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Military alternative to Mercury capsule
I was digging around on the National Reconnaissance Office's collection
of declassified documents: http://www.nro.gov/foia/declass/collections.html .... and stumbled on this pdf with a cutaway of a manned spacecraft that's based on the design of the Discoverer/Corona film return capsule: http://www.nro.gov/foia/declass/WS117L_Records/53.PDF (see page 15} Atlas-launched like Mercury, it would also have a added stage using the second stage engine of the Vanguard. Pat |
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Military alternative to Mercury capsule
Pat Flannery scribbled something like ...
I was digging around on the National Reconnaissance Office's collection of declassified documents: http://www.nro.gov/foia/declass/collections.html ... and stumbled on this pdf with a cutaway of a manned spacecraft that's based on the design of the Discoverer/Corona film return capsule: http://www.nro.gov/foia/declass/WS117L_Records/53.PDF (see page 15} Atlas-launched like Mercury, it would also have a added stage using the second stage engine of the Vanguard. I'll download that in a bit, but is this one of the Lockheed thoughts that are discussed in Space Review's pages on the Samos E-5? /dps |
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Military alternative to Mercury capsule
On 9/17/2011 12:28 PM, Snidely wrote:
Pat scribbled something like ... I was digging around on the National Reconnaissance Office's collection of declassified documents: http://www.nro.gov/foia/declass/collections.html ... and stumbled on this pdf with a cutaway of a manned spacecraft that's based on the design of the Discoverer/Corona film return capsule: http://www.nro.gov/foia/declass/WS117L_Records/53.PDF (see page 15} Atlas-launched like Mercury, it would also have a added stage using the second stage engine of the Vanguard. I'll download that in a bit, but is this one of the Lockheed thoughts that are discussed in Space Review's pages on the Samos E-5? Yup, although the layout of the capsule is different. Scott Lowther put up an article about it on his website: http://up-ship.com/blog/?p=11795 With some pages of the PDF; we are having a fun time discussing it. Amazingly, that PDF was the first thing I read on the NRO website. A lot of their declassified data are things like one page letters and such. The KH-9 “Big Bird” was put on display today, with photographing it being okay; photos and video of it he http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=1568 ....lots of gold plating and foil around the film reentry capsules. KH-8 Gambit will be revealed tonight indoors. Pat |
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