Space Forum / Space History / January 2006

Didn't get much in the way of holiday greetings
out, so here's wishing everybody in s.s.h. a
happy and prosperous new year!
My New Years's Resolution is to personally oversee

..So, has anyone been successful in getting 3D Studio Max to open the
damn things?
                OM

I just browsed a bit around, an I begin to wonder, what was the
smallest launch vehicle, that ever reached an orbit by own means - so
please exclude air or otherwise assisted launch methods. Small may be
by size (length) or launch mass - I guess, that these limits must not

I just saw a video clip of "MARRS", "Pump up the Volume" from the 1980s.
Its a collection of very short film sequenzes of US and SU manned and
unmanned spaceflight mainly before the Shuttle time. One 4 seconds part
attracted my attention. It shows the ejection of the aeroshell in ...

Doing my assigned reading, I ran into an interesting table, reproduced in
part here:
  http://mysite.verizon.net/stellare/skylab_repair.jpg
Look at the entry in the lower right hand corner.  This came from: