I'm going back in time to fix the space program. Y'all got any requests?

I'm serious now. Art Bell sent me his time machine plans.

Examples:

Good request: "Prevent cancellation of Dyna-Soar program."

Bad request: "Prevent Dan Goldin's parents from meeting."

Worse request: "Make $1M investment in 1990s startup company selling Dan
Goldin bobblehead dolls online."

Corry




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Unclaimed Mysteries wrote:

I'm serious now. Art Bell sent me his time machine plans.

Examples:

Good request: "Prevent cancellation of Dyna-Soar program."

Actually, you hit on my favorite, right here. As well as the delta
winged X-15 variant.

Doing some of Phil Bono's VTOL concepts (not the mega-rockes like
SASSTO right away, even the small one that would take a Gemini into low
Earth orbit and return intact would've been adequate) or Chrysler's SERV
would've been desirable, too.

On the private side, someone ponying up enough money for Gary
Hudson's Phoenix.

Unclaimed Mysteries wrote in message ...
I'm serious now. Art Bell sent me his time machine plans.

Examples:

Good request: "Prevent cancellation of Dyna-Soar program."

Bad request: "Prevent Dan Goldin's parents from meeting."

Worse request: "Make $1M investment in 1990s startup company selling Dan
Goldin bobblehead dolls online."

Corry

Not bad examples. But let's go back to 5 October, 1957:

1). Don't form NASA.

2). Provide substantial funding for NACA, JPL, ABMA and NRL
for *competitive* programs. Base follow-on funding on results.

3). Offer guaranteed markets for low-cost space access by
private entrepreneurs. But: no tickee, no washee. Payments
for results only--not promises. Perhaps provide tax incentives
and reduced barriers to raising money from the public--with
more reliance on fraud prosecution and less reliance on
trying to preclude fraud with cumbersome, expensive,
overregulation.

Best regards,
Len (Cormier)
PanAero, Inc. and Third Millennium Aerospace, Inc.
( http://www.tour2space.com )

warn the skylab folks about the solar maximum and atmospheric drag.

MSu1049321 wrote:

warn the skylab folks about the solar maximum and atmospheric drag.

Given that information, what might've they done differently?
Espically as there was still the expectation that the shuttle would be
flying a few years earlier than it did, giving them a shot at rendezvous
and re-boost.

"Joann Evans" wrote in message
...
MSu1049321 wrote:

warn the skylab folks about the solar maximum and atmospheric drag.

Given that information, what might've they done differently?

Might have argued for a Skylab-5 mission to include a reboost.

Might have gone for a higher reboost on Skylab-4 if possible.

Might have re-activated Skylab earlier and put it in a low-drag orientation
even sooner.


Espically as there was still the expectation that the shuttle would be
flying a few years earlier than it did, giving them a shot at rendezvous
and re-boost.

Assassinate John F. Kennedy in 1960. Better make it January 1960; that will
solve the Vietnam problem also.

Richard Schumacher wrote:
Assassinate John F. Kennedy in 1960. Better make it January 1960; that will
solve the Vietnam problem also.


Please take this to alt.tv.x-files. Ask for CSM.

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In article ,
Richard Schumacher wrote:
Assassinate John F. Kennedy in 1960. Better make it January 1960; that will
solve the Vietnam problem also.

Sure will. It'll put either Nixon or LBJ in charge for the Cuban Missile
Crisis. Nobody in the radioactive ruins of Washington DC will be at all
interested in Vietnam.
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(Henry Spencer) wrote in
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In article ,
Richard Schumacher wrote:
Assassinate John F. Kennedy in 1960. Better make it January 1960;
that will solve the Vietnam problem also.

Sure will. It'll put either Nixon or LBJ in charge for the Cuban
Missile Crisis. Nobody in the radioactive ruins of Washington DC will
be at all interested in Vietnam.

Surely that's oversimplifying a little bit, no? Khrushchev was emboldened
to try stationing missiles in Cuba because of the (perceived) weakness of
JFK during the Bay of Pigs invasion - and *that* was because JFK felt
inadequately briefed on a plan that had been in the works during the
preceding Eisenhower/Nixon administration. Had Nixon been president, he
would have been much less reluctant to order at least US air support for
the operation, or even US troops. At best, this would have resulted in the
overthrow of Castro; at worst, it would have resulted in the US stuck in a
Cuban quagmire (vice the Vietnam quagmire). But in either case, with lots
of US troops on the island, Khrushchev would have been unlikely to try to
put nukes there in the first place, and the Missile Crisis wouldn't have
happened.

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JRF

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