Imperial Brazilian Aerospace Directorate
PLAN FORM A, ENTRY 1 (12 July 1960)
Items required for Lunar landing, in intended order
- Maximum speed at maximum altitude aircraft study (reference RED)
- Solicit designs for ORANGE
- Orbital vehicle plan-form and reentry studies (reference YELLOW)
- Spacesuit design and ground testing - Hard atmospheric, soft atmospheric, mechanical
- ORANGE design selection
- Solicit designs for GREEN (reference RED results)
- ORANGE delivery
- Design expendable rocket for orbital studies off of ORANGE mothership
- GREEN design selection
- Second orbital vehicle design test series (reference BLUE); unmanned suborbital launches (BLUE I)
- Solicit designs for INDIGO
- GREEN delivery
- Manned suborbital launch series (BLUE II)
- Unmanned orbital launch series (BLUE III)
- INDIGO design selection
- Solicit designs for VIOLET and SPECTRUM (reference VIOLET, reference SPECTRUM)
- Manned orbital launch series (BLUE IV)
- INDIGO delivery
- SPECTRUM design selection
- VIOLET design selection
- SPECTRUM delivery and launch
- SPECTRUM assembly
- Unmanned lunar flyby
- VIOLET delivery and launch
- Unmanned lunar landing
- VIOLET assembly
- VIOLET manned lunar flyby
- VIOLET manned lunar landing
Out of character soundbytes, so people won't be left wondering.
RED - an X-15 clone/parallel
ORANGE - 'We need three hundred tons to sixty thousand feet. We want five hundred tons to a hundred thousand feet.'
YELLOW - lifting body research a la the X-24
GREEN - a hypertrophic Blackbird on steroids
BLUE - your basic itty-bitty space capsule - heat shield, radio, and a cavity big enough to fit a man who wasn't moving much
INDIGO - reusable lifting-body spaceplane about two-thirds the size of the Shuttle orbiter
VIOLET - a pure spacecraft with no provision for reentry; assembled in orbit rather than boosted up whole; initial concept would land on the moon in its own right.
SPECTRUM - a space station
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."
PLAN FORM A, ENTRY 1 (12 July 1960)
Items required for Lunar landing, in intended order
- Maximum speed at maximum altitude aircraft study (reference RED)
- Solicit designs for ORANGE
- Orbital vehicle plan-form and reentry studies (reference YELLOW)
- Spacesuit design and ground testing - Hard atmospheric, soft atmospheric, mechanical
- ORANGE design selection
- Solicit designs for GREEN (reference RED results)
- ORANGE delivery
- Design expendable rocket for orbital studies off of ORANGE mothership
- GREEN design selection
- Second orbital vehicle design test series (reference BLUE); unmanned suborbital launches (BLUE I)
- Solicit designs for INDIGO
- GREEN delivery
- Manned suborbital launch series (BLUE II)
- Unmanned orbital launch series (BLUE III)
- INDIGO design selection
- Solicit designs for VIOLET and SPECTRUM (reference VIOLET, reference SPECTRUM)
- Manned orbital launch series (BLUE IV)
- INDIGO delivery
- SPECTRUM design selection
- VIOLET design selection
- SPECTRUM delivery and launch
- SPECTRUM assembly
- Unmanned lunar flyby
- VIOLET delivery and launch
- Unmanned lunar landing
- VIOLET assembly
- VIOLET manned lunar flyby
- VIOLET manned lunar landing
Out of character soundbytes, so people won't be left wondering.
RED - an X-15 clone/parallel
ORANGE - 'We need three hundred tons to sixty thousand feet. We want five hundred tons to a hundred thousand feet.'
YELLOW - lifting body research a la the X-24
GREEN - a hypertrophic Blackbird on steroids
BLUE - your basic itty-bitty space capsule - heat shield, radio, and a cavity big enough to fit a man who wasn't moving much
INDIGO - reusable lifting-body spaceplane about two-thirds the size of the Shuttle orbiter
VIOLET - a pure spacecraft with no provision for reentry; assembled in orbit rather than boosted up whole; initial concept would land on the moon in its own right.
SPECTRUM - a space station
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."