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"01a0d165-71fe-7054-b92e-bb952a0af62e", "title": "Plush Bug, Economy Bug, Shoestring Bug (1961)", "url": "https://spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/2017/07/plush-bug-economy-bug-shoestring-bug.html", "published_at": "2017-07-24T04:53:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d165-71fe-7054-b92e-bb952ac67fdc", "title": "SEI Swan Song: International Lunar Resources Exploration Concept (1993)", "url": "https://spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/2017/07/sei-swan-song-international-lunar.html", "published_at": "2017-07-10T05:08:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d165-71fe-7054-b92e-bb952af93e7e", "title": "Mirror Universe: Star Trek as an Exemplar of Space-Age Popular Culture", "url": "https://spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/2017/06/dreaming-different-apollo-part-six-star.html", "published_at": "2017-06-24T20:09:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d165-b272-73bd-9d63-dbc6dc9efa39", "title": "Safeguarding the Earth from Martians: The Antaeus Report (1978-1981)", "url": "https://spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/2017/06/safeguarding-earth-from-martians.html", "published_at": "2017-06-20T13:32:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d165-b272-73bd-9d63-dbc6dca27ae2", "title": "Apollo Ends at Venus: A 1967 Proposal for Single-Launch Piloted Venus Flybys in 1972, 1973, and 1975", "url": "https://spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/2017/05/apollo-ends-at-venus-1967-proposal-for.html", "published_at": "2017-05-31T23:48:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d165-b272-73bd-9d63-dbc6dd0a198f", "title": "Venus As Proving Ground: A 1967 Proposal for a Piloted Venus Orbiter", "url": "https://spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/2017/05/venus-as-proving-ground-1967-proposal.html", "published_at": "2017-05-17T04:32:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d165-b272-73bd-9d63-dbc6dd6d9038", "title": "\"Still Under Active Consideration\": Five Proposed Earth-Orbital Apollo Missions for the 1970s (1971)", "url": "https://spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/2017/05/still-under-active-consideration-five.html", "published_at": "2017-05-11T05:55:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d165-b272-73bd-9d63-dbc6de3b6b4b", "title": "Two for the Price of One: 1980s Piloted Missions with Stopovers at Mars and Venus (1969)", "url": "https://spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/2017/04/two-for-price-of-one-1980s-piloted.html", "published_at": "2017-04-29T20:19:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d165-b272-73bd-9d63-dbc6df22a841", "title": "Geosynchronous Drift: Krafft Ehricke's Destination Mankind Apollo Mission (1972)", "url": "https://spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/2017/04/geosynchronous-drift-krafft-ehrickes.html", "published_at": "2017-04-15T05:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d165-b272-73bd-9d63-dbc6dfcaf7c1", "title": "Floaters, Armored Landers, Radar Orbiters, and Drop Sondes: Automated Probes For Piloted Venus Flybys (1967-1968)", "url": "https://spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-search-for-life-and-extended.html", "published_at": "2017-04-05T18:35:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d165-b272-73bd-9d63-dbc6e065c394", "title": "Things to Do During a Venus-Mars-Venus Piloted Flyby Mission (1968)", "url": "https://spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/2017/03/things-to-do-during-venus-mars-venus.html", "published_at": "2017-03-29T02:13:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d165-b272-73bd-9d63-dbc6e11202e6", "title": "NASA Johnson's Plan to PEP Up Shuttle/Spacelab (1981)", "url": "https://spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/2017/03/nasa-seeks-to-pep-up-shuttlespacelab.html", "published_at": "2017-03-25T18:43:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d165-b272-73bd-9d63-dbc6e1babbd3", "title": "Lunar GAS (1987)", "url": "https://spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/2017/03/lunar-gas-1987.html", "published_at": "2017-03-18T21:52:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d165-b272-73bd-9d63-dbc6e2547f97", "title": "Chronology: Space Station 1.0", "url": "https://spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/2017/03/a-chronological-presentation-space.html", "published_at": "2017-03-06T17:22:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d165-b272-73bd-9d63-dbc6e29c39fa", "title": "A 1964 Proposal for a Small Lifting-Body Shuttle with \"Staged Reentry\"", "url": "https://spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/2017/02/a-1964-proposal-for-small-lifting-body.html", "published_at": "2017-02-28T02:33:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d165-b272-73bd-9d63-dbc6e35ddd66", "title": "NASA Johnson Space Center's Shuttle II (1988)", "url": "https://spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/2017/02/nasa-johnson-space-centers-shuttle-ii.html", "published_at": "2017-02-09T05:31:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d165-b272-73bd-9d63-dbc6e3bc1b9d", "title": "As Gemini Was to an Apollo Lunar Landing by 1970, So Apollo Would Be to a Permanent Lunar Base in 1980 (1968)", "url": "https://spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/2017/01/as-gemini-was-to-apollo-lunar-landing.html", "published_at": "2017-02-01T04:48:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d165-b272-73bd-9d63-dbc6e40cace7", "title": "Footsteps to Mars (1993)", "url": "https://spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/2017/01/footsteps-to-mars-1993.html", "published_at": "2017-01-30T01:06:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d165-b272-73bd-9d63-dbc6e49d4384", "title": "From Monolithic to Modular: NASA Establishes a Baseline Configuration for a Shuttle-Launched Space Station (1970)", "url": "https://spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/2017/01/from-monolithic-to-modular-nasa.html", "published_at": "2017-01-16T20:58:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d165-b272-73bd-9d63-dbc6e50fa338", "title": "Early Apollo Mission to a Lunar Wrinkle Ridge (1968)", "url": "https://spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/2017/01/early-apollo-mission-to-lunar-wrinkle.html", "published_at": "2017-01-06T02:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d165-b272-73bd-9d63-dbc6e520203d", "title": "Robot Rendezvous at Hadley Rille (1968)", "url": "https://spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/2017/01/robot-rendezvous-at-hadley-rille-1968.html", "published_at": "2017-01-01T20:02:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d165-b272-73bd-9d63-dbc6e54da6f6", "title": "Electricity from Space: The 1970s DOE/NASA Solar Power Satellite Studies", "url": "https://spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/2016/12/energy-from-space-department-of.html", "published_at": "2016-12-25T07:49:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d165-b272-73bd-9d63-dbc6e5fced32", "title": "NASA Marshall's 1966 Plan for a NERVA-Electric Piloted Mars Mission", "url": "https://spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/2016/12/nerva-electric-mars-mission-1966.html", "published_at": "2016-12-19T05:18:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d165-b272-73bd-9d63-dbc6e6e9d958", "title": "\"A Vision of the Future\": Military Uses of the Moon and Asteroids (1983)", "url": "https://spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/2016/12/a-vision-of-future-military-uses-of.html", "published_at": "2016-12-17T22:04:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d165-b272-73bd-9d63-dbc6e7e4b95f", "title": "Victory Lap", "url": "https://spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/2016/12/dreaming-different-apollo-part-five.html", "published_at": "2016-12-02T20:29:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d165-b272-73bd-9d63-dbc6e8b10ad0", "title": "Rube Goldberg's Space Shuttle", "url": "https://spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/2016/11/rube-goldbergs-space-shuttle-1971-1972.html", "published_at": "2016-11-28T18:47:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d165-b272-73bd-9d63-dbc6e9551439", "title": "An Apollo Landing Near the Great Ray Crater Tycho (1969)", "url": "https://spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/2016/11/an-apollo-landing-near-great-ray-crater.html", "published_at": "2016-11-23T18:53:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d165-b272-73bd-9d63-dbc6e9f42e36", "title": "\"Essential Data\": A 1963 Pitch to Expand NASA's Robotic Exploration Programs", "url": "https://spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/2016/11/essential-data-1963-pitch-to-expand.html", "published_at": "2016-11-19T05:23:00+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2025

