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.
"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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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)
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...
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