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  1. Grey Havoc

    Skylab savior Jack A. Kinzler RIP

    Via Slashdot: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/15/us/jack-kinzler-skylabs-savior-dies-at-94.html Jack Kinzler in 1973 with a photo of the thermal shield he created for the Skylab station. Credit United Press International Godspeed.
  2. Grey Havoc

    Challenger

    View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4JOjcDFtBE View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd7dxmBLg48 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenger_disaster http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?234980-Challenger-anniversary From the 25th anniversary (2011)...
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    Constellation is Back (NASA Heavy Lift)

    "Finally, just last Friday President Obama signed a new federal spending bill into law. This bill includes money to continue NASA's human space exploration program. Surprisingly, the exploration program being funded is a program long thought dead by the space community. It is basically the...
  4. C

    Space scooter??

    What is exatly this? An alternative type of MMU for Skylab or Shuttle? Is in a lot of space publications of 70s. P.S- (A Apollo docking probe on the nose)?? :o
  5. Graham1973

    Hughes - Severe Storms Observing Satellite (SSOS aka StormSat)

    Hughes designed geosynchronous satellite optimised to study mesoscale phenomena such as tornados, squall lines and large convective systems. Had the satellite been built, the launch vehicle would have either been a Delta rocket or the Space Shuttle. Severe Storms Observing Satellite...
  6. Grey Havoc

    NASA Lunar gardens?

    http://rt.com/news/nasa-grow-plants-moon-420/
  7. Grey Havoc

    Scott Carpenter passes on

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-24485864# http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?231212-Scott-Carpenter-RIP http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/10/10/2032208/mercury-astronaut-scott-carpenter-dies-at-88...
  8. Graham1973

    AVCO - Jupiter Entry Probe (1971)

    1971 design for a Jupiter Entry Probe designed to sample the atmosphere of Jupiter down to a level equivalent to 17 times the atmospheric pressure of Earth. The proposed carrier vehicles were, TOPS, which would had the medium gain antenna from the baseline design replaced with one that could...
  9. Graham1973

    Jovian Turbopause Probe

    I've seen references to Jupiter drop probes dating back to the mid 1960's, but this upper atmosphere probe dating from the early 1970's is the earliest detailed design I know of, to quote the abstract: 1. The Jovian turbopause probe. Part 1 - The scientific requirements for the Jovian...
  10. hesham

    NASA Oblique-Wing Missiles Launcher Aircraft

    From "A Summary Of A Half-Century of Oblique Wing Research" by Mike Hirschberg, David M. Hart and Thomas J. Beutner
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    Candidate Space Shuttle Orbiters Wind Tunnel Studies 1969 NASA Langley Research

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBI1-lS7rmU "This December 1969 film looks at the candidate space shuttle orbiters using M=20 electron beam flow studies. This gives an interesting look at some of the proposed designs. The only tunnels at NASA Langley Research Center reaching that speed are in...
  12. C

    Skylab B and Advanced Skylab for the Shuttle.

    Advanced Skylab. A great occasion lost. :'( A large space station for the Shuttle, straightway.
  13. hesham

    Grumman OV-1 Projects

    Hi, here is from the airvectors site,an unknown projects to the Grumman OV-1; Does any one know them ?. http://www.airvectors.net/avmohawk.html
  14. Grey Havoc

    Bell SRLD (Rocket Belt) and LMSM (Jet Belt and other concepts including POGO)

    SRLD development: http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/253783.pdf http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/267358.pdf http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/409941.pdf Light Mobility System Missions: http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA415545&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf
  15. Grey Havoc

    Voyager 1 has exited the Solar System?

    http://www.space.com/20313-voyager-1-leaves-solar-system.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/9944080/Voyager-1-becomes-first-man-made-object-to-leave-the-Solar-System.html Voyager I passing the rings of Saturn (Daily Telegraph)
  16. Grey Havoc

    Nasa Next Generation Space-Based Relay Communication And Navigation...

    Architecture. http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-03/nasa-wants-options-space-internet https://www.fbo.gov/?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=f4b917baa5031642eda81a268331add4&tab=core&_cview=0 Extract from RFI:
  17. Grey Havoc

    Some good news regarding NASA RTGs

    Via Slashdot: http://news.discovery.com/space/nasa-plutonium-production-space-fuel-130314.htm
  18. The Artist

    Dee Howard DBA - 'The Big One'

    I'm re-posting this in a new thread to give this design a more proper identification and to have the thread ready when additional information (and hopefully the drawing) can be made available. I've done a few searches here on Dee Howard and haven't come up with anything. Should there be an...
  19. Grey Havoc

    The CPUs of Spacecraft

    I thought this would fit in well here: http://www.cpushack.com/space-craft-cpu.html
  20. Grey Havoc

    Project Hyreus Mars Sample Return (MSR)

    Beyond Apollo: The God of Gainful Employment: Project Hyreus (1993)
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