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* CoolSpaceship: This timeline's take on the Space Shuttle. While the second stage is discarded, the first stage is a manned flyback booster that can use jet engines to fly back to the launch site for servicing.
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* CoolSpaceship: This timeline's take on the Space Shuttle. While Shuttle, the second stage design of which is discarded, based on that of Martin Marietta's X-24 lifting body.
** The Space Lifter, thefirst stage is a manned flyback booster that can use serves as the Space Transportation System's first stage. Derived from the Saturn V's first stage, the Lifter features the reusable F-1B as well as jet engines to fly for powered flight back to the launch site for servicing.site. It can also carry payloads aside from the orbiter with the help of the S-IVC, which itself is a new version of the Saturn V's third stage.
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* CoolSpaceship: This timeline's take on the Space Shuttle, which includes a manned flyback booster called the Space Lifter.
* ForWantOfANail: The point of divergence for this timeline is the inclusion of the Saturn INT-22 concept in the 1965 studies for a low-cost, reusable launch vehicle.
* ForWantOfANail: The point of divergence for this timeline is the inclusion of the Saturn INT-22 concept in the 1965 studies for a low-cost, reusable launch vehicle.
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* CoolSpaceship: This timeline's take on the Space Shuttle, which includes Shuttle. While the second stage is discarded, the first stage is a manned flyback booster called that can use jet engines to fly back to the Space Lifter.
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** The Lunar Transfer Vehicle, which boosts payloads into lunar orbit to help set the foundation for mankind's return to the moon.
* ForWantOfANail: The point of divergence for this timeline is the inclusion of the Saturn INT-22 concept in the 1965 studies for a low-cost, reusable launchvehicle.vehicle that could make spaceflight more affordable. This leads to the creation of a concept known as the Interim Semi-Reusable System, which ends up being chosen over the Thrust-Augmented Orbiter System (the Space Shuttle of our timeline).
** The Lunar Transfer Vehicle, which boosts payloads into lunar orbit to help set the foundation for mankind's return to the moon.
* ForWantOfANail: The point of divergence for this timeline is the inclusion of the Saturn INT-22 concept in the 1965 studies for a low-cost, reusable launch
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''Right Side Up'' is an [[AlternateHistory alternate spaceflight history]] surrounding the Space Transportation System, also known as the Space Shuttle. In this timeline, a different concept is selected for the design of the Space Shuttle. The result is a semi-reusable design that not only helps to make spaceflight relatively routine, but also helps to push space exploration forward during the later decades of the 20th century.
The thread can be found [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/right-side-up-a-history-of-the-space-transportation-system.405832/ here]].
!!This work features the following tropes:
* AlternateHistory: Focuses on an development of an alternative design to the Space Shuttle of our timeline.
* CoolSpaceship: This timeline's take on the Space Shuttle, which includes a manned flyback booster called the Space Lifter.
* ForWantOfANail: The point of divergence for this timeline is the inclusion of the Saturn INT-22 concept in the 1965 studies for a low-cost, reusable launch vehicle.
The thread can be found [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/right-side-up-a-history-of-the-space-transportation-system.405832/ here]].
!!This work features the following tropes:
* AlternateHistory: Focuses on an development of an alternative design to the Space Shuttle of our timeline.
* CoolSpaceship: This timeline's take on the Space Shuttle, which includes a manned flyback booster called the Space Lifter.
* ForWantOfANail: The point of divergence for this timeline is the inclusion of the Saturn INT-22 concept in the 1965 studies for a low-cost, reusable launch vehicle.
