENTIAL", missile coloring book.....

CHARACTERISTICS OF TACTICAL, STRATEGIC AND RESEARCH MISSILES - April
1957
http://stinet.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTR...c=GetTRDoc.pdf

What ever happened to the "Buck Duck", "Cannon Ball" or the "Ding
Dong"?

;-)

Rusty

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Upgrading the Space Shuttle

http://stinet.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTR...c=GetTRDoc.pdf


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Army Ordnance Satellite Program - 1958
http://stinet.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTR...c=GetTRDoc.pdf


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Operation Hardtack. Phase 2: Timing and Firing.
http://stinet.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTR...c=GetTRDoc.pdf

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A Starfish Happening. Revision A. Sanitized Version
http://stinet.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTR...c=GetTRDoc.pdf
http://www.dtic.mil/

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OPERATION DOMINIC, FISH BOWL SERIES. Project Officer's Report. Project
6.7. Debris Expansion Experiment

http://stinet.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTR...c=GetTRDoc.pdf


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Operation Dominic, Fish Bowl Series. Project Officer's Report. Project
8C
http://stinet.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTR...c=GetTRDoc.pdf


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Announced United States Nuclear Tests. July 1945 Through September
1992. Revision 14.
http://stinet.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTR...c=GetTRDoc.pdf


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Theater Ballistic Missile Targets Programmatic Environmental Assessment

Vandenberg Air Force Base, California - 1997

http://stinet.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTR...c=GetTRDoc.pdf

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Environmental Impact Statement Space Shuttle Program, Vandenberg AFB,
California.
Supplement. - July 1983

http://stinet.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTR...c=GetTRDoc.pdf



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Environmental Impact Analysis Process. Environmental Impact Statement
Space Shuttle
Program Vandenberg AFB, California - Jan 1978

http://stinet.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTR...c=GetTRDoc.pdf

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The Hypersonic Revolution. Volume 2. From Scramjet to the National
Aero-Space Plane

http://stinet.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTR...c=GetTRDoc.pdf

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The Hypersonic Revolution: Case Studies in the History of Hypersonic
Technology.
Volume 1: From Max Valier to Project PRIME (1924-1967)

http://stinet.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTR...c=GetTRDoc.pdf

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Rusty wrote:

Upgrading the Space Shuttle

http://stinet.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTR...c=GetTRDoc.pdf

In discussing the possible replacement of the Shuttle's SRBs by liquid
fly-back boosters (LFBBs), this report passes on the suggestion from
LFBB proponents that they might reduce turn-around time to three weeks
and permit flight rates of *15* per year (I presume that's for the
whole fleet, not for individual vehicles).

I find this astounding. It was written in the late 90s, when, after
many years' operation, the Shuttle fleet had never demonstrated more
than six flights per year, IIRC. Is it plausible, either now or from a
late-90s perspective, that LFBBs could have had such an impact on
turn-around time? That such high flight rates were feasible?

Rusty wrote:

Military Man in Space: A History of Air Force Efforts to Find a Manned
Space Mission

http://stinet.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTR...c=GetTRDoc.pdf

On page 49 of the above appears the following:

"The mission differences between MOL and STS [Space Transportation
System, i.e., the Shuttle] were minor. MOL would have repaired
satellites in orbit, the STS could repair in orbit or retrieve and
return the satellite to earth for repair before returning them to orbit
again."

Leaving the tortured grammar of this excerpt, since when did MOL have
any capability to repair satellites? How would it have affected
rendezvous?

On Oct 6, 3:38 pm, "Rusty" wrote:

History of the Redstone Missile System - 1965

Pages 150-152 mention an Army proposal to use the Redstone missile to
transport cargo and troops. Few details are given, but a diagram seems
to show room for about half a dozen passengers, presumably transported
over the Redstone's standard range of 175 or so miles. It reminds me
of the sub-orbital tourist rocket proposed by Aera (see
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7821861 ; Aera's own website seems to be
defunct). To have been launched from Cape Canaveral, it resembled in
many ways a Redstone at 40% scale.

Rusty wrote:


Pat Flannery wrote:

What ever happened to the "Buck Duck", "Cannon Ball" or the "Ding
Dong"?

"Buck Duck" died the True Death when the airplane it was supposed to decay
for, the B-36, was phased out of service 'bout '57.

Cannon Ball diaappeared when the Rascally French showed that you could make
an anti-tank guided missile that was small enough for a couple of guys to
hump around, didn't radiate RF all over the battlefield (Thereby giving
away the guidance team's position) and only required one operator to guide
it, rather than 2. The Army bought Nord SS.10s, ENTACs, and SS.11s
instead.

Ding Dong was another name for the AIR-2 Genie unguided nuclear Air-to-Air
rocket.

It's great to see you drinking from the DTIC firehose, Rusty.
Now - if we could just get them to rationalize their bizarre hardcopy rules.
(Like, for example, an Extremist Madrassa can order, say, the reports on the
Korean War era GUNVAL program, but I can't)
--
Pete Stickney
Without data, all you have is an opinion

Rusty wrote:

What ever happened to the "Buck Duck", "Cannon Ball" or the "Ding
Dong"?



IIRC Buck Duck evolved into Quail, Cannon Ball got canceled (I have a
drawing of this mounted on a light tank in my "Sheridan" book") and
Ding Dong's just a different name for Genie (another name was "High Card").
There are some real oddballs in that collection, including the
rocket-driven B-58 Hustler pod whose "Hustler" engine ended up being
used on the Agena. many, many, years ago some model company (Aurora?)
made a model of the B-58 that had that pod on it. The solid-fueled
Jupiter was going to be used on submarines as well as surface ships,
although that flared base means that it's not too efficient of a shape
for fitting in a launch tube. IIRC it was going to be elevated out of
the tube before launching, as the Soviets did with their original Golf
class subs missiles.

Pat