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STS-xxR? by
Andrew Gray
Ambling through the CAIB report, I find references to flights STS-26R
through -33R. These seem to be the first few missions after
Return-To-Flight, but I've...
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Naval LOX usage? by
Andrew Gray
It's a bit OT, but someone here must know this sort of thing.
Catching up on another newsgroup, I find a discussion of LN2, and
someone being very...
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Soyuz 9 - The Space Plague! (or not) by
Andrew Gray
Interesting comment in /Challenge To Apollo/:
"Over the period of the next few days, it was increasingly clear that
part of the reason for the very poor shape...
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A rather neat photo by
Andrew Gray
I don't know why we bother with CGI sometimes, y'know?
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040928.html
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-Andrew Gray
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RIP: Max Faget by
Andrew Gray
Or so I am told:
http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/000271.html
An old article of Jim Oberg's is...
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Slovenian rocketry by
Andrew Gray
Found this whilst looking for something else; don't have a copy of the
article, just the abstract (which looks, um, strangely translated). But
it looks...
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"NASA Facts" sheets by
Andrew Gray
Just ran across this...
http://wikisource.org/wiki/NASA_Facts
A selection of scans of old NASA factsheets, from (I think) the mid
1960s...
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-Andrew Gray
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OV-n designations? by
Andrew Gray
In retrospect, I probably should have waited until I was home and had
Jenkins handy, but I was bored...
I've been doing a little fiddling with the Wikipedia...
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We Are All, um, that chap, thingy... by
Andrew Gray
Just remembered this...
A while ago, I was poking around in the Library of Congress authority
records , and ended up throwing in the first author name I saw...
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STS-1 & Corned Beef by
Andrew Gray
This was in the STS-1 post-flight debriefing, and I thought it might
amuse some:
YOUNG: Well, if nothing else, helped your morale
some, I think.
CRIPPEN:...
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Another early NASA SP online by
Andrew Gray
I've recently come into possession of a .pdf of a scan of NASA SP-56,
"Concepts for Detection of Extraterrestrial Life", from 1964.
Fifty-something pages,...
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Some more trivia by
Andrew Gray
Flicking through BBC news stories, I ran across two little details...
Liwei's first comment from orbit was apparently "I feel good.".
Elegantly simple for...
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Well-informed journalism by
Andrew Gray
This was on the comment page of the /Times/, today. I encourage people
to play "spot the...
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Spirit Landing Site by
Andrew Gray
(I note O'Keefe's comment was "We're back". I'm *sure* someone used that
as first-words-on-Mars in a novel sometime...)
So, Spirit (or, if you prefer, Daffy)...
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A wide collection of errata by
Andrew Gray
I just ran across http://www.csl.sri.com/users/neumann/illustrative.html
- it's a collection of one-line summaries of cases that have appeared in
the RISKS...
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X-15 Program Cost by
Andrew Gray
Hey all.
A while ago I had a little look for some numbers on this, and couldn't
seem to find much more than rough estimates (generally in the "n...
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First Cassini image by
Andrew Gray
JPL's site seems to have a link to it but no large image; a little
digging...
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Chicago by
Andrew Gray
I seem to have found myself in Chicago for the next week or so. On a
vaguely relevant note, suggestions on interesting things to go and see
would be...
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Eagle - 30 seconds by
Andrew Gray
On 2004-08-09, Jud McCranie wrote:
When the Eagle is landing, when they call "30 seconds", is that 30
seconds of fuel...
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BARIS - free to distribute, apparently by
Andrew Gray
A couple of years ago ssh got rather enthused over the computer game
/Buzz Aldrin's Race Into Space/, an adaptation of the old board game
"Liftoff!"
I just...
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