Alternative Lunar Lander... a Eagle?!

"OM" wrote in message
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On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 02:16:01 -0500, Pat Flannery
wrote:

Very cool find by NASA Watch!
A design NASA worked on as a reusable alternative to Altair:
http://images.spaceref.com/news/2009...unarLander.pdf
The design on pages 6 and 15-22 of the PDF will look _very_ familiar to
and Gerry and Sylvia Anderson fans.
There's a animated Powerpoint presentation on it he
http://images.spaceref.com/news/2009...unarLander.pps

...I found the official NASA site, so you don't have to go through
"Mr. Paranoid's" bull**** censorship:

http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1992015549.pdf

That's not it, but it's an interesting paper too.

The one on NASA Watch was a PowerPoint (says so under Properties,
Application). The PDF's Author (also in Properties) is Marc Boucher. If
you want it, I could email it to you, but it's about 9 MB is size (stupid
PowerPoint).

BTW, I agree with your annoyance at "Mr. Paranoid". He's got to stick
"nasawatch.com" on every page of every PDF he rips off and posts on his
site.

Jeff
--
"Many things that were acceptable in 1958 are no longer acceptable today.
My own standards have changed too." -- Freeman Dyson

Jeff Findley wrote:

The one on NASA Watch was a PowerPoint (says so under Properties,
Application). The PDF's Author (also in Properties) is Marc Boucher. If
you want it, I could email it to you, but it's about 9 MB is size (stupid
PowerPoint).

I just downloaded it again and it's 645 KB in size.

Pat

"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
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Jeff Findley wrote:

The one on NASA Watch was a PowerPoint (says so under Properties,
Application). The PDF's Author (also in Properties) is Marc Boucher. If
you want it, I could email it to you, but it's about 9 MB is size (stupid
PowerPoint).

I just downloaded it again and it's 645 KB in size.

The PDF version is definitely about 9 MB (more than a bit bloated). I
didn't bother downloading the PowerPoint because this is my work machine and
I consider PDF "safer" to download than PowerPoint.

Jeff
--
"Many things that were acceptable in 1958 are no longer acceptable today.
My own standards have changed too." -- Freeman Dyson

Jeff Findley wrote:
I just downloaded it again and it's 645 KB in size.


The PDF version is definitely about 9 MB (more than a bit bloated). I
didn't bother downloading the PowerPoint because this is my work machine and
I consider PDF "safer" to download than PowerPoint.



I thought you were referring to the Powerpoint, not the PDF.
The Powerpoint has auto-advance on the pages and some of the most clunky
animation of the images you ever saw.

Pat