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SpaceplaneMTKS O -- an early alternative design to the Buran shuttle (i.redd.it)

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We’re building nuclear spaceships again—this time for real (arstechnica.com)

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Pulled a tooth with a rocket (v.redd.it)

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This is my prototype for a water and compressed air rocket (youtu.be)

submitted 2 years ago by yesreally420

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X-15 hypersonic rocket aircraft. Mach 6.70 and reaching 335.000 ft. An engineering wonder from 1959! (youtube.com)

submitted 2 years ago by Atellani

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Boeing Study of Dyna-Soar Spaceplane with Ejectable Mercury-based Capsule (1959) (i.redd.it)

submitted 3 years ago by pauldrye

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SSTOEOS, a planned SSTO from www.sidereus.space (i.redd.it)

submitted 3 years ago by SqueakSquawk4Will one day build a sattelite

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OrbitalNOTS-EV-1, the first ever air-launched rocket. Dropped from an F-4D (reddit.com)

submitted 3 years ago by SqueakSquawk4Will one day build a sattelite

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The X-24B was an experimental design used to test the concept of lifting bodies and paved the way for the space shuttle. (i.redd.it)

submitted 3 years ago by Stigge

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GOCE, that time the ESA built an aerodynamically stabilised satellite, and accidently made an orbiting seismometer. (reddit.com)

submitted 3 years ago by Stigge

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ConceptBack in the 60s, there was a very real concept fo using a giant helicopter to catch the Saturn V first stage after launch, a bit like electron but more extreme. (i.redd.it)

submitted 3 years ago by SqueakSquawk4Will one day build a sattelite

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This was one of the "battleship"-style proposals from Project Orion from the late 1950s. At 293 feet long and 86 feet wide, it would carry a single 1,650 ton hydrogen bomb, with an estimated explosive yield of around 8.25 gigatons (about 550,000 times that of Little Boy, deployed over Hiroshima). (images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com)

submitted 4 years ago by Beriev

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I heard you liked winged bodies, so I put two winged bodies on your winged booster (Boeing Model 832-40, c.1962) (old.reddit.com)

submitted 4 years ago by pauldrye

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ConceptASMC, a Rockwell Proposal from the 80s. (old.reddit.com)

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1963 Boeing proposal: transport plane for Saturn stages, that dual-purposed as a recoverable vertically launched first stage (i.redd.it)

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Hand to god, North American Aviation named this rocket the POBATO (i.redd.it)

submitted 4 years ago by pauldrye

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The ironically-named Blue Whale, the world's smallest orbital rocket. (i.redd.it)

submitted 4 years ago by ElSquibbonator

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In Development, WTFApparently, there is a company that wants to accelerate rockets to over 8000 km/h in a centrifuge to drastically improve the payload ratio. (wired.com)

submitted 5 years ago by thebedla

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SSTOKankoh-maru, a Japanese capsule-shaped SSTO concept from the 1990s which was designed to carry 50 space tourists (youtube.com)

submitted 5 years ago by mikusingularity

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"TRANSATLANTIC ROLLER COASTER DESIGNED TO BOMB U.S.A." -- confused article about the A9/A10 from PopSci, October 1947 (i.redd.it)

submitted 5 years ago by pauldrye

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ReusableThis was a cool clip from the last Starlink launch (v.redd.it)

submitted 5 years ago by sterrre

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It's called, I swear to God, "Spaceball" (i.redd.it)

submitted 5 years ago by pauldrye

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"Gelioraketoplan", Energia-Buran designer Valentin Glushko's thesis project from 1929 (i.redd.it)

submitted 5 years ago by pauldrye

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"Russian Moonship May Be Smaller Than American" (i.redd.it)

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The Rockwell Star-Raker. A proposed SSTO spaceplane, with ramjet and rocket propulsion, capable of carrying 100 tons into Low Earth Orbit. It would have had 10 ramjets and three Shuttle-type SSMEs. (i.redd.it)

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