Empire: Early Manned Planetary-Interplanetary Roundtrip Expeditions Part II: Lockheed Missiles And Space Studies

F. I. Ordway III et al. (1994), JBIS, 47, pp.181-190

Refcode: 1994.47.181

Abstract:

Before becoming contractually involved in the EMPIRE studies with the NASA-Marshall Space Flight Center, the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation (now, Lockheed Corporation) of Sunnyvale, California, had performed several in-house research studies germane to manned Venus and Mars fly-by missions. As early as 1960, the Lockheed Missiles and Space Division bad produced a report on space mechanics by C.M. Petty [2]. Another pertinent study, published a month later by Leighton F. Koehler, concerned the orbital parameters of a manned satellite orbiting Mars [3]. (By the early 1960s, the Lockheed Missile and Space Division had become the Lockheed Missile and Space Company whose acronym LMSC is used throughout this paper).