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The National Launch System (or New Launch System) was a study authorized in 1991 by President George H.W Bush to outline alternatives to the Space Shuttle for access to Earth orbit. Shortly thereafter, NASA asked Lockheed Missiles and Space, McDonnell Douglas, and TRW to perform a ten-month study.
A series of launch vehicles was proposed, based around the proposed Space Transportation Main Engine (STME) liquid-fuel rocket engine. The STME was a simplified, expendable version of the Space Shuttle main engine (SSME). The NLS-1 was the largest of three proposed vehicles and used a modified Space Shuttle external tank for its core stage. The tank fed liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen to four STMEs attached to the bottom of the tank. A payload or second stage would then fit atop the core stage, and two detachable Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters were mounted on the sides of the core stage as on the Shuttle.

The NLS rocket was used in the Helios program which put Americans on the Martian Moon Deimos in 1996. This version launched a Space Station piece into orbit and another NLS rocket would put a manned HL-20 Personal Launch System Shuttle Lander in orbit. It would rondezvou with the Space Station piece.

Then a Saturn V would launch 3 Astronauts and the Apollo CSM would also rondezvou with the small Space Station. From there, the small station would then head to Deimos. The station would get in a Mars orbit while the 3 Astronauts launched on the Saturn V would board the HL-20 Personal Launch System Shuttle Lander

From there, they would propel themselves to Deimos and land. Deimos was where a strange probe not from Earth crashed and broke in 2 pieces. The 3 Astronauts landed, planted the flag and went to examine the probes. One of the Astronauts got an image of another one next to the main part of the probe with Mars rising in the background with the U.S flag and Lander.

They brought the probes back to Earth to be examined. They would head back to Mars to rondezvou with the small station and head back to Earth. From there, the station would stay in orbit while the lander would land at Cape Canaveral.

Description

The National Launch System (or New Launch System) was a study authorized in 1991 by President George H.W Bush to outline alternatives to the Space Shuttle for access to Earth orbit. Shortly thereafter, NASA asked Lockheed Missiles and Space, McDonnell Douglas, and TRW to perform a ten-month study.
A series of launch vehicles was proposed, based around the proposed Space Transportation Main Engine (STME) liquid-fuel rocket engine. The STME was a simplified, expendable version of the Space Shuttle main engine (SSME). The NLS-1 was the largest of three proposed vehicles and used a modified Space Shuttle external tank for its core stage. The tank fed liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen to four STMEs attached to the bottom of the tank. A payload or second stage would then fit atop the core stage, and two detachable Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters were mounted on the sides of the core stage as on the Shuttle.

The NLS rocket was used in the Helios program which put Americans on the Martian Moon Deimos in 1996. This version launched a Space Station piece into orbit and another NLS rocket would put a manned HL-20 Personal Launch System Shuttle Lander in orbit. It would rondezvou with the Space Station piece.

Then a Saturn V would launch 3 Astronauts and the Apollo CSM would also rondezvou with the small Space Station. From there, the small station would then head to Deimos. The station would get in a Mars orbit while the 3 Astronauts launched on the Saturn V would board the HL-20 Personal Launch System Shuttle Lander

From there, they would propel themselves to Deimos and land. Deimos was where a strange probe not from Earth crashed and broke in 2 pieces. The 3 Astronauts landed, planted the flag and went to examine the probes. One of the Astronauts got an image of another one next to the main part of the probe with Mars rising in the background with the U.S flag and Lander.

They brought the probes back to Earth to be examined. They would head back to Mars to rondezvou with the small station and head back to Earth. From there, the station would stay in orbit while the lander would land at Cape Canaveral.