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I Suppose here is the best place for this thread, maybe it can be stickied too.

Yesterday we had a talk about the disapperance of bobandreport's website on geocities, which had for some been THE reference list of NTRS documents, and the idea came up to start a Space PDF thread here.

So I start out with the final report on ABLE-1 which are the probes Pioneer 0, 1 and 2:

http://www.sdfo.org/stl/1958 NASA USAF Space Probes (ABLE-1) FINAL REPORT.pdf

http://www.sdfo.org/stl/1958 NASA USAF Space Probes (ABLE-1) FINAL REPORT Volume 02.pdf
 

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Today a find from DTIC which made me very happy because they put up the Manhigh III Post Flight Report online!

http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=AD259635&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf

---------- Post added at 09:48 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:31 PM ----------

Thanks to Dambuster! I tried to run Bob's page through archive.org and I actually got this:

http://web.archive.org/web/20071014061358/http://www.geocities.com/bobandrepont/spacepdf.htm

This is the version of October 14th, 2007. You only need to watch out with the links though, it will say that they are excluded from the archive by robots.txt . As the links are to the NTRS, simply paste the link of the particular document into the address bar :).
 

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Docking standards from NASA (with some model files, the format is unknown because the file is 215 MB large).
http://dockingstandard.nasa.gov/

EDIT: the large files (for deployed and stowed configurations of iLIDS) are in STL format, can be imported into Wings3D or printed out on a 3D printer :)
 
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Vulcain 2 Engine

- Vulcain 2 Engine Nozzle specs

- Vulcain 2 Engine Nozzle redesign
 

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A bit dated, but useful nevertheless - 1988 NASA Thesaurus v3 - "Definitions"

http://hdl.handle.net/2060/19890003930

"Fundamentals and Issues in Launch Vehicle Design"

http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19970026037_1997043493.pdf

I finally found this in PDF form!!! Although it's the source for Oneil's _High Frontiers_, I've always found the source material far more interesting. Again, horribly dated, but I don't know of any publication better for lubricating the imagination.

"Space Settlements: A Design Study (1977)" - http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19770014162_1977014162.pdf

EDIT:
The NASA link is dead so I'm linking the copy I posted on Scribd that can be read online or downloaded from there.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/144050551/Space-Settlements-A-Design-Study?in_collection=4257771
 
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Schematic of an OMS pod

A clear schematic of an OMS pod :
 

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"Classic NASA"

More food for thought (and a lot to digest @ 213 pages).

Lt. Col John R. London III's "LEO on the Cheap"

http://www.dunnspace.com/leo-1-10.pdf

Got some more "classics" to link for you all.

"Extraterrestrial Materials Processing and Construction final report" (1978)
476 pages
http://www.nss.org/settlement/spaceresources/1978-ExtraterrestrialMaterialsProcessingAndConstruction.pdf


"Lunar Resources Utilization for Space Construction V1 - Executive Summary" (1979) 68 pgs.
http://www.nss.org/settlement/spaceresources/1979-LunarResourcesUtilization1-Summary.pdf


"Lunar Resources Utilization for Space Construction V2 - Study Results" (1979) 486 pgs.
http://www.nss.org/settlement/spaceresources/1979-LunarResourcesUtilization2-Results.pdf


"Lunar Resources Utilization for Space Construction V3 - Appenices" (1979) 408 pgs.
http://www.nss.org/settlement/spaceresources/1979-LunarResourcesUtilization3-Appendices.pdf

I actually posted the "Lunar Resources" collection on Scribd a couple years ago, but you now need to upload something there to download so I thought I'd give these alternate links.

And finally - "Space Resources" (1992) 44 pgs -
http://www.nss.org/settlement/spaceresources/1992-SpaceResources0.pdf
 
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Actually the best pdf on Halo orbits I've seen yet, Wishbone - :thumbup:

Since you've posted on on orbits, I thought I'd share a handful of the better ones I've found pertaining to Libration Points.

"Velocity Deltas for LEO to L2, L3, L4, & L5 and LLO to L1 and L2" (1988) 56 pgs.
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19890007522_1989007522.pdf

"TRANSFER ORBITS IN THE EARTH-MOON REGULARIZED SYSTEM" (1995) 12 pgs.
www2.dem.inpe.br/prado/AASalbuq95.PDF

"Libration Point Navigation Concepts Supporting the Vision for Space Exploration" (2004) 15 pgs (inc. Lang and Meyer orbits)
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20040171406_2004168539.pdf

"TRAVELING BETWEEN THE LAGRANGIAN POINTS AND THE EARTH" (1991?) 13 pgs
http://www2.dem.inpe.br/prado/Actalagpts.PDF

"ORBIT DETERMINATION ERROR ANALYSIS AND COMPARISON OF STATION-KEEPING COSTS FOR LISSAJOUS AND HALO-TYPE LIBRATION POINT ORBITS AND SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS USING EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN TECHNIOUES" (1992?) 16 pgs
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19930015532_1993015532.pdf

"MULTI-BODY ORBIT ARCHITECTURES FOR LUNAR SOUTH POLE COVERAGE" (2006) 29 pgs.
https://engineering.purdue.edu/people/kathleen.howell.1/Publications/Conferences/GreOziHowFol_06_conf.pdf

"A Comparison of Lunar Landing Trajectory Strategies Using Numericl Simulations" (2005) 32 pgs.
http://www.agi.com/downloads/resources/white-papers/A-Comparison-of-Lunar-Landing-Trajectory-Strategies-Using-Numerical-Simulations.pdf
 

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N0mad23, this is a great help, will d/load. Don't expect anything concrete soon, but the intuition tells me I want to do a numeric orbit integrator next, since IMFD doesn't yet have the capabilities to tap into low-energy flight directly...
 

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If any of it proves useful to someone, sometime then it's all good by me!

You'll probably want to add these to your collection as well. I suspect one or two will provide keys.

"Dynamical Systems, the Three-Body Problem and Space Mission Design" (1999) 15 pgs.
http://www.gg.caltech.edu/~mwl/publications/papers/dynamicalThreeBody.pdf

"Families of Orbits in the Vacinity of the Collinear Libration Points" (2001) 19 pgs.
https://engineering.purdue.edu/people/kathleen.howell.1/Publications/Journals/How_01.pdf

"Eight Lissajous Orbits in the Earth-Moon System" (2011) 24 pgs.
http://math.u-bourgogne.fr/sqd-08/trelat.pdf

"Chapter 4 - The Numerical Algorithm to Find the Halo Orbits" 32 pgs.
http://www.jjensen.org/Scans/ch4001.pdf

"Numerical tools for the computation of homoclinic/heteroclinic orbits" (2008) 40 pgs.
http://www.astrodynamics.eu/Astrodynamics.eu/AstroconV_Talks_files/Olle-AstroconV.pdf
 
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