Soviet Designed Air Launched Space Shuttle Rocket from a dual Fuselage Antonov An-225
Before the Stratolaunch was ever conceived, the Tupolev Bureau proposed a fully reusable replacement for the Buran Space Shuttle
The “OOS“ Which stood for Odnostupenchati Orbitalni Samolyot, (one-stage orbital plane)
Like the Stratolaunch system The shuttle would ride under the Aerospace Transport System (AKS) A Dual fuselage version of the Antonov An-225 with between 24 and 40 Jet Engines
The OSS would have a weight of 675 tons and the AKS would have a weight of 1000 tons for a total of around 1600 tons.
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False Steps: The Space Race as It Might Have Been
By Paul Drye
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