British Secret Projects 5: Britain’s Space Shuttle

British Secret Projects 5: Britain’s Space Shuttle – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9781910809020,1910809020

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1910809020
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1910809020
• Author: Daniel Sharp 

Even as America and Russia stepped up their efforts in the early 1960s to design ever faster bombers and put men and equipment into space, Britain quietly set to work devising its own hypersonic aircraft and manned space vehicles. British Secret Projects 5: Britain’s Space Shuttle tells the story of how, from 1963 to 1966, English Electric/BAC’s Preston works secretly led the world in re-useable spacecraft design.

A huge variety of designs formed the P.42 project with more than 100 proposals for hypersonic interceptors, bombers, reconnaissance aircraft, satellite launchers, spacecraft launchers, orbital spy planes and satellite killers. The end result was the ‘Multi-Unit Space Transport And Recovery Device’ (MUSTARD), which pre-dated the USA’s Space Shuttle program by six years.

Table contents:

Chapter One: The Rise of English Electric- From the Second World War to Very High Speed Vehicles

Chapter Two: ‘Concorde-ish in Nature’

Chapter Three: Flying Into Orbit – English Electric P.42 Space Planes

Chapter Four: American Inspiration – Douglas Astro and Other Projects

Chapter Five: Multi-Unit Space Transport and Recovery Device

Chapter Six: Operations in Space

Chapter Seven: The Rivals

Chapter Eight: Later Hypersonic Designs

Chapter Nine: Making the Case for Mustard

 

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