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X Prize 2 by
Bootstrap Bill
Once the X Prize is won, is a goal of achieving orbit reasonable? Could
someone build a reusable ship that is capable taking three passengers to
orbit in a...
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Cheap, easy to handle fuels/oxidizers by
Earl Colby Pottinger
John Cramer's latest breakthru is adding an alcohol to 50% peroxide to make a
cheap, easy to handle, easy to buy mono-propellant for his rockets.
Does anyone...
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Incoming!!! by
Mike Miller
Hypothetically...
You've captured your stony-iron asteroid and parked it at the
Earth-moon L4 point. You've got mines and smelters producing tens of
megatons...
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Microwave beamed power by
zoltan
Has anybody investigated the use of microwave beamed power as a way of
eliminating the first stage of a rocket?
To put it more precisely to assist a rocket by...
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Rockets by
George Kinley
Hi,
if there is no Atmosphere, where do rockets that go in Space get thrust from
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Rover brains? by
hrtbreak
JPL has some limited information about the Mars rover electronics and the
VME bus:
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/spacecraft_rover_brains.html
What...
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Return of Apollo by
Ilpo Lagerstedt
Anything new about the possible Apollo "capsule" of the next generation?
Bestest, IL of FI
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Accidental Orion? by
Parallax
I recently read somewhere a story about one of the first underground
nuclear tests called Bernallilo in which the vertical shaft was capped
with a massive...
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Who has the most powerfull rocket? by
Rajesh Khanna
Hello All:
Who has the most powerfull rocket engine? In terms of Lifting capability?
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Polythene tanks? by
Peter Fairbrother
Reading the thread about cryogenic plastics, I thought it might be an idea
to use (reinforced? with what?) polythene for the tanks of my LH2/LOX second
stage*...
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Radiation a Mars trip hazard? by
Dr. O
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/09/science/space/09RADI.html
The thing I don't understand is that people have been spending much more
time in orbit than the...
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Specific Impulse of cyclic ozone? by
Nyrath the nearly wise
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/rocketscience-05e.html
The attached article notes that Dr. Robert Levis et al
at Temple University's Center for Advanced...
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Serious propulsion by
Allen Thomson
Probably such things have been hashed out before, but allow me to
solicit the opinion of the readership on this question that has
come up in some off-line...
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Air breathing Engines by
Stephenjkm
Do air breathing engines provide any benefit for vertically launched
spacecraft? I have recently seen work regarding hypersonic aircraft
which purports to have...
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