#Shuttle Saturn

[lonestarflight]

“To minimize development costs, NASA evaluated variations of the proven Saturn launch vehicle as booster for the Shuttle. Here the external tank is mounted on an unpiloted rocket stage, neither of them reusable. The operational cost of this concept was judged to be too high.”

Date: 1971-72

NASA ID: NASA-S-71-3878-X

San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive: 08_01045

[commodorez]

I finally finished building my LEGO Space Shuttle Discovery set, and had to find a good way to arrange it with all of my other space sets.

[laurenkmyers]

[jeffoff]

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[theofficialastronomy101]

These natural color views compare the appearance of Saturn\u2019s north-polar region in June 2013 and April 2017. The comparison shows how clearly the color of the region changed in the interval between the two views, which represents the latter half of Saturn's northern hemisphere spring.

[moabearrr]

🪐 • 𝓛𝓐 𝓛𝓐 𝓛𝓐 𝓛𝓘𝓔𝓢! • 🪐

[markmybirds]

[itsallaboutbl]

LOOK WHAT ARRIVED TODAY 🪐😍❤️

[us-ugay]

i had a variety of rocket variants too lol

[sugarcodedrena]

[ Destination: Saturn ]

When faced with vastness, you humans tend to vanish altogether.

[itsmelb]

This. Was. Insanely. Good.

[lonestarflight]

"American orbital launch vehicle. A winged recoverable Saturn S-IC stage was considered instead of solid rocket boosters after the final shuttle design was selected.

Status: Study 1972. Thrust: 33,737.90 kN (7,584,582 lbf). Gross mass: 3,161,710 kg (6,970,370 lb). Height: 107.00 m (351.00 ft). Diameter: 10.06 m (33.00 ft).

In yet another iteration of shuttle design studies, $ 2.8 million contracts were given in November 1971 to Grumman/Boeing, Lockheed, McDonnell-Douglas/Martin Marietta, and North American Rockwell. The development costs for the Phase B Prime contracts had still been over the Nixon administration's budget cap, and still further ways to reduce development cost had to be found. The studies were to run through 15 March 1972 and study lower cost booster concepts, one of them a Saturn V first stage modified to serve as a flyback booster. The study concluded that a Saturn S-IC flyback booster would need a wing with at least a 700 sq m area, would be powered by five F-1 engines and have a gross mass of 1.6 million kg. Staging would take place at 6450 kph. The vehicle would be reusable, except for the F-1 engines. The use of expendable engines was considered a drawback. The study assumed a series burn, with the shuttle orbiter igniting at altitude.

Flyaway Unit Cost $1985: 1,020.500 million."

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[laurenkmyers]

Exclusive Jeff Satur bts album content found through the QR code on the back of one of the postcards.

[jeffoff]

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[theofficialastronomy101]

Life on Europa?

[rappin-drakken]

FUCK YEAH FACEBOOK MARKETPLACE

I bought the ISS set from this guy (also his photo) a few weeks ago and he had more space sets. He said he has too many Legos and his wife wanted him to get ride of some 😂

He was happy they were going to a space nerd, so I was more than happy to take them off his hands lmao