No Shortage of Dreams

the story of spaceflight told through missions & programs that didn't happen - that is, the great majority of them

As Gemini Was to an Apollo Lunar Landing by 1970, So Apollo Would Be to a Permanent Lunar Base in 1980 (1968)

Cutaway of the Apollo Lunar Module (LM) showing its Ascent Stage (top) and Descent Stage (bottom). A total of six descent stages wer...

Footsteps to Mars (1993)

The ungainly contraption pictured above is a piloted Mars lander based partly on planned Space Station Freedom hardware. Boeing proposed t...

From Monolithic to Modular: NASA Establishes a Baseline Configuration for a Shuttle-Launched Space Station (1970)

Modular Shuttle-launched Station in the 1980s. Image credit: NASA. On 22 July 1969, two days after Apollo 11's triumphant landing on...

Early Apollo Mission to a Lunar Wrinkle Ridge (1968)

A network of sinuous wrinkle ridges as imaged from lunar orbit during the Apollo 15 mission. The low Sun angle causes the ridges to cast s...

Robot Rendezvous at Hadley Rille (1968)

Unmanned Lunar Roving Vehicle (ULRV). Image credit: Bendix/NASA. In May 1968, Bellcomm planners Noel Hinners, Farouk El-Baz, and A. Goet...

Electricity from Space: The 1970s DOE/NASA Solar Power Satellite Studies

Image 1 (see callout in text). Image credit: NASA. Of all the many spaceflight concepts NASA has studied with any degree of seriousness,...

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