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Historical manned and unmanned space flight programs.
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Aerospace Projects Review can now be downloaded
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I've now made Aerospace Projects Review available as a downloadable magazine as well as a CD-ROM magazine. You can order both a new subscription and all back issues this way now. The download files are the same as the CD-ROM files, but cost less. [link]
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"NASA Watch" gets really pissed off.
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[link] That damn woman...that damn _Bush_ woman. This could destroy the entire impeccable tradition of the NASA PAO having no political agenda whatsoever. :-D Meanwhile, back on the ISS, the Mir glycol cooling system spill gets repeated with freon:... more »
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AWST Reports on details of Chinese Fall spacewalk
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Looks like 3 will take the ride. Wearing suits that "look like" Orlan knockoffs but the chinese vehemently deny, and are all newly designed by Chinese specs. Also looks like gear for spacewalk including a EVA man-launched sat. will be contained in the nose of the orbital module. This comes from video of 0-g water training at a Chinese... more »
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Statistics about launch vehicle failures?
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Hi! For a presentation I'm about to hold at my university, I would like to know the ratio of succesful and failed cargo launches in the history of spacetravel, but have been unable to find comprehensive data. From numbers published by The Aerospace Corporation (United States Air Force), I find that the ratio of failures for all space launches is... more »
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Project Mercury and CONTROL
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We've been watching the newly released complete "Get Smart" series, and I've noticed that there are several awfully familiar artist renderings of project Mercury on the wall in the R&D. (One is a cutaway orbital picture showing the capsule interior, and another is a re-entry shot. I haven't gotten a good view of the third.)... more »
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Reusable Atlas
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A concept that Convair/GD pushed for a while in the 1960's was a flyback version of the Atlas. The core would be structurally strengthened, the booster engines would be permanently afixed, wings, landing gear, jet engines and a cockpit would be added. Additionally, the Centaur would be repackaged as the propulsion system... more »
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Ron Parise dies
 
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Wikipedia is reporting that Ron Parise, Payload Specialist on STS-35 and STS-67 (the ASTRO missions) died of a brain tumour on Friday 9th May, aged 56.
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LBJ and space travel
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I remember reading that LBJ said that, once we'd landed on the moon, the USA could get to work on domestic problems. The clear implication appeared to be that space travel wasn't necessary or desired. The question is: did I imagine that? If I did not, can someone point me to where I can find the exact context and quote?... more »
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Air resistance
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I've been writing a computer simulation for a small satellite launcher, and have discovered a mistake in my code! The mistake isn't quite relevant to the question I want to ask, but related. I've been modelling aerodynamic drag in the lower part of the atmosphere as constant * airdensity * velocity * velocity.... more »
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Nasa Animations: Who's the animator?
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I've been watching 'Failure Is Not An Option', about Mission Control, on the History International channel. Among the stock footage used, particularly for Mercury and Gemini coverage, were various bits of NASA animation, showing approximations to what things like the Gemini 7/6 rendezvous should look like.... more »
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