THE NUCLEAR POWERED SPACE SHUTTLE

If this ship goes a little bit over its 500,000 fps velocity, say 528,000 fps. This ship could make it to Mars in about 16 days.

Did the United States Mount NERVA Engines On the S-IVB?

The official story is that the Saturn-V was a chemically fueled rocket. I believe that this is a lie. The S-IVB was the third stage of the Saturn-V rocket. Some of the S-IVB's were smashed into the moon for seismic studies. Others were turned into America's first official space station known as Skylab. There were also grander plans for this upper stage. The S-IVB was going to be used as a nuclear propelled space tug. So, America could build a moon base. It would utilize the NERVA engine to perform this mission. It might even have been able to make it to Mars and back. The Saturn-V was designed to be a full blown space ship designed to explore the solar system. 

APOLLO-12 "J002E3" COMES BACK FOR A VISIT IN SEPTEMBER OF 2002.

Five of the Saturn-V's S-IVB boosters are purportedly out in a heliocentric orbit. One of the S-IVB's "J002E3" came into to orbit the Earth during the build up of America's Iraq War. It left one month after President George Bush declared "Mission Accomplished" aboard the supercarrier U.S.S. Lincoln. The suspicious timing of the S-IVB's orbit lends credibility to the notion that Apollo was in reality a cover for a military mission. It's aim was to conquer space. If America covertly built bases on the moon and Mars it could use these bases for the testing of exotic weapons. It could also give elements of the American ruling class a place to run to in the event of a nuclear war. Control of space is the ace up the sleeve of the American ruling class. In the event of nuclear war they will just leave while the American people die on Earth. 

Five the S-IVB''s are just out there somewhere. 

WAS THE ROVER PROGRAM DEVELOPING A PLASMA CORE ENGINE?

When the NERVA program was cancelled in 1973 America had just begun to publicize development of vapor core reactors known as the Nuclear Furnace. After the NERVA program was canceled the reactor vessels were "cannibalized" to make way for experiments on nuclear pumped lasers using plasma core engines. The ROVER/NERVA program supposedly employed solid core reactors. Solid core reactors would be very limited in terms of what they could do in terms of their ISP. Vapor cores or even liquid core reactors have much higher potential ISP. I suspect that upper stages of Apollo utilized nuclear engines. The Phoebus NTR produced exactly the same amount of thrust as the J-2 rocket engine. So, I don't think that this was any accident. The NERVA engines could be "cannibalized" for this purpose because it was a plasma core rocket all along.

The Staggering Real Cost Of The Blackbird SR-71

We stipulate that the Blackbird program is the nuclear powered plane Kelly Johnson was working on in the 1950's and Project PLUTO was the cover for the development of Blackbird's engines. We use the numbers mentioned in Dewar's book for Project PLUTO in our estimate knowing that a unmanned program would cost much less. So, the Blackbird being manned must have cost much more. The estimate here is low ball. We have concluded furthermore that the procurement budget of Blackbird was in part cloaked by NASA's Apollo program. 

We have recently (07 December 2019) analyzed the cost of fueling a chemically fueled Blackbird.  

This is how much the plane cost just to develop and procure. This does not include how much it cost to operate the plane. It is an outrage when you think about it. I use the CPI, Gold and Silver as indicators of inflation. In the early 60's, gold was pegged to the dollar at 35 dollars per ounce. Silver up until 1964 was what all American money could be redeemed for at any bank or store. Silver is what our coinage consisted of and each paper dollar could be exchanged for a silver coin that contained .77 of a troy ounce silver. The CPI does not include silver or gold in its estimate of inflation. I average the three of them to come up with a more reasonable estimate of inflation. 

$600,000,000 for P&W to develop the engine (Rich & Janos, 207)

$700,000,000 Project Pluto Development (Dewar 65)

$5,000,000,000 to build 240 ramjets (Dewar 65)

$8,000,000,000 for an operational wing. (Dewar 65)

$18,000,000 to develop the inlet (Rich & Janos, 211)

$161,000,000 for Lockheed to develop airframe (Rich & Janos, 227)

$1,088,000,000 to purchase 32 airframes

$867,607,000 for ANP development 1956 to 1961. 

Total $16,434,607,000

Cost per plane (A-12) 1,264,200,538.46 in 1961 Dollars, assuming that the initial thirteen A-12's constitute an operational wing. Assuming again that the 32 SR-71's constituted an another two and half operational wings then the total for the A-12 and SR-71 is
$36,126,914,692.30. This does not include the M-21 and YF-12A programs.

