1962 NOVA: Lockheed plan for Reusable Space Rocket Launch Vehicles

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1962 NOVA: Lockheed plan for Reusable Space Rocket Launch Vehicles
1962 NOVA: Lockheed plan for Reusable Space Rocket Launch Vehicles
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CHARTS FOR NOVA INFORMATION SYSTEM STUDY
(Lockheed Missile and Space Division, July 6, 1962) Original wrappers (softcover). Approximately 33 unnumbered text pages and 38pp. of blueprint-like charts and drawings.
At the start of the Space Race, both the US and USSR converted intercontiental ballistic missiles to launch their early unmanned - and later manned - spacecraft. Such rockets, developed by the US Air Force, were expendable - used once and then abandoned as space junk.
NASA engineers, dreaming about more efficient, reusable rockets, commissioned aerospace firms to study the possibilities, both of "Transporters" to carry Astronauts to Space Stations (forerunenrs of the Space Shuttle) and a NOVA class of large, heavy rockets that could launch entire space stations or moon bases into orbit and then return to earth to be recovered using parachutes.
In the mid-1960s, as NASA and the Air Force were concentrating on the nuts and bolts of an Apollo Lunar landing, they had little interest in speculative NOVA studies such as this,  which are now rare.
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