space

Now I know the X-15 did reach space twice, however i am not here to talk about those flights. I am here to talk about the proposed concept to launch an "Advanced X-15" on a Saturn I rocket. I also wonder if this proposal is a cheaper alternative to the X-20 dyna soar.

https://falsesteps.wordpress.com/2016/03/29/vr-190-stalins-rocket/ Found this POD yesterday, summed up it details Soviet designs for a modified Soviet clone of the V2 to put men into space. Stalin checked off on the endeavour in 1946 but the program got held up in bureaucracy and forgotten. The...

Hi. First post, though I've been a lurker for a while. I've been fascinated by Project Orion, a proposal for nuclear pulse propulsion from the 1950s. It would've been so much better than chemical rockets, with weight being no object pretty much. Certainly, it would have made space travel much...

May 12th, 1991 Low Earth Orbit The spacecraft glistened as the first rays of light slowly began to brighten the vehicle from the darkness of which she swam in. The nose began to brighten up first, the black of the nose and gray of the tiles giving way to the white that enveloped the entire...

The challenge is instead of an Operation Paperclip or recruited by Soviet or even Nasser's Egypt, most of German scientists who worked in Peenemunde facility in Second World War for the Third Reich move to newly-founded Republic of Indonesia and able to jumpstart a genuine space program. What...

This came from a joke suggestion I made on another website. With a PoD after the flight of Vostok 1, have Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin become the leader of either the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics or a Russian successor state thereof. You are free to arrange whatever plausible...

What if following the release of Star Wars Episode VI George Lucas, rather than the whole Ewok show he approved OTL, which was a very kid orientated and sortof poor quality show. Rather Lucas decides to go with a Anime style Star Wars series or series? The show could follow the established...

If US and USSR worked together to land in the Moon? What the impact?

"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return." --Commonly attributed to Leonardo da Vinci Truth is Life and I have been working on this for a while, and we're finally ready to...