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. 14 …The intent was a 9- to 12-person vehicle for crew rotation that could alternatively carry…
p. 27 …became a critical heating issue for the rotating shaft attaching the fin to the body. This…
p. 37 …rocket motors to rotate upward and cause the body to also rotate, lifting off the nose…
p. 41 …Beach "Toss-Back" boosters that, after separation, rotate 180 degrees and fire their rocket motors to…
p. 50 …What is different was that the station was a rotating station to provide a fraction of…
p. 51 …Those that were pertinent to the Saturn lB and Saturn V rocket launchers and the rotating…

8 March 2010
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