NASA duplicates Goddards 1st rocket

It has taken 22 NASA scientists to duplicate Goddards 1st liquid fuel
rocket. Why doesnt this surprise me?

Parallax wrote:
It has taken 22 NASA scientists to duplicate Goddards 1st liquid fuel
rocket. Why doesnt this surprise me?

Because you are naturally optimistic?


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It has taken 22 NASA scientists to duplicate Goddards 1st liquid fuel
rocket.

Was that part of NASA's OSP Shuttle program? When exactaly are we
expecting the Shuttle replacement? Next thing you'll be telling me
that they'll be reviving Apollo era hardware designs for the ISS CRV.

Am 31 Jul 2003 21:08:47 -0700 schrieb "Shinji Ikari":

It has taken 22 NASA scientists to duplicate Goddards 1st liquid fuel
rocket.

You know, what scale modelling is? It costs a much more effort to
_exactly reproduce_ something, than to make a genuine new design by
known principles.

Was that part of NASA's OSP Shuttle program? When exactaly are we
expecting the Shuttle replacement? Next thing you'll be telling me
that they'll be reviving Apollo era hardware designs for the ISS CRV.

I guess, that wouldn't be the worst choice at all ;-) There are PROVEN
concepts, that should not be thrown away only because they are old.

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On Sun, 03 Aug 2003 21:39:02 +0200, Heinrich Zinndorf-Linker
wrote:

Am 31 Jul 2003 21:08:47 -0700 schrieb "Shinji Ikari":

It has taken 22 NASA scientists to duplicate Goddards 1st liquid fuel
rocket.

You know, what scale modelling is? It costs a much more effort to
_exactly reproduce_ something, than to make a genuine new design by
known principles.

Was that part of NASA's OSP Shuttle program? When exactaly are we
expecting the Shuttle replacement? Next thing you'll be telling me
that they'll be reviving Apollo era hardware designs for the ISS CRV.

I guess, that wouldn't be the worst choice at all ;-) There are PROVEN
concepts, that should not be thrown away only because they are old.

The staged rocket is extremly wasteful, as its like you dumping your
car every time you go to the shops or to work. A SSTO concept is the
solution to get anywhere in access to space, the current shuttle is a
hybrid concept, when what NASA wanted was a 2 stage manned launch
system, with a smaller space achieveing shuttle, but the US DoD wanted
something that would launch their big space sats. Thankfully the
designs for the 'shuttle replacement' are all small, and more closely
related to the original shuttle concept. Pity it took NASA the best
part of 30 years to reconise that.


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