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Since at least in the early 20th century, single-stage-to-orbit reusable launch vehicles have existed in science fiction. In the 1970s, the first reusable launch vehicle, the Space Shuttle, was developed. However, in the 1990s, due to the program's failure to meet expectations, reusable launch vehicle concepts were reduced to prototype testing.
The NEXUS reusable rocket was a concept design created in the 1960s by a group at General Dynamics led by Krafft Arnold Ehricke. It was intended as the next leap beyond the Saturn V , carrying up to eight times more payload.
The Multi-Unit Space Transport And Recovery Device or MUSTARD, usually written as Mustard, was a reusable launch system concept that was explored by the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC) during the mid-1960s. Mustard was intended to operate as a multistage rocket, the individual stages comprising near-identical spaceplane modules.
If you love collecting cars and money is no object, it's hard to imagine any decade's vehicles are worth obsessing over more than those from the 1960s. It was the decade that brought technology ...
SERV, short for Single-stage Earth-orbital Reusable Vehicle, was a proposed space launch system designed by Chrysler's Space Division for the Space Shuttle project. SERV was radically different from the two-stage spaceplanes that almost every other competitor entered into the Shuttle development process and was never given serious consideration ...
Another early SSTO concept was a reusable launch vehicle named NEXUS which was proposed by Krafft Arnold Ehricke in the early 1960s. It was one of the largest spacecraft ever conceptualized with a diameter of over 50 metres and the capability to lift up to 2000 short tons into Earth orbit, intended for missions to further out locations in the ...
Atlas-Able (1959–1960) Thor-Agena (1959-1968) Little Joe (1959–1961) 1960s. Atlas-Agena (1960–1978) [citation needed] Thor-Ablestar (1960–1965) [citation needed] Thor-Delta (1960–1962) SM-65E Atlas (1960-1995) Mercury-Redstone Launch Vehicle (1960–1961) Atlas LV-3B (1960–1963) Scout (1961–1994) Saturn I (1961–1965) SM-65F ...
A reusable launch system (or reusable launch vehicle) is a spaceflight system or vehicle that can or is intended to be used more than once. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.