Importance of blimps and balloons as air space vehicles; reference made to ZPG-2W airship, which is blimp with helium capacity of 1,000, 000 cu ft, proposed by Goodyear; applications include booster transportation, test bed flights of nuclear powerplants, air-snatch recovery and sea recovery of re-entered payloads; value of balloons for space studies, their use as launching platform for high altitude rocket vehicles; balloon design problems.
New missions foreseen for lighter-than-air craft
Space/Aeronautics
Space/Aeronautics ; 34 , n 6
1960
3 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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