NEXUS (rocket)

NEXUS heavy-lift booster concept. Atlas ICBM at lower left indicates scale.

The NEXUS reusable rocket was a concept design created in the 1960s by a group at General Dynamics led by Krafft Arnold Ehricke. It was intended as the next leap beyond the Saturn V, carrying up to eight times more payload. Several versions were designed, including 12,000 and 24,000 short ton vehicles with payloads of one thousand and two thousand short tons respectively.^[1] The larger version had a diameter of 202 feet (61.5 metres).^[1]^[2] It was never built.

Notes

1 2 "Aerospace projects Review" 3 (1).
↑ "SP-4221 The Space Shuttle Decision". NASA History. Retrieved 10 January 2011.

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Reusable launch systems

Partially reusable

Current	Falcon 9 v1.1‡

Planned	Baikal-Angara Falcon Heavy ISRO RLV Shenlong Adeline-variant Ariane 6 Vulcan

Retired	Buran Space Shuttle

Cancelled	Ares I Ares V Falcon 1e Liquid Fly-back Booster Derivatives MAKS Phoenix – Hopper Saturn-Shuttle Silver Dart Spiral

Completely reusable

Current	SpaceShipTwo‡ New Shepard‡

Planned	Avatar Lynx SOAR Skylon Sura SpaceShipThree

Retired	SpaceShipOne X-15

Cancelled	Energia II/Uragan Goodyear Meteor Junior HOTOL Hyperion SSTO K-1 X-30 NASP X-33 Phoenix SSTO Roton VentureStar

Italics indicates suborbital launch systems
‡ - Reusability currently in development

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