Goddard's 1930 Manned Moonship

On 9/11/2010 10:40 AM, wrote:

Go to USPTO data base - you'll need to install their TIFF viewer to
see them - its free and complete if you click 'since 1790' check box -
the last nine for 'Robert Goddard' 'Inventor Name' is;

Thanks.

1,341,053 Magazine rocket

This is very near to the basic idea of Orion.

You can also go to it via the new Google patent search engine:
http://www.google.com/patents/about?...J&dq=1,341,053
The multiple explosion design goes back further than Goddard, at least
as far as one of the assassins of Czar Alexander II in 1881:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Kibalchich

Pat

On 9/11/2010 7:10 PM, Pat Flannery wrote:

At least as far as one of the assassins of Czar Alexander II in 1881:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Kibalchich

Okay, how about Cyrano De Bergerac in his "A Voyage To The Moon" from
1647?: http://www.princeton.edu/~stengel/cyrano.html

"Bruised as I was, however, I returned to my Chamber without loosing
courage, and with Beef-Marrow I anointed my Body, for I was all over
mortified from Head to Foot: Then having taken a dram of Cordial Waters
to strengthen my Heart, I went back to look for my Machine; but I could
not find it, for some Soldiers, that had been sent into the Forest to
cut wood for a Bonefire, meeting with it by chance, had carried it with
them to the Fort: Where after a great deal of guessing what it might be,
when they had discovered the invention of the Spring, some said, that a
good many Fire-Works should be fastened to it, because their Force
carrying them up on high, and the Machine playing its large Wings, no
Body but would take it for a Fiery Dragon. In the mean time I was long
in search of it, but found it at length in the Market-place of Kebeck
(Quebec), just as they were setting Fire to it. I was so transported
with Grief, to find the Work of my Hands in so great Peril, that I ran
to the Souldier that was giving Fire to it, caught hold of his Arm,
pluckt the Match out of his Hand, and in great rage threw my self into
my Machine, that I might undo the Fire-Works that they had stuck about
it; but I came too late, for hardly were both my Feet within, when whip,
away went I up in a Cloud.
The Horror and Consternation I was in did not so confound the faculties
of my Soul, but I have since remembered all that happened to me at that
instant. For so soon as the Flame had devoured one tier of Squibs, which
were ranked by six and six, by means of a Train that reached every
half-dozen, another tier went off, and then another[8], so that the
Salt-Peter taking Fire, put off the danger by encreasing it. However,
all the combustible matter being spent, there was a period put to the
Fire-work; and whilst I thought of nothing less than to knock my Head
against the top of some Mountain, I felt, without the least stirring, my
elevation continuing; and adieu Machine, for I saw it fall down again
towards the Earth."

Pat

"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
dakotatelephone...
On 9/2/2010 4:15 AM, wrote:
On Sep 2, 3:11 am, Pat wrote:

Or maybe there's a way to go under the instrument panel to get to the
nose. Where's the toilet?

I know the details of the Apollo one, but how was that problem addressed
on the longer Gemini flights?

I have no idea, and I've not seen that references in any of the Gemini
documents I have. To be honest, I admit I've never looked for it.

On the long duration Gemini 7 flight, the astronauts were given special
pressure suits they could take off once in orbit, but that cabin still
looks awfully small to try to defecate and wipe yourself in.


Before sealing the bag, the astronaut had to pop in some sort of
anti-bacterial capsule then, for want of a better word, knead the contents
to make sure it was spread throughout. Lovell claims that Borman once handed
him a just-filled bag and asked him to do this for him as he was busy!
--
Gordon Davie
Edinburgh, Scotland

"Slipped the surly bonds of Earth...to touch the face of God."