The 1970s were extremely important years for space exploration. Fresh from landing for the first time on the Moon, the Americans were hard at work trying to design reusable spacecraft for repeated ...

Hazegrayart View 3 Images View gallery - 3 images The Alexeyev/Sukhoi Albatros launch system, proposed in 1974, would have launched a Soviet space shuttle on the back of a carrier spaceplane, launched ...

This is such a wonderfully simple idea that I can't believe it hasn't been done before. It's four well-known launch vehicles, launching, but with transparent bodies so you can see the amount of fuel ...