$134,940,000,000 Program Total 

$4,300,000,000 Per Plane CPI Inflation Adjusted Dollars
$7,053,533,987.5 Cost Per Plane in Silver Inflation Adjusted Dollars. 
$19,764,715,982.14 Cost Per Plane Gold Inflation Adjusted Dollars. 

$10,372,749,989.83 Cost Per Plane Averaging the CPI, Silver and Gold Inflation Adjusted Dollars. 

The Blackbird, $10,695,136,555.37 in July 2018 CPI adjusted dollars, was a MULTI Billion Dollar Plane! The F-22 Raptor's 339 million dollar price tag seems almost reasonable in comparison to the 1960's $513,581,468.75 cost of the Blackbird.

The $518,968,750 Blackbird was more expensive to build than the nuclear aircraft carrier Enterprise. Which cost 451 million dollars to build. So, a single Blackbird cost 14% more than CVN Enterprise.

In CPI inflation adjusted dollars the Blackbird was over ten times the price of the Raptor. The Blackbird's successor the Aurora must have had a staggering price tag as well. 

Update 17 January 2016

I found some information on the cost of the ANP and PLUTO programs reading James Dewar's book TO THE END OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM. Using this information I have updated the totals. 

I believe that the cancellation of the Project PLUTO program, on the day of Kennedy's death, had something to do with the assassination of JFK. He was set to go after the contractors that worked on the ANP. They were looking at prison time. The Blackbird, if it had been used as planned as a bomber, would have changed the game in Vietnam as well. It is unlikely there would have been a Hanoi Hilton full of American pilots, if A-12's were doing the bulk of the bombing. The price of the Blackbird program was on par with that of the Apollo program, which was also a cover for a military program. A single Blackbird cost more than the yearly defense budget for the whole of the 1960's. The Space race was in reality a race to maintain preemptive strike superiority. Throughout the 1950's the U.S. maintained a "overflight" program of the Soviet Union, utilizing Canberra bombers and U-2's. Ostensibly this program was "reconnaissance" in reality it was a psychological warfare campaign to show the Soviets that America could bomb them with impunity.  

Project PLUTO was the cover for the development of the Blackbird. The cancelation announcement takes place on the day of Kennedy's assassination. His assassination took place in Dallas home to Convair. A contractor working on the ANP program. 

Pluto 700 Million and $5 Billion [1961 dollars] for 240 ramjets (Dewar 65).

14 September 2018 Addition 

Project PLUTO was the cover for the development of the Blackbird. 

$867,607,000

13 February 2019

Extrapolating from these numbers and applying them to the 6 initial planes procured by the Air Force gives us a more startling result. The first initial planes cost in the range of $1,264,200,538.46 per plane. The first mover cost of the first six planes was truly staggering. It is no wonder Kennedy wanted to kill the plane. The per unit cost of the A12 cost nearly 3 times more than the first nuclear aircraft carrier ENTERPRISE.  

The ANP budget goes up in step with the development of the Blackbird. 

Published 23 May 1957

After work was completed on the U-2 in 1955, work began on it's successor. This plane would become the SR-71. The budget for the ANP more than doubles in this time. It jumps from $44,791,000 to $91,180,000 in the period 1955 to 1956. 83% of the money $867,607,000 spent during the fifteen years of the NEPA/ANP was spent in the last six years of the program, right in step with the development of the SR-71. Johnson gives his talk on the ANP in step with the large budgetary increase for the program.  

25 July 2019
Silver price 16,178,479,965.00 as of today. 
Gold price 39,756,452,098.9702 as of today. 

SOURCES: 

Dewar, James A. To the End of the Solar System: The Story of the Nuclear Rocket. Lexington, Ky.: U of Kentucky, 2004. Print.

Rich, B. and Janos, L. (1996). Skunk Works. Boston: Back Bay Books.

http://www.amazon.com/Skunk-Works-Personal-Memoir-Lockheed/dp/0316743003

http://www.wvi.com/~sr71webmaster/srqt~1.htm

http://fas.org/nuke/space/anp-gao1963.pdf

http://www.nv.doe.gov/library/factsheets/DOENV_763.pdf

Secret American Space Planes to Dominate Planet Earth

05.11.2002 08:00

The USA has been working on secret, new-generation space planes In the beginning of the 1990s, Russian intelligence uncovered the fact that the USA was testing a super-secret plane at one of its airbases. Russian agents attempted to see the new object with their own eyes and take pictures of it, but all attempts failed. The Americans provided incredible security for their secret weapon, and they tested the plane only at night. However, Russian agents managed to get some information about the new plane, which the USA calls Aurora, in honor of the Goddess of the Dawn.

