Post-Saturn Super-Booster Collection #3
Convair Nexus & Convair Helios
$80.00 + Shipping
STATUS: IN STOCK
$80.00 + Shipping
STATUS: IN STOCK
About the Design
The Convair Nexus was aerospace visionary Krafft Ehricke's proposal for a massive heavy-lift booster that could hurl an entire space station -- or even the components for a moon base -- into space in a single launch.
Key to Ehricke's design was a combination chemical and nuclear-powered booster that was not only capable of generating up to 156 million pounds of thrust -- compared to just 7.5 million for the Saturn V -- but was reusable. For more information on this ambitious project, visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_Pwz-rF2kw The Helios was another Convair design that incorporated both chemical and nuclear propulsion...although at a much smaller scale. About the size of a Saturn V, the Helios had an initial thrust of about 1.3 million pounds and would be used principally for low-orbit launches. |
About the Model
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