ROMBUS: Reusable Orbital Module - Booster & Utility Shuttle (1963)original ↗
2 Jun 2025

2023

Apollo-Soyuz II (1974)original ↗
8 May 2023
Testing Shuttle Manipulator Arms During Earth-Orbital Apollo Missions (1971-1972)original ↗
11 Apr 2023
Viking on the Moons of Mars (1972)original ↗
22 Mar 2023
Space Shuttle External Tank (ET) Applications: ET as Space Facility (1982)original ↗
2 Mar 2023
Nomad Explorer (1992)original ↗
21 Feb 2023
A Long Way Home: Abort from Piloted Mars and Venus Missions (1970)original ↗
25 Jan 2023
The Proper Course for Lunar Exploration (1965)original ↗
1 Jan 2023

2022

Project Hyreus (1993)original ↗
25 Oct 2022
Human Exploration Using Real-Time Robotic Operations (HERRO) (2009-2011)original ↗
16 Oct 2022
S-IVB/IU Applications: The LASS Proposal (1966)original ↗
31 Aug 2022
Reusable One-stage Orbital Space Truck (ROOST) (1962)original ↗
23 Aug 2022
A Robotic and Piloted Planetary Exploration Program for the 1970s and Early 1980s (1968)original ↗
2 Aug 2022
A Year in Orbit Using Apollo Technology: Command and Service Module for Longevity (1966)original ↗
19 Jul 2022
Chronology: Piloted Flybys 1.0original ↗
6 Mar 2022
An Unfortunate Condition: A 1967-1968 Pitch to Launch a Comet Halley Rendezvous Mission in the Late 1970soriginal ↗
26 Feb 2022

