Hazegrayart: TWA Moonliner animation

[FutureSpaceTourist]

The Moonliner was designed by John Hench, with the help of German rocket scientist Wernher von Braun. It resembled von Braun's V-2 rocket design but depicted what a commercial spaceliner might look like for traveling to the Moon in the faraway year of 1986.The propulsion would have come from an on-board atomic reactor

It was also an early example of modern product placement advertising by TWA's Howard Hughes teaming up with Walt Disney as the Moonliner's sponsor.

[Oersted]

Not too different from Starship, when it comes to the over-all look, tho they would have been disappointed that we are still fiddling around with chemical combustion in 2021...

[libra]

That thing certainly needed an ultra advanced nuclear engine to go all the way from Earth surface to Moon surface and back on a single stage...

[jdon759]

I wish nuclear engines had been properly developed.
BTW, doesn't NTR have too low TWR for SSTO?  What sort of cycle was this planning to use?

[DaveJ576]

I got the impression that this was never a serious proposal, thus no real technical details were ever fleshed out. Rather, it was just promotional “eye candy” from Hughes, TWA, and Disney. From what I could determine, it never even got to the low level of development that Von Braun got to with the Ferry Rocket.

[catdlr]

[Blackstar]

My own pedantic interest is that I'd like to see him tackle some of the INT Saturn versions of the late 1960s studies. Or--my biggest wish--do the entire 1969 Integrated Mars Mission.

[catdlr]

My own pedantic interest is that I'd like to see him tackle some of the INT Saturn versions of the late 1960s studies. Or--my biggest wish--do the entire 1969 Integrated Mars Mission.

Unfortunately, he recently released a series of upcoming video links (by mistake and was taken down a few hours later) of just shortened versions of his past works.  Around a dozen of them spread out over the remainder of the year. No mention of anything new.

[mike robel]

So there I was, driving in downtown Kansas City October 13, 2013 with some of my cousins when I noticed this.  It was twilight and I did not have my good camera with me.  I think I previously saw it when I was in 3rd grade (1962-1963) at Dismaland, but I suppose it could be a false memory.


You can read more here:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWA_Moonliner 



https://airlinehistory.org/aircraft/twa-moonliner/

[Blackstar]

So there I was, driving in downtown Kansas City October 13, 2013 with some of my cousins when I noticed this.  It was twilight and I did not have my good camera with me.  I think I previously saw it when I was in 3rd grade (1962-1963) at Dismaland, but I suppose it could be a false memory.

There's one in a hangar in KC as well. KC has some interesting museums. Also good barbecue.

[Blackstar]

My own pedantic interest is that I'd like to see him tackle some of the INT Saturn versions of the late 1960s studies. Or--my biggest wish--do the entire 1969 Integrated Mars Mission.

Unfortunately, he recently released a series of upcoming video links (by mistake and was taken down a few hours later) of just shortened versions of his past works.  Around a dozen of them spread out over the remainder of the year. No mention of anything new.

Yeah. But he's always surprising us.

I don't like what he did with the Nova, especially the paint scheme. And there were several Nova concepts and he could also cover. But I don't want to be a Negative Nelly--I'm happy he produces anything he does. It's like free candy.

[catdlr]