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Orbital Gravity Lab? by
David Spain
What would it take to get such a thing in orbit? Are there any
*knowledgeable* readers left in sci.space.policy that can comment on
this (Fred, Jeff and Greg...
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Thrust vs altitude question by
Fred J. McCall[_3_]
JF Mezei wrote on Fri, 11 May 2018
16:50:59 -0400:
On 2018-05-11 01:22, Niklas Holsti wrote:
What/where are those...
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Commercial Lunar Payload Services by
Fred J. McCall[_3_]
So NASA is going to let contracts for people doing commercial lunar
landers so they can manifest payloads on them. Just who do they think
those commercial...
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Continuing drop in prices? by
Fred J. McCall[_3_]
I've seen at least one report that if their predictions for Block 5
hold up when they tear down their first one, SpaceX is planning to
drop the cost of a...
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Load and Go by
Fred J. McCall[_3_]
NASA is at least verbally sounding more encouraging about the SpaceX
'Load and Go' launch for manned vehicles. This is good because, while
they could do it...
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Juno by
jacob navia
The juno spacecraft passed over the poles of Jupiter last Saturday.
Using NASA's Eyes application, I followed the approach in the simulator
in my Mac....
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Street View on Space Station ! by
William Elliot[_4_]
How does one zoom out to see more than a disorientating interior?
Google satellite image, zoom out enough to see Earth as a planet, and a
sidebar appears...
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Space elevator by
Alain Fournier[_3_]
I just found again an old document I read some 18 years ago about space
elevators:
http://www.niac.usra.edu/files/studies/final_report/472Edwards.pdf
I...
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Bacteria in spaeships by
jacob navia
NASA got a bad day some weeks ago.
A microbiologist discovered that Acetinobacter can eat the desinfectant
that NASA sprays in their clean rooms...
A soil...
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Soyuz fueling by
Jeff Findley[_6_]
In article ,
says...
BTW, the NASA guy now refers to Cygnus as a Northrop Grunman...
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Soyuz fueling by
Jeff Findley[_6_]
In article ,
says...
The NASA PR guy just mentioned the Soyuz was fueled several hours...
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Blue Origin Test by
Fred J. McCall[_3_]
Blue Origin just successfully tested the escape system for their
manned capsule. They launched on a New Shepard rocket and then did a
high altitude escape...
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