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Preliminary Design of an Experimental World-Circling Spaceship
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A bound carbon copy report prepared by the Engineering Division at Santa Monica regarding the design and technical analysis for an orbiting satellite. Two designs are presented: one of a four-stage alcohol-liquid oxygen rocket, and the second for a two-stage rocket employing liquid hydrogen and oxygen as propellants. The report considers power plants, design alternatives, trajectories, and landing apparatus.
Purchased from Zeitlin & Ver Brugge, January 9, 1976.
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- Temple University Libraries: Special Collections Research Center
- Finding Aid Author
- Katy Rawdon, Coordinator of Technical Services
- Finding Aid Date
- November 2023
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Open for research.
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