2021

MSSR as MEM (1967-1968)original ↗
23 Dec 2021
Mars Sample Return Site Selection and Sample Acquisition Study (1980)original ↗
8 Dec 2021
NASA's Planetary Joint Action Group Piloted Mars Flyby Study (1966)original ↗
28 Nov 2021
Samuel Herrick's "Outrageously Innovative" Proposal (1971)original ↗
19 Oct 2021
Engineer Special Study of the Surface of the Moon (1960-1961)original ↗
8 Jun 2021
Integral Launch and Reentry Vehicle: Triamese (1968-1969)original ↗
26 Mar 2021

2020

Electromagnetic Launching as a Major Contribution to Space-Flight (1950)original ↗
28 Nov 2020
Rendezvous Concept for Circumlunar Gemini (1965)original ↗
12 Nov 2020
Apollo to Mars & Venus: North American Aviation's 1965 Plan for Piloted Planetary Flybys in the 1970soriginal ↗
29 Sept 2020
Star-Raker (1978)original ↗
10 Sept 2020
Venus is the Best Place in the Solar System to Establish a Human Settlement (2003)original ↗
26 Aug 2020
Mars Polar Ice Sample Return (1976-1978)original ↗
7 Aug 2020
Chronology: Apollo X, Apollo Extension System, and Apollo Applications Program (AAP) 1.0original ↗
8 Jul 2020
Chronology: Asteroids, Comets, and Other Small Bodies of the Solar System 1.0original ↗
30 Jun 2020
"Wobble Angle": Characteristics of 11 Apollo-derived Artificial-Gravity Space Station Designs (1963)original ↗
1 Jun 2020
Mars Airplane (1978)original ↗
18 May 2020
To "G" Or Not to "G" (1968)original ↗
9 May 2020
The 1980s Lunar Revival: Lunar Oxygen (1983)original ↗
14 Apr 2020
Apollo Applications Program: Lunar Module Relay Experiment Laboratory (1966)original ↗
12 Mar 2020
Visions of Spaceflight: Circa 2001 (1984)original ↗
9 Feb 2020
Moon Suit: 1949original ↗
31 Jan 2020
"Without Hiatus": The Apollo Applications Program in June 1966original ↗
21 Jan 2020
Flying Brickyard Postponed: A 1972-1973 Study of an Interim Ablative Space Shuttle Heat Shieldoriginal ↗
2 Jan 2020

2019

Revival: A Piloted Mars Flyby in the 1990s (1985)original ↗
18 Dec 2019
Astronaut Telescope Servicing at Earth-Sun L2 (1999)original ↗
8 Dec 2019
Apollo Science and Sites: The Sonett Report (1963)original ↗
19 Nov 2019
Apollo Extension System Flight Mission Assignment Plan (1965)original ↗
31 Oct 2019
Riccioli Outpost (1990)original ↗
11 Oct 2019
Gemini on the Moon (1962)original ↗
1 Oct 2019
Chronology: Venus 1.0original ↗
9 Jun 2019
High Noon on the Moon (1991)original ↗
16 Mar 2019
Chronology: Apollo-to-Shuttle Transition 2.0original ↗
13 Mar 2019
The First Voyager (1967)original ↗
5 Feb 2019

2018

Purple Pigeon: Mars Multi-Rover Mission (1977)original ↗
8 Dec 2018
Exploring Mars from Pole to Pole: MESUR Network (1991)original ↗
1 Dec 2018
Near-Term and Long-Term Goals: Space Station and Lunar Base (1983-1984)original ↗
19 Nov 2018
Another Look at Staged Reentry: Janus (1962-1966)original ↗
10 Nov 2018
Keep My Memory Green: Skill Retention During Long-Duration Spaceflight (1968)original ↗
13 Sept 2018
Bridging the 1970s: Lunar Viking (1970)original ↗
28 May 2018
Saturn-Apollo Applications: Combining Missions to Save Rockets, Spacecraft, and Money (1966)original ↗
5 May 2018
Log of a Moon Expedition (1969)original ↗
11 Apr 2018
Around the Moon in 80 Hours (1958)original ↗
13 Feb 2018
Creation of an Artificial Lunar Atmosphere (1974)original ↗
5 Feb 2018
Chronology: Failure Was an Option 1.0original ↗
29 Jan 2018
Alternate History of the Space Age 1.0original ↗
22 Jan 2018

