Space Forum / Space History / March 2007

Well, why not?  It would have saved the cost of developing the RS-68,
which from a performance point of view is a pretty iffy engine
anyway.  Having been specifically designed with low cost in mind, the
68 might be cheaper on a per-flight basis, but could it really be

This is very weird: http://www.douglasdc3.com/shuttle/shuttle.htm
Pat

In 1967 the North American Rockwell Corp. applied for an Apollo
variant patent that was granted in 1971. The patent drawings show an
Apollo CSM that has extendable wings and an X-15 like landing gear
with forward nose wheel and rear skids.

Would there be any value to injecting water into a rocket combustion
chamber? IIRC at least one version of the Harrier jet carried water intended
for injection into the engine. Though I can't remember the name of the book,
it explained the reason was to increase the reaction mass ...

...Dammit. Here we go again:
http://www.darkhorizons.com/news07/070209t.php
                OM

Since MAILGATE is either broken or at least no longer responding to
incorporating my replies into several pre-existing topics, perhaps this
is going to be the only viable alternative, of having to create fresh
topics about what sucks.

Have they found the video yet?

http://hiroc.lpl.arizona.edu//images/PSP/diafotizo.php?ID=PSP_002162_9030
Just when I was already getting jaded by one extra-sweet high-res image
after another of old Mars lander sites, here's one of Jupiter, as part
of a set of calibration/pointing control test images. After ...

Hello, this was given to me some years ago [early 2002?] by one who
called himself Alexander Xanatos, he was quite old at the time and has
passed on since.
My only active contacts with the Alliance and it's clans have faded

Congress just recently let slip the schedule for the shuttle
replacement. If Congress turns its back on Nasa's highest
priority, hasn't it also done the same for Nasa itself?
Why doesn't anyone care about going back to the Moon?

For the likes of all those folks that can't possibly think outside their
box, much less handle any humor; Here's another tough go at my plot, my
hidden agenda, my ulterior motive to overthrow the US government by way
of proving life (not necessarily of purely organic origins) once ...

The Atlas V liftoff is in just a hour or so . We had to stay home,
(School Bus Trouble). I have a house full of Space Club Kids, (Telling
Me how much this sucks). They wanted to go high-jack the football
team's bus, (I had to stop them from barnstorming into the bus depot,

I have SA-1 thru SA-6 almost ready to publish, (Card Stock Models). My
online research on, (and a visit to), Pad 34 has not yielded good
details, on the hold down structures. The only thing left of the pad
is the concrete structure. The hold downs have been removed. All the

We were having a discussion here a while back about the aircraft with
the longest operational career; at 71 years and counting it might be the
DC-3.
Here's a description of what one's like: http://tinyurl.com/ynjxdc

Watching my new DVD on Tommorrowland  Space and Beyond, (Man in the
Moon) I saw something that I had not noticed or remembered before.
While the RM-1 moonship is illuminating the backside of the moon with
flares (very cool) instruments pick up high radiation readings ahead