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By Francis Castanos The story of the Space Shuttle is a complicated and tortured one. So have a drink or, better yet, a shot of dark brown coffee and fasten your seat belts. It all started with the orbiter. The original Shuttle (from the summer of 1968 to the summer of 1971) was fully reusable. The first stage was the size of a 747 and somewhat like a hybrid of the (Boeing) S-IC, X-15, and Jumbo Jet. The second stage was the size of a 707. Incidentally, F-1s were considered

By Francis Castanos Let us start with this interesting link to the NASA 1959 long range plan. With perfect hindsight this basically reads as Mercury > Block I Apollo > Skylab > Block II Apollo > Apollo 8 Well... this is not exactly how it happened in our timeline, is it ? And where on Earth (or should I say, where on the Moon, lame pun fully intended) are Apollo 11 ? Or Gemini? … First let's take a look at the Saturn family of rockets. As shown at Astronautix . Back t