A Relocated, Relocatable Main Engine Cluster for the Space Shuttle (1975)

NASA fought a rearguard action to preserve reusability throughout the Space Shuttle design process. Just as it settled on a fully reusable design with a piloted Booster and a piloted Orbiter, both of which would carry propellants for placing the Orbiter into Earth orbit, inadequate funding support and a U.S. Air Force requirement that the […]

















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