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NASA Astronaut Breaks US Space Endurance Record
Jorge R. Frank wrote: Heh. I'd forgotten that thread, and I'll bet most of the regulars would have as well if you hadn't brought it up. But what the hey? We've rehashed the rail gauge argument, the Nazi slave labor argument, the Civil War argument, the Indian Genocide argument, and lord knows how many others recently... why *not* this one? Shoot, let's bring back "Moon Hoax", "Lost Cosmonauts", "Mr. Gorsky", and "Alternate-timeline Apollo Crew Rotations" while we're at it... Don't forget the evacuation procedures from the Sperry Ball Turret.... Pat |
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NASA Astronaut Breaks US Space Endurance Record
Pat Flannery wrote in
: Jorge R. Frank wrote: Heh. I'd forgotten that thread, and I'll bet most of the regulars would have as well if you hadn't brought it up. But what the hey? We've rehashed the rail gauge argument, the Nazi slave labor argument, the Civil War argument, the Indian Genocide argument, and lord knows how many others recently... why *not* this one? Shoot, let's bring back "Moon Hoax", "Lost Cosmonauts", "Mr. Gorsky", and "Alternate-timeline Apollo Crew Rotations" while we're at it... Don't forget the evacuation procedures from the Sperry Ball Turret.... Exactly! A Night of the Undead Threads. -- JRF Reply-to address spam-proofed - to reply by E-mail, check "Organization" (I am not assimilated) and think one step ahead of IBM. |
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not another damn alternate Apollo timeline! (was: NASA Astronaut Breaks US Space Endurance Record)
In article , "Jorge R. Frank"
wrote: Rick DeNatale wrote in news On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 02:34:27 +0000, Jorge R. Frank wrote: "Alan Erskine" wrote in : "Ron Baalke" wrote in message ... NASA astronaut Michael Foale ... is the new U.S. space endurance record holder I thought he was a British citizen? Foale has dual citizenship. OH GOD, don't start that argument again!!!! Heh. I'd forgotten that thread, and I'll bet most of the regulars would have as well if you hadn't brought it up. But what the hey? We've rehashed the rail gauge argument, the Nazi slave labor argument, the Civil War argument, the Indian Genocide argument, and lord knows how many others recently... why *not* this one? Shoot, let's bring back "Moon Hoax", "Lost Cosmonauts", "Mr. Gorsky", and "Alternate-timeline Apollo Crew Rotations" while we're at it... vbg But, seriously, folks; I've always been intrigued by the alternate-timeline Apollo scenarios I've seen here where the 204 fire doesn't happen, and Apollo 1 flies as planned with the Grissom crew in the Block I CM. All I can see in _this_ one is even-greater tragedy as the O2/fire hazard issue isn't discovered until a mission is actually in-flight; horrible as it sounds, the "best" case I can come up with is the "real" one, in which the A1 crew dies in the pad fire and, as I've heard one interviewed engineer say, "buys time" for the designers to deal with that issue before Apollo actually flew. The only alternate Apollo timeline in which the A1 crew lives to fly their mission that _I_ can think of, that _doesn't_ involve a horrid in-flight conflagaration later on, is if -- in some preliminary unmanned test -- the problem surfaces, the flash fire guts an empty CM, the usual investigation ensues, the problem is corrected, and Gus' crew flies A1 in a Block II CM. -- "All over, people changing their roles, along with their overcoats; if Adolf Hitler flew in today, they'd send a limousine anyway!" --the clash. __________________________________________________ _________________ Mike Flugennock, flugennock at sinkers dot org Mike Flugennock's Mikey'zine, dubya dubya dubya dot sinkers dot org |
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not another damn alternate Apollo timeline! (was: NASA Astronaut Breaks US Space Endurance Record)
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Mike Flugennock wrote: ...All I can see in _this_ one is even-greater tragedy as the O2/fire hazard issue isn't discovered until a mission is actually in-flight... Except that there is no major fire-hazard issue in flight, at 5psi. It's only on the pad, at 15psi+, that pure oxygen is really nasty. -- MOST launched 30 June; first light, 29 July; 5arcsec | Henry Spencer pointing, 10 Sept; first science, early Oct; all well. | |
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