a history of cybernetic animals and early robots
Above: The 2-man Space Tug Extra Images sourced from here. Cancelled Projects: SLOMAR By Jos Heyman (with some help from the correspondents of the Secretprojects forum) In 1959 the US Air Force started the Space Logistics, Operations, Maintenance and Rescue (SLOMAR) study to generate preliminary designs of crewed space vehicles that could support manned …
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Astrotug in Operation – Artist's Conception The Astrotug Tugboat for Space: Spaceborne scientific laboratories and platforms for further exploration into space are an accepted concept based on established engineering techniques. Components would be fired as individual units into space, on precalculated orbits, and there assembled. To solve the major problems of how men are to …
Concept O-9: Rendezvous by Manned Utility Tug From a report compiled between 1959-61 and presented in 1961 are various concepts {Suffixed by 'O' for Orbital Rendezvous). This extract only selects those concepts that have a manipulator component. WADD TECHNICAL REPORT 60-857 LAUNCHING AND ALIGHTMENT SYSTEMS FOR AERO-SPACE VEHICLES Nelson T. Levings, Jr. Cleveland Pneumatic Industries, …
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Found in the old Boeing Historical archive some years back was a piece of artwork dated 20 Dec 1965 illustrating a “work pod” for orbital use. Space Pod sourced from here. Compare with later 1976 Boeing Space Tug concept here. See other early Space Teleoperators here. See other early Lunar and Space Robots here.
Preliminary Design Concepts • Bell Aerosystems Remora Capsule The REMORA configuration (Figure 5-15) is a small, buoy-shaped capsule 6-feet high, 3-feet in diameter, and weighing 540 pounds (leaded). This concept, proposed shout 1960, permits one astronaut to function in space while protected from the space environment. The capsule is tethered by a cable that provides …
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