WASHINGTON — NASA has selected 13 companies for negotiations leading to potential contract awards to conduct systems analysis and trade studies for evaluating heavy-lift launch vehicle system concepts ...
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Shuttle-C and the Orient Express, NASA’s post-Challenger plan for a heavy-lift cargo shuttle and a Mach 25 spaceplane
After Challenger reshaped NASA’s risk tolerance, the agency quietly explored two ambitious ways to keep American spaceflight alive without astronauts on board. From Shuttle-C’s heavy-lift cargo ...
As the global appetite for orbital launches continues to grow, the competition among new and old space companies to build bigger and better launch vehicles is firing up. It can be hard to keep up with ...
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NASA’s forgotten Shuttle-C plan, the uncrewed heavy-lift shuttle that could have built Mars ships in orbit
After Challenger, NASA explored a radical idea: keep the shuttle stack, remove the crewed orbiter, and create an uncrewed heavy-lift cargo vehicle. Shuttle-C promised massive payloads for the Moon and ...
WASHINGTON — NASA has issued a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) seeking proposals and industry input on heavy-lift system concepts and propulsion technology. NASA is seeking an innovative path for ...
In person, Canaveral National Seashore is the closest spot to view liftoff because it is almost parallel to Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Visitors at NASA's Kennedy Space Center would ...
The inaugural flight of Blue Origin's New Glenn heavy-lift rocket, which will send NASA's ESCAPADE mission on its way to Mars, now has a tentative launch date. NASA announced on Monday (Aug. 26) that ...
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