RT @mikusingularity: JAXA's crewed HTV was supposed to launch in 2020. Document from 2010: https://t.co/3TMFYITlNJ https://t.co/vbqrwZxdWD

I found a 2017 document that proposes a "Mars Aerocapture Orbiter". This figure seems to suggest "plans" for an HTV for Mars that would aerocapture into orbit. I wonder how hard this is never going to happen. https://t.co/yH01tYJVTj https://t.co/2wZBm335Ta

@TaIverd From what I can gather, the boomerang system is a free flyer that would float away from Freedom to allow for a lower microgravity environment for some experiments. Page 80 https://t.co/qMZiSgXEKL This document had only 4 downloads when I found it yesterday https://t.co/lA5BqFsQwm

Here's a 1985 concept of what the Japanese Experiment Module aboard Freedom could have been https://t.co/qMZiSgXEKL https://t.co/se481CI2EH

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JAXA's crewed HTV was supposed to launch in 2020. Document from 2010: https://t.co/3TMFYITlNJ https://t.co/vbqrwZxdWD

@AIKuni_YT @Truthful_ast The document is called "Post H-II Launch-Vehicle 'Rocket Plane'" and it's from 1989. https://t.co/CTbEZkDwEf

@Truthful_ast I've never seen this concept before. I've only seen these reusable boosters as rendered by @ansur_nied, as well as this NASDA diagram from 1996: https://t.co/42OkOP7VIj https://t.co/6RyMif313Z