Something to read on a hot summer day. Volume 10 Issue 4.

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The Space Shuttle in an alternate timeline. Early concepts for the Shuttle proposed using a crewed, reusable fly-back booster to launch the Orbiter into space. After launch, the booster would fly back to Earth for refurbishment.

The complete descent of Apollo 11, provided by the Apollo Flight Journal. AFJ and the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal are remarkable works of space history. Unfortunately Eric Jones, who started the project with the Surface Journal, recently passed away.

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Palette swap: Gemini <-> Apollo

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Space Shuttle Polaris, an alternate history take on the Shuttle based on early designs from North American Rockwell.

Landsat images from "Mission to Earth", 1976 (3/3)

Landsat images from "Mission to Earth", 1976 (2/3)

Landsat images from "Mission to Earth", 1976 (1/3)

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The Space Shuttle went through many design iterations during development. This is what the shuttle looked like in 1969. During this point in development North American Rockwell planned to use a crewed, reusable flyback booster to get the orbiter into space.

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Randoms:. 1) Apollo Applications inflatable satellite concept (unbuilt).2) Big Gemini space station logistics craft (unbuilt).3) CNSA Mengzhou and Lanyue lunar exploration stack (upcoming).4) Growth Space Station concept from the Apollo era (unbuilt)

Just saw Moonwalkers. If you have a chance and it's in your city, make sure to see it. I highly recommend it.

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Here's is the full document, including all 27 designs.