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Topic: USAF PRIME reentry bodies?
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Dwayne Day
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Registered: Feb 2004
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posted 05-15-2007 05:57 PM
   
Anybody know of good sources of info on the USAF's PRIME lifting body program? They launched three vehicles atop Atlas ICBMs in the mid-1960s to determine their hypersonic flight characteristics. I have some info from books, but I'd like to find primary sources and don't know where to look. |
Chris Dubbs
Member Posts: 145
From: Edinboro, PA USA
Registered: Nov 2004
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posted 05-15-2007 07:10 PM
Dwayne,You may already be familiar with this NASA publication, but just in case ... The first chapter gives a nice overview of this subject, and the bibliography cites several primary sources. SP-4221 Space Shuttle Decision
http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4221/contents.htm Chapter 1. Space Stations and Winged Rockets. The Collier's Series.
Background to the Space Station.
Winged Rockets: The Work of Eugen Sanger.
Navaho and the Main Line of American Liquid Rocketry.
The X-15: An Airplane for Hypersonic Research.
Lifting Bodies: Wingless Winged Rockets.
Solid-Propellant Rockets: Inexpensive Boosters.
Dyna-Soar: A Failure in Evolution.
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art540
Member Posts: 432
From: Orange, California USA
Registered: Sep 2006
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posted 05-15-2007 07:12 PM
Dwayne: Do you need any images of PRIME?Art |
Dwayne Day
Member Posts: 532
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Registered: Feb 2004
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posted 05-16-2007 08:19 AM
Thanks. I found several good references in Jenkins' shuttle book, including what looks like an internal USAF history of the program. Now I simply need to find those documents.As for images, yes, if you have anything, I'd appreciate it. I located a number of really nice images of the vehicle (about 10 of them), but have not acquired them yet. |
heng44
Member Posts: 3387
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 05-16-2007 10:32 AM
Joel Powell and myself did a very nice article (if I say so myself) on ASSET and PRIME in the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, vol.36, pp.369-376, 1983.I have some interesting photos as well. Ed Hengeveld |
kr4mula
Member Posts: 642
From: Cinci, OH
Registered: Mar 2006
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posted 05-16-2007 11:30 AM
Dwayne,I assume you checked the last chapter of Hallion's "Hypersonic Revolution" Vol. I? Obviously it's not access to the actual documents, but has good sources. For that matter, have you talked to Dick himself? I'd think he'd know where to get stuff, if he doesn't have it. Cheers, Kevin |
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