Lenticular Reentry Vehicle (LRV
From 300 miles in space the LRV would be able to rain nuclear destruction on the Soviet Union, Red China and North Korea. How It Works look at vidieo Helium balloon carries vehicle back to the launch site. Escape capsule deployment Multistage controllable chute In normal operation, the LRV would use its saucer shape to dissipate re-entry heat and then provide lift for atmospheric flight. In 1949, the biggest black hole in the universe wasn’t in space, but across the Bering Strait. Stretching across 12 time zones, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was, as Winston Churchill would so memorably describe it, “a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.” The few things that most people knew about life behind the Iron Curtain seemed to be pieces of an incomprehensible puzzle. For the handful of intelligence experts who saw how the pieces fit, the “workers’ paradise” presented a clear and present danger to the American way of life. What the intelligence community