[solvegas]

Here’s one I came across on YouTube today.  This is Hazegrayart’s rendition of a Boeing 1968 study of a Saturn V-4X(U) One Million Pound Payload: The Beast.  It would’ve been comprised of four improved Saturn S-IC first stage stretched to 498 inches with 6.64 million pounds of propellant and 5 F-1 engines each and 4 S-II second stage with 5 J-2 engines and a payload shroud of 86.5 feet in diameter and 240 feet long for a payload of a million pounds.  This was basically strapping 4 Saturn V rockets together.

Insane.

I thought this thread was about FACT, not about proposals since this rocket was never built even though it would have been one impressive piece of engineering.

[solvegas]

Not ALL of the world's rockets but some of them. 

[Shadowmuse Blown]

Here’s one I came across on YouTube today.  This is Hazegrayart’s rendition of a Boeing 1968 study of a Saturn V-4X(U) One Million Pound Payload: The Beast.  It would’ve been comprised of four improved Saturn S-IC first stage stretched to 498 inches with 6.64 million pounds of propellant and 5 F-1 engines each and 4 S-II second stage with 5 J-2 engines and a payload shroud of 86.5 feet in diameter and 240 feet long for a payload of a million pounds.  This was basically strapping 4 Saturn V rockets together.

Insane.

I thought this thread was about FACT, not about proposals since this rocket was never built even though it would have been one impressive piece of engineering.

Sol, it was a fact that it was proposed.  The proposal was not a work of fiction for a sci-fi story.  It was never built but that doesn’t make it fictional, it really was proposed.  The Millennium Falcon is simply a work of fiction.  Do you not understand the difference?

[solvegas]

Here’s one I came across on YouTube today.  This is Hazegrayart’s rendition of a Boeing 1968 study of a Saturn V-4X(U) One Million Pound Payload: The Beast.  It would’ve been comprised of four improved Saturn S-IC first stage stretched to 498 inches with 6.64 million pounds of propellant and 5 F-1 engines each and 4 S-II second stage with 5 J-2 engines and a payload shroud of 86.5 feet in diameter and 240 feet long for a payload of a million pounds.  This was basically strapping 4 Saturn V rockets together.

Insane.

I thought this thread was about FACT, not about proposals since this rocket was never built even though it would have been one impressive piece of engineering.

Sol, it was a fact that it was proposed.  The proposal was not a work of fiction for a sci-fi story.  It was never built but that doesn’t make it fictional, it really was proposed.  The Millennium Falcon is simply a work of fiction.  Do you not understand the difference?

I know the Millennium Falcon is fiction. Why insult me? I thought that we only could put technology that was in use, not proposals that did not exist other than in paper. Since proposals are now part of the game, I'll post one I wanted to post before but didn't because it never became REAL.

[Shadowmuse Blown]

Here’s one I came across on YouTube today.  This is Hazegrayart’s rendition of a Boeing 1968 study of a Saturn V-4X(U) One Million Pound Payload: The Beast.  It would’ve been comprised of four improved Saturn S-IC first stage stretched to 498 inches with 6.64 million pounds of propellant and 5 F-1 engines each and 4 S-II second stage with 5 J-2 engines and a payload shroud of 86.5 feet in diameter and 240 feet long for a payload of a million pounds.  This was basically strapping 4 Saturn V rockets together.

Insane.

I thought this thread was about FACT, not about proposals since this rocket was never built even though it would have been one impressive piece of engineering.

Sol, it was a fact that it was proposed.  The proposal was not a work of fiction for a sci-fi story.  It was never built but that doesn’t make it fictional, it really was proposed.  The Millennium Falcon is simply a work of fiction.  Do you not understand the difference?

I know the Millennium Falcon is fiction. Why insult me? I thought that we only could put technology that was in use, not proposals that did not exist other than in paper. Since proposals are now part of the game, I'll post one I wanted to post before but didn't because it never became REAL.

Sounds good!

[Shadowmuse Blown]

A plastic encased photo of astronaut Charles Duke’s family, placed on the lunar surface by Duke.  A message on the other side reads: “This is the family of astronaut Duke from planet Earth, landed on the Moon, April 1972.”

I only learned of this photo this year.  I wonder what it looks like today?  Has the image been ruined by the unprotected Sun’s rays over 50 years, not to mention the intense solar heat?  I’m dubious that the image is viewable.

[TheZookie007]

Here’s one I came across on YouTube today.  This is Hazegrayart’s rendition of a Boeing 1968 study of a Saturn V-4X(U) One Million Pound Payload: The Beast.  It would’ve been comprised of four improved Saturn S-IC first stage stretched to 498 inches with 6.64 million pounds of propellant and 5 F-1 engines each and 4 S-II second stage with 5 J-2 engines and a payload shroud of 86.5 feet in diameter and 240 feet long for a payload of a million pounds.  This was basically strapping 4 Saturn V rockets together.

Insane.

It's a short rendered video but worth watching in full.


Hazegrayart, 17 June 2022: "Saturn V-4X(U) 1 Million Pound Payload: The Beast"

[TheZookie007]

And from science speculation to science fact, streaming live right now:

United Launch Alliance, 1 July 2022: "July 1 Live Broadcast: Atlas V USSF-12"

[TheZookie007]

Astrum, 25 June 2022: "Are We Close to Finding Planet 9?"


A caution though:
"The cautionary tale of 'Vulcan' should be mentioned with this however. The idea that math was so precise that it could be used to predict a planet due to perturbations within a planets orbit, it convinced a great many scientists that there was in fact a planet within the orbit of Mercury. Of course we now know there is no planet "Vulcan" (within our solar system at least!) and Mercury's orbit was explained through Einstein's determination of how gravity truly works within space-time."

[solvegas]

Early McDonnel Douglas Space Shuttle proposal. Pretty cool in my opinion. 

[Shadowmuse Blown]

Early McDonnel Douglas Space Shuttle proposal. Pretty cool in my opinion. 

Nice one.  Notice that the launcher was also meant to fly back to a runway.  Unusual wing design, though.

[Shadowmuse Blown]

Booster 7 as seen from below, with all 33 Raptor engines on the orbital launch pad.

Will it launch this month?

[TheZookie007]

Booster 7 as seen from below, with all 33 Raptor engines on the orbital launch pad.

Will it launch this month?

Apologies to anyone who has trypophobia.

[CarlTL]

Booster 7 as seen from below, with all 33 Raptor engines on the orbital launch pad.

Will it launch this month?

Apologies to anyone who has trypophobia.

Not organic so doesn't trip anything for me.

[Shadowmuse Blown]

Booster 7 as seen from below, with all 33 Raptor engines on the orbital launch pad.

Will it launch this month?

Apologies to anyone who has trypophobia.

Not organic so doesn't trip anything for me.

Oh, good.  Learned something new today!