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Luckily that one was saved, many of that series were either not saved, or were never there. BTW, can you post the title of your first link as it requires a university account to access? Never mind, the title is: The Space Station; A Fundamental Part of the Integrated Space Program. https://web.archive.org/web/20100519121815/http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19700075027_1970075027.pdf A little bonus. https://web.archive.org/web/20100519212255/http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19700018358_1970018358.pdf
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I’ve wondered about that, but documentation quoted 6 F-1s for certain and 12 J-2s from what I remember. As for the VAB problem, even these smaller NOVA vehicles wouldn’t use the VAB and crawler transport, but would instead be integrated on the launchpad (with later proposals including static firing the booster on the pad as well).
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Oh, I know what that vehicle Wikipedia is quoting and it’s not the vehicle you think it is. The 520, 396, 260 vehicle is the baseline all liquid nova vehicle that had a 6 f-1 first stage, 12 j-2 second, and 2 j-2 third stage. The vehicle where I got the dimensions, and more closely represents the C-8 vehicle can be found here https://web.archive.org/web/20100515071742/http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19740076058_1974076058.pdf
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As the Apollo Saturn update was totally incompatible with the old Apollo Saturn parts, they have been deleted. Your best bet is to get an older version that has those files and get the models, textures, and configs associated with those parts. Just be aware that you may have to rename the files, and the directories in the config/model for it to work.
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Direct flight has other advantages: One of the things that hurt Orion and Altiar bad is the abort at anytime requirement which needed significant margins for plane changes to meet up with the Orion for the polar sites that were desired. Going direct flight eliminates this concern, but the breakpoints in which this pushes LOR to being close to parity with Direct Flight in terms of mass I do not know.
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S-V is a centaur, but not the centaur D that would evolve to be what we know and love. The stage is powered by the RL10B-3 engines (20,000lbf 420 seconds) and the tank is not a true pressure stabilized tank, done so to increase insulation and dramatically increase tank pressure for boil-off reasons.
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The uprated Saturn IBs were almost exclusively pushed by Chrysler in attempt to keep the S-IB stage in production (which as with INT-18/19 require structural modifications to the stages themselves and rather significant modifications to the ground support infrastructure making them less desirable). Keeping the S-IB production was not the favored option.
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If that is the case, then the enforcement is either spotty, or has been slowly chipped away by requests. For instance take LMSC-A989142 Volume I and II under NAS8-26362 (NTRS 19740078599, 19730024039). The later is freely available on the modern day NTRS with the designation of Contractor Report (CR), and the former is only found on the Wayback machine, meaning that it was available for download on NTRS pre 2012. This second section has been confirmed to be the case for some time with the report that you were able to make public (19630045066) having long been on the NTRS database classified as Restricted, Limited Distribution, or Classified, as seen in this lovely list of NTRS numbers and titles produced in October of 2017 via FOIA https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/nasa/NASA-NTRS-Classified-1980.pdf, and most of the documents that I've been finding have been salvaged NTRS numbers from that list.
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LOST... Old concepts to project never going off paper
Jcking replied to a topic in Science & Spaceflight
An incomplete set of the McDonnell Douglas Space Shuttle Phase B System Study detailing the high cross-range delta wing orbiter (Model 050B) and high cross-range booster (Model 256-20). Please note that some of these are very large and can take some time to load (especially with slower internet speeds).