The mystery aircraft is capable of flying very high, at a height of 40 and more kilometers. Even the latest pursuit planes cannot fly so high. The Aurora plane also possesses fantastic supersonic speed, the so-called 6M speed, as scientists call it. One M is equal to 340 meters a second. In other words, Aurora can fly at a speed of two kilometers a second, and this is not the limit. This speed is achieved due to extremely powerful engines and the special design of the plane's hull and wings.

The aircraft was constructed based on Stealth technology, which was selected by the American defense industry long ago. The technology poses great difficulties for both ground and air radar systems.

A picture of the real Aurora aircraft is even more rare than a picture of an UFO. So far, Russia has only one picture of the mysterious American plane. The picture was taken by a Russian intelligence officer at the moment when the Aurora plane was refueling in the air. Later, it became known that before the “flying tank of fuel” (KC-135 aircraft) refueled the Aurora, a spy plane flew across Russia from east to west and was not detected by any radar systems.

The Americans invented a new aircraft, which is almost like a rocket. The new plane was invented by American defense scientists with an eye towards the future. The most powerful pursuit planes can fly at heights of 35-40 kilometers. Russia is capable matching its strength with the USA in this respect. Russia has such aircraft: Su-2711, MiG-29, and MiG-31. However, these planes can only fly in the near-Earth environment, whereas the environment between the Earth’s atmosphere and space is still vacant, so to speak. That is why, the development of the near-Earth space environment weapon is so relevant for defense. Who gets there first becomes the winner.

Here, we are talking about totally new kinds of aircraft: spy planes, fighter planes, transport planes, ect. They will be able to fly from the atmosphere into space and then return to Earth. The Americans have been working on this kind of aircraft for years already, developing several “star wars” projects. The United States has been designing and testing such planes for a long time. They already have the X-33, X-34, X-37, and X-38 planes.

X-33: This supersonic aircraft was designed based upon up-to-date titanic alloys. It is equipped with oxygen-hydrogen jet engines. This plane can reach speeds up to 4,420 meters per second. Graphite and ceramic (thermostable) technologies are used in its engines. Some of this technology was either bought or stolen from Russia. The maximum flight height is 120 kilometers.

X-34: A more modern supersonic aircraft. It is equipped with unique electronic devices and has a special heat-shielding coating. One of its peculiar features is the fact that the plane takes off from an aircraft-carrier, which is also a plane, not a vessel. The X-34 can reach speeds up to 5,440 meters a second. The maximum height is up to 150 kilometers.

Supersonic aircraft of the X class can be both unmanned and piloted planes, with vertical and horizontal takeoffs. It was officially reported that such planes are meant to considerably reduce the amount of money spent on delivering cargo into space. At the present moment, one such delivery costs 22 thousand dollars per one kilo of cargo. These new aircraft will definitely serve defense purposes, such as launching military satellites into orbit. Supersonic space planes can also be equipped with super-powerful telescopes and other equipment. Scientists and engineers are developing ways to equip these planes with missiles, laser weapons, and so on.

In other words, America is working on the first ever space army, which would provide the United States with complete domination in near-Earth orbit. It will not be possible for any anti-missile defense complexes to hit such planes, as they will be completely out of reach. The American space army will be able to hit any target on planet Earth at any moment.

Soviet engineers tried to challenge the Americans and designed a unique aircraft called the Buran. Unfortunately, the aircraft proved to be unsuccessful, and competition with the USA failed. When military opposition between the USSR and the USA was over, the Buran became a part of an exhibition in Moscow’s Park of Culture. The first Soviet space aircraft became a dull memory of a bygone power and might-have-been hopes.

Major General Sergey Kolganov, an academician of the Russian Space Academy, said that the USA's work on the development of supersonic space aircraft poses yet another potential threat to Russia. “I doubt that Russia is ready to fight with these American space planes. Some of our anti-missile defense complexes can hit targets up to 100 kilometers high. However, these new American aircraft can fly higher. Russia has very good ideas for defense, I am certain of that. The Americans have not even dreamed about them. However, they are only ideas, nothing more. Our scientists are not working on any projects that might counteract the American space planes,” Kolganov said.

&to=http://www.anomalia.narod.ru' target=_blank>Anomalia.Ru Translated by Dmitry Sudakov

http://www.pravdareport.com/news/russia/12281-n/

Both the SR-71 AND THE B-70 HAVE THEIR FIRST PUBLIC FLIGHTS IN 1964

Another interesting fact is that NX2 can be read as a combination of Roman and Arabic numerals. Which would make it N-12 or Nuclear 12. This is similar to A-12. A-12 and N-12 can be read as Atomic-12 and Nuclear-12.

SNAP REACTORS COULD BE USED IN TURBO JET PROPULSION