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STUDY SUMMARY- NEXUS Concept of Large Reusable Launch Vehicle
Here's an interesting study from the AIAA summer meeting in LA in June of 1963, by Krafft Ehricke. It's a study of a large 24 million pound liftoff weight blunt-body hydrogen powered reusable launch vehicle called NEXUS, which could also be scaled up to a 48 million pound version. The idea was to put a million pounds of payload into orbit, about 4 Saturn V launches at once.
What's interesting about this proposal is that they also scale it down, and propose that reworking the Saturn V stages to a more squat 50 foot diameter would allow for a recoverable first stage splashing down with retrorockets with the engines bobbing up on top out of the water... (they didn't go into a lot of detail about the recovery of this proposal, but they did for the larger 140 foot diameter 24 million pound vehicle). SO, here's the summary of the study, pertaining to stuff of interest to rocketeers, and skipping over the bulk of the report which focused on mathematical models of reliability and cost savings and stuff... Snipped pics from the report include height comparisons of different vehicle shapes versus payload shroud size and overall height, and pics of the Saturn V-R proposal with dimensioned drawings... it would certainly make an interesting Saturn V model! Enjoy! OL JR
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And the last few pics...
Later! OL JR
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