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Rusty B
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From: Sacramento, CA
Registered: Oct 2004

posted 07-20-2007 02:58 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Rusty B   Click Here to Email Rusty B     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I recently discovered an Apollo CSM design that landed horizontally with X-15 like landing gear and extenable swing-wings.

In 1967 the North American Rockwell Corp. applied for an Apollo variant patent that was granted in 1971. The patent drawings show an Apollo CSM that has extendable wings and an X-15 like landing gear with forward nose wheel and rear skids. This Apollo/Shuttlecraft variant also has a cargo bay.

Click on this Google Patents link for Patent Number 3,576,298. Scroll down to see
drawings of the Apollo/Shuttle spacecraft.

Rusty - Sacramento, CA

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