2017

What If a Shuttle Orbiter Struck a Bird? (1988)original ↗
23 Dec 2017
X-15: Lessons for Reusable Winged Spaceflight (1966)original ↗
30 Nov 2017
After Venus: Pioneer Mars Orbiter with Penetrators (1974)original ↗
18 Nov 2017
A CSM-Only Back-Up Plan for the Apollo 13 Mission to the Moon (1970)original ↗
12 Nov 2017
Chrysler's Transportation and Work Station Capsule (1965)original ↗
30 Oct 2017
Mission to the Mantle: Michael Duke's Moonrise (1999-2009)original ↗
15 Oct 2017
A New Step in Spaceflight Evolution: To Mars by Flyby-Landing Excursion Mode (1966)original ↗
28 Sept 2017
NASA Glenn Research Center's 2001 Plan to Land Humans on Mars Three Years Agooriginal ↗
9 Sept 2017
Prelude to Mars Sample Return: The Mars 1984 Mission (1977)original ↗
20 Aug 2017
Relighting the FIRE: A 1966 Proposal for Piloted Interplanetary Mission Reentry Testsoriginal ↗
12 Aug 2017
Flyby's Last Gasp: North American Rockwell's S-IIB Interplanetary Booster (1968)original ↗
28 Jul 2017
Plush Bug, Economy Bug, Shoestring Bug (1961)original ↗
24 Jul 2017
SEI Swan Song: International Lunar Resources Exploration Concept (1993)original ↗
10 Jul 2017
Mirror Universe: Star Trek as an Exemplar of Space-Age Popular Cultureoriginal ↗
24 Jun 2017
Safeguarding the Earth from Martians: The Antaeus Report (1978-1981)original ↗
20 Jun 2017
Apollo Ends at Venus: A 1967 Proposal for Single-Launch Piloted Venus Flybys in 1972, 1973, and 1975original ↗
31 May 2017
Venus As Proving Ground: A 1967 Proposal for a Piloted Venus Orbiteroriginal ↗
17 May 2017
"Still Under Active Consideration": Five Proposed Earth-Orbital Apollo Missions for the 1970s (1971)original ↗
11 May 2017
Two for the Price of One: 1980s Piloted Missions with Stopovers at Mars and Venus (1969)original ↗
29 Apr 2017
Geosynchronous Drift: Krafft Ehricke's Destination Mankind Apollo Mission (1972)original ↗
15 Apr 2017
Floaters, Armored Landers, Radar Orbiters, and Drop Sondes: Automated Probes For Piloted Venus Flybys (1967-1968)original ↗
5 Apr 2017
Things to Do During a Venus-Mars-Venus Piloted Flyby Mission (1968)original ↗
29 Mar 2017
NASA Johnson's Plan to PEP Up Shuttle/Spacelab (1981)original ↗
25 Mar 2017
Lunar GAS (1987)original ↗
18 Mar 2017
Chronology: Space Station 1.0original ↗
6 Mar 2017
A 1964 Proposal for a Small Lifting-Body Shuttle with "Staged Reentry"original ↗
28 Feb 2017
NASA Johnson Space Center's Shuttle II (1988)original ↗
9 Feb 2017
As Gemini Was to an Apollo Lunar Landing by 1970, So Apollo Would Be to a Permanent Lunar Base in 1980 (1968)original ↗
1 Feb 2017
Footsteps to Mars (1993)original ↗
30 Jan 2017
From Monolithic to Modular: NASA Establishes a Baseline Configuration for a Shuttle-Launched Space Station (1970)original ↗
16 Jan 2017
Early Apollo Mission to a Lunar Wrinkle Ridge (1968)original ↗
6 Jan 2017
Robot Rendezvous at Hadley Rille (1968)original ↗
1 Jan 2017

2016

Electricity from Space: The 1970s DOE/NASA Solar Power Satellite Studiesoriginal ↗
25 Dec 2016
NASA Marshall's 1966 Plan for a NERVA-Electric Piloted Mars Missionoriginal ↗
19 Dec 2016
"A Vision of the Future": Military Uses of the Moon and Asteroids (1983)original ↗
17 Dec 2016
Victory Laporiginal ↗
2 Dec 2016
Rube Goldberg's Space Shuttleoriginal ↗
28 Nov 2016
An Apollo Landing Near the Great Ray Crater Tycho (1969)original ↗
23 Nov 2016
"Essential Data": A 1963 Pitch to Expand NASA's Robotic Exploration Programsoriginal ↗
19 Nov 2016
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