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Post by supermeerkat on Mar 19, 2011 11:47:02 GMT -4
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Post by supermeerkat on Mar 19, 2011 8:13:03 GMT -4
Some nice troll trolling going on.
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Post by supermeerkat on Mar 19, 2011 8:01:17 GMT -4
I met him at a convention in Toronto a few years ago. Anyone who gets an opportunity like that should take it. I went to last years convention, and Ed Mitchell pulled out the day before due his son's diagnosis of cancer. Tom Stafford and Alexei Leonov were there, but where just doing photo shoots wearing their military uniforms. One of the organisers I spoke to, reckoned that the on the door ticket sales fell by half when Ed cancelled.
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Post by supermeerkat on Mar 18, 2011 18:58:02 GMT -4
It went okay. More interesting was reading about quarantine. Did they survive?
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Post by supermeerkat on Mar 18, 2011 18:54:39 GMT -4
www.autographica.co.uk/14th - 16th October 2011 - RADISSON EDWARDIAN HOTEL: HEATHROW LONDON. I am so there! Anyone going?
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Post by supermeerkat on Mar 12, 2011 7:40:01 GMT -4
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Post by supermeerkat on Mar 11, 2011 8:34:38 GMT -4
I think it pretty obvious that the decision to build the Shuttle and then the ISS was made for political reasons first and foremost. They certainly weren't built as the best way to advance space science and exploration. Wasn't Apollo essentially a crash program to put man on the moon as quickly as possibly, and the effect this had on the tech was to produce the effects you describe above?
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Post by supermeerkat on Mar 9, 2011 16:52:31 GMT -4
I thought we let the Russians in to keep their rocket scientists from selling services on how to operate the dangerously unsecured USSR nuclear missile fleet. I've heard some shocking stories about the state of the former SU's arsenal, so that does sound likely. Do you consider that to be the sole reason? Do you think the Russian's experience in space station technology was a factor?
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Post by supermeerkat on Mar 8, 2011 14:19:43 GMT -4
, it should be remembered, were invited into the ISS because the U.S., even though it was the richest nation on the planet and the world's most advanced scientific state, was looking for other countries to put up money for the ISS to lighten its own "burden." I thought the Russians were invited because they had decades more experience in building and manning space stations than the US.
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Post by supermeerkat on Mar 7, 2011 17:42:21 GMT -4
Instead of "Alien" set in the past and on the Moon rather than in the future and in deep space, here's what Hollywood *could* have done with Apollo 18... That's brilliant. It's intelligent, exciting and original. Oh, wait a minute...
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Post by supermeerkat on Mar 7, 2011 17:29:51 GMT -4
Carrying the Fire is undoubtably the best of the Astronaut biographies - Collins is articulate and witty, with a wonderful sense of self deprecation. He's also surprisingly modest, and seems something of an odd man out in the Apollo program amongst so many raging alpha males.
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Post by supermeerkat on Mar 4, 2011 21:44:52 GMT -4
I know. And I'm ashamed to admit that I've never really watched Dr. Who either.
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Post by supermeerkat on Mar 4, 2011 20:56:21 GMT -4
That is the total interior volume of the ascent module. The habitable volume was 4.5 m 3. Thanks for the correction my good sir, I'll add that my copy and paste collection ;D
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Post by supermeerkat on Mar 4, 2011 16:06:40 GMT -4
It makes the LM interior look enormous. Really? I looked at the trailer, and while it's obvious that they're using a fisheye lens to film the LM interior, it still seemed to have the correct dimensions. I'll be interested to see how accurately they reproduced the LM when I get to see the actual film. I assumed the LM interior would be much smaller, and was surprised to learn the LM had "an internal volume of 60 cubic metres" and "was the most spacious American spacecraft developed to that date" (quoted from p147 Chariots for Apollo, 2009 ed)
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Post by supermeerkat on Feb 24, 2011 20:01:16 GMT -4
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