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When NASA will become an ESAs member?
Lou Adornato wrote:
2: The first NASA/ESA landing on the moon will occur after requesting landing clearance. In Chinese. Actually we know what really happens- they find a letter claiming the Moon for Queen Victoria. :-) Professor Cavor |
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When NASA will become an ESAs member?
Rand Simberg wrote:
Coincidentally (I hope) the current SRD for the CEV requires that the vehicle be able to sustain a collision with a 2.2. kg bird at 3.5 kilometers altitude. I'll leave the implications of this requirement for vehicle structural design to the reader. BTW, I found out hat the bird was that hit the Shuttle on the last launch. Wanna take a wild guess what hit it? A _vulture_ hit it. http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/...7143903194.jpg Now, if I believed in omens.... :-D Pat |
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When NASA will become an ESAs member?
On Sun, 28 May 2006 12:01:14 -0400, in a place far, far away, Pat
Flannery made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that: Rand Simberg wrote: Coincidentally (I hope) the current SRD for the CEV requires that the vehicle be able to sustain a collision with a 2.2. kg bird at 3.5 kilometers altitude. I'll leave the implications of this requirement for vehicle structural design to the reader. BTW, I found out hat the bird was that hit the Shuttle on the last launch. Wanna take a wild guess what hit it? A _vulture_ hit it. http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/...7143903194.jpg It was two of them, right at liftoff. That's where the requirement came from. |
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