Defense Intelligence Reference Document Space Access Where We ve Been And Where We Could Go

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This Defense Intelligence Reference Document, prepared by the Defense Intelligence Agency and dated 8 March 2010, was produced under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications (AAWSA) Program. It gives a historical and technical review of how to reach space and return. It covers hypersonic gliders, air-breathing and rocket propulsion, thermodynamics and materials, and launch options. It argues that reliable, schedulable access to low Earth orbit is mainly a hardware and propulsion problem rather than a technology one.

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p. 5 …Al Draper of the AFFDL began working with a select group of aerospace firms on hypersonic…
p. 6 …Air Force was working toward an operational capability analogous to its B-S2 fleets: flight operations…
p. 9 …Individuals working on these projects were convinced that the industrial capability existed to design and fabricate…
p. 10 …Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory (AFFDL) 5 and the work of the McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Company…
p. 18 …Al Draper and his team, together with Bob Masek's team at McDonnell Douglas Astronautics, worked…
p. 29 …Astronautics Company engineers and model builders began working on an alternative approach for the leading edges…
p. 30 …a colleague, Ying-Ming Lee, who then worked at MSE in Butte, Montana, showed the author…
p. 33 …The termination of the first aerospace plane halted this work, but John Ahern 15 continued his…
p. 41 …Air Force requirements we were working with, these TAV were piloted and therefore had retractable crew…
p. 44 …to space changed, and most of this work was abandoned and discarded. One of the key…
p. 50 …The work in the mid 1960s by a number of aerospace companies set the stage for…
p. 54 …Louis part of the team prepared a work breakdown structure for servicing and maintaining an Air…

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Space Access: Where We've Been ... and Where We Could
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