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General Dynamics Nexus

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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. It was never built.