New home page section on 'orbital mechanics'

The shuttle will be linking up with the space station within the hour.
It's the most dramatic moment of the flight so far since launch --
'two whales mating', it's been called. Gently, very gently.

Reference my home page, a new special section on 'orbital mechanics':
http://www.jamesoberg.com/trajectories.html where detailed discussions
of how it's done can be found. 'Rendezvous' was my professional specialty
at Mission Control and I literally 'wrote the book'.

After downloading the program "Orbiter" and spending a week playing
with it, I have an incredible respect for the difficulty of orbital
rendezvous. I can't recommend "Orbiter" enough to folks who want some
"hands-on" time. http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/orbit.html

Jim Oberg wrote:
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Reference my home page, a new special section on 'orbital mechanics':
http://www.jamesoberg.com/trajectories.html where detailed discussions

the link for "A Bus Between Planets" -- you give this as
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?articleID=000BF99F-4F54-1C75,
which takes me to a "missing control" page.

Searching for Oberg gets me
http://www.sciamdigital.com/index.cfm?fa=Products.ViewIssuePreview&ARTICLEID_C HAR=1AEE051C-802E-4DBF-8F55-6E9C4AF746A,
which has the teaser and "ADD TO CART", since I'm not logged in as a
digital subscriber.


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