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Student group wants to revive Gemini spacecraft design
"M" wrote in message ... All they need is the money to do it.... Seems to me a better clean sheet design could be made. http://www.aio50.org/ Money is *always* what is holding back progress in human spaceflight. What's your point again? Jeff -- "Take heart amid the deepening gloom that your dog is finally getting enough cheese" - Deteriorata - National Lampoon |
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Student group wants to revive Gemini spacecraft design
wrote in message ... On Aug 13, 7:26 am, "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)" wrote: Of course Soyuz has features that Gemini didn't, such as a crew of 3 (yes, I know for a good portion of its history it was limited to 2) and a docking mechanism that permits the crew to make a transfer to another craft w/o spacesuits. Gemini didn't have that and any design that permits that quickly becomes something other than Gemini. So, no Soyuz isn't nearly as useless. Perhaps Soyuz is the real answer, then. Placing it in production in the USA, perhaps. Won't happen. Jeff -- "Take heart amid the deepening gloom that your dog is finally getting enough cheese" - Deteriorata - National Lampoon |
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Student group wants to revive Gemini spacecraft design
Greg D. Moore (Strider) wrote:
This always struck me as a great paper design. How well it would have worked in practice, who knows. It certainly would have been challenging in the crew escape during a launch abort situation. Pat |
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Student group wants to revive Gemini spacecraft design
M wrote:
All they need is the money to do it.... Seems to me a better clean sheet design could be made. http://www.aio50.org/ Forward to the 50's! The 1950's that is. D. -- Touch-twice life. Eat. Drink. Laugh. http://derekl1963.livejournal.com/ -Resolved: To be more temperate in my postings. Oct 5th, 2004 JDL |
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OM wrote:
On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:11:02 -0500, Pat Flannery wrote: It certainly would have been challenging in the crew escape during a launch abort situation. "It would have been one hell of a headache, but it would have been a short one!" It appears to been intended to use a combo of a large escape tower and two big hatches for the passenger ejection seats: http://www.astronautix.com/craft/bigemini.htm As to how all the rocket exhaust from the passenger ejection seats was to be handled is a good question; there's some info on the Gemini seats he http://www.ejectionsite.com/gemini.htm Fire that many people out at once and there's bound to be the threat of a midair collision or parachute tangling; fire them in a staggered order and the last guys out are going to get fried from the exhaust of the first guys out seats. Pat |
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OM wrote:
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:15:53 -0700 (PDT), M wrote: Seems to me a better clean sheet design could be made. ...Actually, Gemini is one of those designs that if McNamara hadn't been such a spoogesponge and let the Air Farce have their MOL and Blue Gemini, would most likely still be flying today, although most likely updated to glass cockpits by now. Yep, the craft that never fly never get a chance to disappoint. D. -- Touch-twice life. Eat. Drink. Laugh. http://derekl1963.livejournal.com/ -Resolved: To be more temperate in my postings. Oct 5th, 2004 JDL |
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" wrote:
On Aug 12, 3:44 pm, OM wrote: ...Actually, Gemini is one of those designs that if McNamara hadn't been such a spoogesponge and let the Air Farce have their MOL and Blue Gemini, would most likely still be flying today, although most likely updated to glass cockpits by now. The base design is pretty damn efficient for two people, and fulfilled its mission design more than satisfactorily. Didn't McNamara at least admit many of his sins? He pretty much confessed to all of 'em. There is a small number of people whose masturbatory fantasies he cancelled because they made no sense in the real world, and they still hold it against him. D. -- Touch-twice life. Eat. Drink. Laugh. http://derekl1963.livejournal.com/ -Resolved: To be more temperate in my postings. Oct 5th, 2004 JDL |
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M wrote:
All they need is the money to do it.... And all my grandmother needs is wheels, and she'd be a wagon... |
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"Jorge R. Frank" wrote in message
... M wrote: All they need is the money to do it.... And all my grandmother needs is wheels, and she'd be a wagon... Come, come Mr. Scott. Young minds, fresh ideas. -- Greg Moore Ask me about lily, an RPI based CMC. |
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Student group wants to revive Gemini spacecraft design
Derek Lyons wrote:
He pretty much confessed to all of 'em. There is a small number of people whose masturbatory fantasies he cancelled because they made no sense in the real world, and they still hold it against him. Somehow "Okay, I was wrong..." doesn't quite cover Vietnam though, does it? In Japan the immediate follow-up to such a admission would involve wrapping a Tanto knife in rice paper, and drawing a dotted line across your belly with a Magic Marker, as well it should. It's a pity that Dick Cheney also doesn't understand the concept of "personal honor" either. Pat |
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