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NASA duplicates Goddards 1st rocket
It has taken 22 NASA scientists to duplicate Goddards 1st liquid fuel
rocket. Why doesnt this surprise me? |
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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? -- http://inquisitor.i.am/ | | Ian Stirling. ---------------------------+-------------------------+-------------------------- Acting is merely the art of stopping a large number of people from coughing - Sir Ralph Richardson |
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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. cu, ZiLi aka HKZL (Heinrich Zinndorf-Linker) -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign \ / http://zili.de X No HTML in / \ email & news |
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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. Christopher +++++++++++++++++++++++++ "There's a light at the end of the tunnel" says the optimist. "It's probably a train coming stright at us" responds the pessimist. |
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