CEV command module mockup interior pictures

Crew Exploration Vehicle Mockup

http://www.andrews-space.com/content...ubsection=MTk4

http://www.andrews-space.com/content...hp?photoid=112

This one looks like an interior scene from a 1950's scifi movie
http://www.andrews-space.com/content...hp?photoid=110

http://www.andrews-space.com/content...hp?photoid=108

http://www.andrews-space.com/content...hp?photoid=107

http://www.andrews-space.com/content...hp?photoid=109

"Don't delay the launch, Bellus is almost upon us!" ;-)
http://www.andrews-space.com/content...hp?photoid=111


Rusty

On 30 Jan 2006 17:39:15 -0800, "Rusty"
wrote:

This one looks like an interior scene from a 1950's scifi movie
http://www.andrews-space.com/content...hp?photoid=110

....It is. Andrews simply Photochopped a frame from "Conquest of Space"
:-P

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Crew Exploration Vehicle Mockup

http://www.andrews-space.com/content...ubsection=MTk4

http://www.andrews-space.com/content...hp?photoid=112

This one looks like an interior scene from a 1950's scifi movie
http://www.andrews-space.com/content...hp?photoid=110


LOL. Your right. My first thought was "Hey, that kind of looks like
that space ship Charlton Heston was in during Planet of The Apes."

This one looks like an interior scene from a 1950's scifi movie
http://www.andrews-space.com/content...hp?photoid=110



Blaster men, man your scopes!

Rusty wrote:
Crew Exploration Vehicle Mockup

http://www.andrews-space.com/content...ubsection=MTk4
[...]

I think their "Andrews CA1 Final Presentation" is interesting, too.

And then there is ACES/Gryphon for HTHL.

/dps

"- Options with aggressive
schedules exceed
expected funding profile;
- Mitigate with lower cost or
more realistic schedule"

How does this Alchemist stuff work?, any other source of details ?

on http://www.andrews-space.com/content...ubsection=MTA5

Gryphon™ Aerospaceplane

Andrews Space has developed the Alchemist™ Air Collection and Enrichment System (ACES) as
well as the Gryphon™ RLV architecture.

The Alchemist™ ACES technology is critical for Horizontal Takeoff, Horizontal Landing
(HTHL) RLV architectures because it eliminates the oxidizer propellant weight (roughly half the total
vehicle weight) at takeoff by generating Liquid Oxygen (LOX) from atmospheric air while flying at subsonic speeds.


On 30 Jan 2006 17:39:15 -0800, "Rusty" wrote:

Crew Exploration Vehicle Mockup

Herm
Astropics http://home.att.net/~hermperez

The Gryphon reminds me of an Estes Orbital Transport. Hell, that means
design and development work was completed by thousands of ten year old
kids in the 1970's! Nothing left to do now but build the darn thing!
Herm wrote:
How does this Alchemist stuff work?, any other source of details ?

on http://www.andrews-space.com/content...ubsection=MTA5

Gryphon™ Aerospaceplane

Andrews Space has developed the Alchemist™ Air Collection and Enrichment System (ACES) as
well as the Gryphon™ RLV architecture.

The Alchemist™ ACES technology is critical for Horizontal Takeoff, Horizontal Landing
(HTHL) RLV architectures because it eliminates the oxidizer propellant weight (roughly half the total
vehicle weight) at takeoff by generating Liquid Oxygen (LOX) from atmospheric air while flying at subsonic speeds.


On 30 Jan 2006 17:39:15 -0800, "Rusty" wrote:

Crew Exploration Vehicle Mockup

Herm
Astropics http://home.att.net/~hermperez

Herm wrote:

How does this Alchemist stuff work?, any other source of details ?

on http://www.andrews-space.com/content...ubsection=MTA5

Gryphon™ Aerospaceplane

Andrews Space has developed the Alchemist™ Air Collection and
Enrichment System (ACES) as
well as the Gryphon™ RLV architecture.

The Alchemist™ ACES technology is critical for Horizontal Takeoff,
Horizontal Landing (HTHL) RLV architectures because it eliminates
the oxidizer propellant weight (roughly half the total vehicle
weight) at takeoff by generating Liquid Oxygen (LOX) from
atmospheric air while flying at subsonic speeds.

Sounds like they're going for a LOX Squeezer. If you can get enough
air in, and enough ram compression, supposedly you can squish some
LOX out of the air. It's a pretty old idea - the same techniques was
proposed in the late '40s/early '50s to squeeze out Methane to use as
fuel.

--
Pete Stickney
Java Man knew nothing about coffee.

Peter Stickney wrote:
[ACES...]
Sounds like they're going for a LOX Squeezer. If you can get enough
air in, and enough ram compression, supposedly you can squish some
LOX out of the air. It's a pretty old idea - the same techniques was
proposed in the late '40s/early '50s to squeeze out Methane to use as
fuel.

Sounds like the variation is to do it at low speeds to use later in
high speed flight.

They want low* vehicle weight at takeoff because they are rolling down
a runway.

*relatively speaking

/dps