tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6633940777526327846.post5823960199014785295..comments2024-03-21T08:00:48.696-07:00Comments on No Shortage of Dreams: EMPIRE Building: Ford Aeronutronic's 1962 Plan for Piloted Mars/Venus FlybysUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6633940777526327846.post-5818310199602456082016-03-17T13:20:25.638-07:002016-03-17T13:20:25.638-07:00I have a book with a beautiful color artwork showi...I have a book with a beautiful color artwork showing a Lockheed proposal for a Empire flyby spacecraft. It is a slender craft with a spinning arm. In one end there is a kind of Apollo craft and in the other end a habitat. The book says that this craft would be launched with just one Saturn 5. I donĀ“t know how this long slender craft would fit inside a Saturn 5 nose cone. They do not mention jorgecalifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12942724675583193242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6633940777526327846.post-77967973636006463852015-07-10T00:58:35.211-07:002015-07-10T00:58:35.211-07:00David - thank you so much for the quick reply. I&#...David - thank you so much for the quick reply. I'll dust off the old HUMANS pdf. :-)Simone Odinohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03456415405405055172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6633940777526327846.post-74149515761764623792015-07-09T18:34:45.405-07:002015-07-09T18:34:45.405-07:00Hi, Simone:
That's from my book HUMANS TO MAR...Hi, Simone:<br /><br />That's from my book HUMANS TO MARS, which I just noticed is no longer listed among my sources for this post; I must have inadvertently chopped it off. Anyway, here's my sources as listed in HUMANS TO MARS:<br /><br />Chapter 3, note 32: "Part 17: Panel Discussion," Proceeding of the Symposium on Manned Planetary Missions: 1963/1964 Status (Huntsville, AL: David S. F. Portreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15818906581595028816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6633940777526327846.post-62576332836423949092015-07-09T10:32:02.497-07:002015-07-09T10:32:02.497-07:00Dave, do you have a source to point me to for your...Dave, do you have a source to point me to for your last paragraph? "Later in 1964, the Bureau of the Budget declared Nova rocket development to be of low priority, and called for NASA's post-Apollo program to be confined to Earth orbit and based on hardware developed for Apollo." It would be very useful for my research 2001-related (Ordway and the Future Projects Office)<br /><br />Simone Odinohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03456415405405055172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6633940777526327846.post-84141863921092067562015-06-30T06:57:30.021-07:002015-06-30T06:57:30.021-07:00I enjoy reading your blog so much because a) I gre...I enjoy reading your blog so much because a) I grew up during the Apollo era, b) I follow space exploration still, and c) your research is so thorough - my own work history has deep roots in forward modeling - 5-year planning and beyond, which I completely enjoy because of it's need to explain many "what ifs" as I have been laboriously grilled by my stakeholders to assess risk/Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17639020344662007725noreply@blogger.com