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Election seats
Check out Figure 20 at this Gemini page at NASA... The typo speaks for
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On 30 May 2004 04:42:55 -0700, (Remy Villeneuve)
wrote: Check out Figure 20 at this Gemini page at NASA... The typo speaks for itself, I found it hilarious! http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4002/figures.htm ....Actually, I found this one more interesting: http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4002/images/fig2.jpg ....The use of a "fold-out" or "pop-down" flap to offset the C/G during reentry enough to provide lift is an interesting concept. Just how far did this proposal get past the drawing stage? Based on the additional notes, I suspect not very far :-P ....And then there's this one: http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4002/images/fig5.jpg ....And was this how the parasail was intended to work on Gemini as well? ....Of course, if the guys at Mattel had our resources and/or had been thinking clearly, Major Matt Mason would have had one of these: http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4002/images/fig8.jpg ....With a missile launcher on the top, too! ....And this one: http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4002/images/fig37.jpg ....Whatever happened to those old training mockups, anyway? McD still have them, or did the scrap them and/or donate them to a museum? ....HOLY ****! Beady, rk, Pat, & Henry! Check this out: http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4002/images/fig48.jpg ....Finally! Evidence of the Ballute proposal I've been looking for for ages! Gotta flag Mark Wade on this one, natch! OM -- "No ******* ever won a war by dying for | http://www.io.com/~o_m his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society - General George S. Patton, Jr |
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"Dale" wrote in message
... On 30 May 2004 04:42:55 -0700, (Remy Villeneuve) wrote: Check out Figure 20 at this Gemini page at NASA... The typo speaks for itself, I found it hilarious! Well, Americans hate a loser. Dale My girlfriend is Japanese- she often says stuff like "when is the next erection" when we talk about politics No mate, sorry, she's not talking politics. A woman can only be expected to wait just so long between 'elections'. ;-) -- Alan Erskine We can get people to the Moon in five years, not the fifteen GWB proposes. Give NASA a real challenge |
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On Sun, 30 May 2004 08:35:33 -0500, OM
om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org wrote: On 30 May 2004 04:42:55 -0700, (Remy Villeneuve) wrote: Check out Figure 20 at this Gemini page at NASA... The typo speaks for itself, I found it hilarious! http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4002/figures.htm I hope that this "election" produces "one hell of a headache,but a short one", for Shrub |
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says... Check out Figure 20 at this Gemini page at NASA... The typo speaks for itself, I found it hilarious! http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4002/figures.htm Yep -- there are quite a few people who have run for office I'd *love* to see forced to use one of those "election seats"... especially if they resulted in John Young's helluva short headache! Doug |
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om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy... _facility.org says... snip ...And then there's this one: http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4002/images/fig5.jpg ...And was this how the parasail was intended to work on Gemini as well? From what I can tell, looking at the illustration, that is supposed to be a Gemini. (See the indentation for the hatch window in the illo?) I don't ever recall Gemini planning on using the heatshield as a skid, though -- they were always going to have two body skids and one nose skid, whent hey were planning for the Gemini paraglider landings. ...Of course, if the guys at Mattel had our resources and/or had been thinking clearly, Major Matt Mason would have had one of these: http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4002/images/fig8.jpg ...With a missile launcher on the top, too! That would have been keen! I always liked that LM proposal -- IIRC, it was proposed as a lunar lander for a Mercury-based manned landing proposal. You would use a Saturn 1B to launch the Mercury capsule and the attached lander on a trans-lunar trajectory, with an Agena attached to the whole thing to act as an LOI/TEI stage. The lone occupant of the Mercury capsule would EVA into the lander, separate, land, get out, walk around, pick up a pound or two of rocks, take off again, rendezvous with his Mercury capsule, and climb back in -- all without ever taking off his suit. Or having a pressurized cabin available. Spending that much time in a hard suit, especially a Mercury-style suit, would have gotten really uncomfortable, I bet... Doug |
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On Sun, 30 May 2004 04:42:55 -0700, Remy Villeneuve wrote:
Check out Figure 20 at this Gemini page at NASA... The typo speaks for itself, I found it hilarious! http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4002/figures.htm Well Schirra elected not to use them! |
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"Rick DeNatale" wrote in message news On Sun, 30 May 2004 04:42:55 -0700, Remy Villeneuve wrote: Check out Figure 20 at this Gemini page at NASA... The typo speaks for itself, I found it hilarious! http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4002/figures.htm Well Schirra elected not to use them! Looks like they both get voted off! |
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