With the proposed development of the Space Station Freedom, the need for an assured crew return capability (ACRC) has been identified. During the past 2 years within NASA, there has been an ongoing activity to establish the design requirements for such a vehicle and to identify candidate vehicle concepts that can satisfy these requirements. From this activity, three primary design reference missions and four candidate vehicle concepts have been identified. In support of this activity, the emphasis at Langley has been to assess the potential application of a lifting-body concept derived from work on the HL-10 and X-24 programs in the late sixties. A vehicle systems analysis has been completed including wind-tunnel tests, aerodynamic heating predictions, six-degree-of-freedom entry simulations, and a global landing opportunities assessment. This report summarizes the results of work at Langley over the past 2 years to define the candidate lifting-body ACRC vehicle and provides insight into potential benefits of the higher cross range of this concept in accomplishing the Space Station rescue mission.


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    Title :

    Lifting-body option for a Space Station rescue vehicle


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    Publication date :

    1989-10-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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