Dyna-Soar: Hypersonic Strategic Weapons SystemRobert Godwin It was a Space Shuttle with a mission - to drop a weaponpayload anywhere on Earth and to do so while approachingits target at hypersonic velocity - 18,000 miles perhour. Between 1957 and 1963 the Dyna-Soar programconsumed $430 million of the US taxpayer's money.However, it never flew. Cancelled less than two weeksafter President ...... |
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abort acceleration aerodynamic heating Aeronautics Aerospace AFSC Air Force headquarters aircraft airplane altitude angle of attack ARDC headquarters ballistic Bell Aircraft Corporation Boeing Bomi boost boost-glide booster capability Center Cmdr Command compartment concept conceptual test vehicle configuration contractor development plan Dyna Dyna-Soar office Dyna-Soar program Dyna-Soar SPO ELEVON engine equipment Figure fiscal flight control flight regime flight test funding Gemini Gemini program Gemini X glider ground launch hypersonic inertial guidance system launch vehicle loads Mach number maneuver Martin Company maximum Memo military million missile mission NACA NASA operation orbital flight orbiting laboratory PANEL payload phase pilot problems proposed range re-entry reconnaissance ROBO rocket plane Schriever SECRETARY MCNAMARA semi-ballistic Soar specific speed stage structural subj subsystems system package program temperature test program thermal Titan Titan II trajectory transition section unmanned USAF velocity weapon system wing X-20 program
References to this book
Into That Silent Sea: Trailblazers of the Space Era, 1961-1965 Francis French,Colin Burgess Limited preview - 2007 |