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USS Mississippi (BB-41) underway in the Pacific Ocean, on April 12, 1945.

Advanced Space Transportation Program (ASTP)

"This is a computer generated image of a Shuttle launch utilizing 2nd generation Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV) flyback boosters, a futuristic concept that is currently undergoing study by NASA's Space Launch Initiative (SLI) Propulsion Office, managed by the Marshall Space Fight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, working in conjunction with the Agency's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. Currently, after providing thrust to the Space Shuttle, the solid rocket boosters are parachuted into the sea and are retrieved for reuse. The SLI is considering vehicle concepts that would fly first-stage boosters back to a designated landing site after separation from the orbital vehicle. These flyback boosters would be powered by several jet engines integrated into the booster capable of providing over 100,000 pounds of thrust. The study will determine the requirements for the engines, identify risk mitigation activities, and identify costs associated with risk mitigation and jet engine development and production, as well as determine candidate jet engine options to pursue for the flyback."

Date: April 3, 2000

A whole sky lime

USS Massachusetts (BB-59) and USS Indiana (BB-58) opens fire on Kaimaishi, on August 9, 1945. Photographed from USS Indiana.

Note: this is the last battleship bombardment of World War II.

NHHC: 80-G-339333, 80-G-339340

USS Iowa (BB-61) firing her 16 inch guns of turrets #1 and #2 during a main battery gunnery exercise on the Atlantic Ocean, on April 23, 1987.

Willard Womack Following

Dougls SBD-5