Another thing that grated on me about When We Left Earth Sun. night

On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:41:37 -0400, Jud McCranie
wrote:

Spacecraft Films needs to release selectively edited
versions of their material.

....Spacecraft Films needs to do two things specifically for me,
because I'm a greedy, selfish one-legged *******:

1) An ASTP DVD. Now. Not a year from now. NOW!

2) Locate all of the Saturn program development quarterly briefing
films. There's got to be copies of the missing ones out there, and I
actually found those really fascinating. They show the program from an
engineering standpoint and not a historians, so they're not as
dumbed-down at times. Then again, I've always enjoyed industrial
quarterly report films like that, especially aerospace or navy-related
ones.

....On a side note, an OMBlogger sent me a 3DS file of ASPT. I haven't
loaded it yet, but it could save me the hassle of having to build my
own DM mesh and locating a Soyuz 19 mesh that's of the same quality as
the Apollo CSM stack someone "acquired" for me a while back.

OM
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Neil Gerace wrote:
On Jun 11, 11:00 am, Pat Flannery wrote:


Which one suspects, is because the X-15 could get that high, and 50
miles was a nice round number. ;-)


Only in that Roman system of units you use there :-)


I'll have to work that altitude out in stadia and cubits sometime. ;-)

Pat

OM wrote:
...To fully appreciate the test stand explosion, you have to watch the
version that has the GSE op and the pilot on the loop!


There's a good video of it on You Tube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXpEPZ6ZZIs

Pat

Jeff Findley wrote:

Let's say you're trying to determine the lowest possible altitude that you
could orbit a satellite. Note that the denser the satellite, the longer it
will take for the orbit to decay. So, you orbit a sphere of depleted
uranium at a very low altitude for at least one complete orbit and call that
the boundary.

For real low drag, use a tank long-rod penetrator projectile to reduce
frontal area.
Does anyone know the lowest orbit a satellite was ever intentionally put
into?
I went Googling for this, but no luck.

Pat

Pat

On Jun 12, 7:20*am, Pat Flannery wrote:
Neil Gerace wrote:
On Jun 11, 11:00 am, Pat Flannery wrote:

Which one suspects, is because the X-15 could get that high, and 50
miles was a nice round number. ;-)

Only in that Roman system of units you use there :-)

I'll have to work that altitude out in stadia and cubits sometime. ;-)

Reminds me of the old college question, if it takes 4.4 years for
light to travel to the nearest star and light travels at 300 km per
second, what is the answer in furlongs per fortnight?

Eric

"OM" wrote in message
...

...Spacecraft Films needs to do two things specifically for me,
because I'm a greedy, selfish one-legged *******:


you sell yourself short, Bob.

One-and-a-half

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