Inertial Upper Stage (IUS)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Rocket. The Inertial Upper Stage (IUS), originally designated the Interim Upper Stage, was a two-stage solid-fueled rocket upper stage developed by Boeing for the United States Air Force beginning in 1976 for raising payloads from low Earth orbit to higher orbits or interplanetary trajectories following launch aboard a Titan 34D or Titan IV rocket, or from the payload bay of the Space Shuttle.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Nancy S. Hammond Space Shuttle Programs Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2023-09-20
Contents of the Collection
The Nancy S. Hammond Space Shuttle Programs Collection documents the career of Nancy Hammond while employed with the Boeing Aerospace Company on NASA contracts. Hammond was part of a group responsible for tracking the progress of scheduled tasks to complete the Inertial Upper Stage rocket to be attached to the TDRS-A (Tracking, Data, and Relay) Satellite to be launched on the Space Shuttle STS-6. This collection, which dates from 1969-1993, consists of printed ephemera, manual drafts,...
Dates:
1969-1977, 1981-1993; Majority of material found within 1981-1990
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives