Promoting UK involvement in the ISS: a space station lifeboat? |
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Authors: | Duncan Lunan |
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Institution: | Flat 65, Dalriada House, 56 Blythswood Court, Anderston, Glasgow G2 7PE, UK |
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Abstract: | The Space Development Council, an organisation of UK space interest groups, is calling for Britain to become re-involved in manned spaceflight. NASA previously offered UK astronaut training in return for participation in the X-38 Crew Return Vehicle, now postponed. A one-person return vehicle might provide an effective and useful alternative. Two designs have been put forward based on Waverider, at one time proposed to be the man-carrying payload for Blue Streak. The more sophisticated of the two is a flex-wing Waverider carrying a one-person escape capsule, designed for long-term on-orbit storage. |
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