Posted on 11/27/2004 12:49:19 PM PST by demlosers
Yes, it was cool. Not especially cool, just cool.
NASCAR on the moon?
Go for it.
Oh, good. Our robot landers can visit the manned Chinese base while they are there. ;)
Cool and so totally phallic.
I used to work Shuttle stuff, I've seen launches live, they are neat. One of my former co-workers worked Apollo stuff "back when." He said the Saturn 5 made the shuttle look like a sparkler.
They could have landed with zero RAM and were prepared to do so. As for riding the Saturn 5, banzai!, Buckaroo.
Good luck for NASA!
I really hope you succeed.
Ilan Ramon was the first Israeli astronaut. He was a great skilled fighter pilot who "was born with the stick in his hands". Also Ilan was one of the 8 pilots who bombed the Iraqi Osiraq nuclear reactor in June 7, 1981.
The first Israeli astronaut, Ilan Ramon, died in his first flight when the Columbia Space Shuttle STS-107 exploded together with other 7 brave American souls.
I really hope that the 4th (I hope you all know about China's first astronaut lol) country to send a human into space by its own space program will be Israel. We have the brain, skills, the technology, and we only need to arange the money and build a NOT expensive space vehicle and a good saving space progrem. IAF and ISA (Israeli Space Agency) sure know how to operate in 200% succeess with tight budgets (See: Israeli spy satellites and Israel's military technology).
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 we have ignition and liftoff of the first Israeli space-craft into space!
That was the gist of Kennedy's complaint during the Nixon-Kennedy debate, the missile gap. Also the point of Sputnik 1, 4 Oct 1957. The IGY Vanguard just a dildo.
I thought we tried this with the space station with less than spectacular results.
Sorry, 6 brave American souls***
Just out of curiosity, weren't the doc's for Saturn 5 destroyed as part of the deal for the funding of the space shuttle?
And, if you don't mind, what's on the drawing board that is "especially cool"?
later...
Mike
An Indian onboard, too. The Indian students in math class were crestfallen, nobody could talk.
You are right, sorry.
The plans were placed in permanent storage as if they would ever be looked at again. They wouldn't be much good now anyway. Best to start fresh.
They had courage, all of them. The least of them accomplished more than most people could ever hope to, but we'll do even more and go farther eventually. Got to keep trying.
Mostly I am seeing robotics. For spacecraft, though, some kind of system is being developed that will make it to the moon repeatedly and go to Mars. Kind of a real space transportation system, not just an earth to LEO shuttle.
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