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| Pat Flannery... |
 Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 3:49 pm |
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Rick Jones wrote:
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Is it me, or does The Schtick look like a giant dart sans the fins?
Will there be a mile-diameter dartboard target on the ocean where it
lands?-)
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Given that Air Force Range Safety report, they will probably be _hoping_
it lands in the ocean... ;-)
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| Greg D. Moore (Strider)... |
| Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 3:59 pm |
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"Pat Flannery" <flanner at (no spam) daktel.com> wrote in message
news:vMednXEsRLHvlnvXnZ2dnUVZ_uli4p2d at (no spam) posted.northdakotatelephone...
[quote]Rick Jones wrote:
Is it me, or does The Schtick look like a giant dart sans the fins?
Will there be a mile-diameter dartboard target on the ocean where it
lands?-)
Given that Air Force Range Safety report, they will probably be _hoping_
it lands in the ocean... ;-)
Yes, but they're going to qubble and insist on that ocean being the[/quote]
Atlantic.
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| OM... |
| Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 4:45 pm |
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On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:59:56 -0400, "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)"
<mooregr_delet3th1s at (no spam) greenms.com> wrote:
[quote]Given that Air Force Range Safety report, they will probably be _hoping_
it lands in the ocean... ;-)
Yes, but they're going to qubble and insist on that ocean being the
Atlantic.
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....And when it lands in the Gulf of Mexico, everyone's going to have a
field day with it.
OM
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| Greg D. Moore (Strider)... |
| Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 7:07 pm |
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"OM" <om at (no spam) sci.space.history> wrote in message
news:ri9ce596msd84pih17jk3qodrqsva4q9ao at (no spam) 4ax.com...
[quote]On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:59:56 -0400, "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)"
mooregr_delet3th1s at (no spam) greenms.com> wrote:
Given that Air Force Range Safety report, they will probably be _hoping_
it lands in the ocean... ;-)
Yes, but they're going to qubble and insist on that ocean being the
Atlantic.
...And when it lands in the Gulf of Mexico, everyone's going to have a
field day with it.
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Wrong Way Corrigan would have loved this ride. :-> |
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| Greg D. Moore (Strider)... |
| Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 7:09 pm |
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| OM... |
| Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 9:25 pm |
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On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:09:57 -0400, "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)"
<mooregr_delet3th1s at (no spam) greenms.com> wrote:
[quote]"OM" <om at (no spam) sci.space.history> wrote in message
news:ri9ce596msd84pih17jk3qodrqsva4q9ao at (no spam) 4ax.com...
On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:59:56 -0400, "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)"
mooregr_delet3th1s at (no spam) greenms.com> wrote:
Given that Air Force Range Safety report, they will probably be _hoping_
it lands in the ocean... ;-)
Yes, but they're going to qubble and insist on that ocean being the
Atlantic.
...And when it lands in the Gulf of Mexico, everyone's going to have a
field day with it.
Or an oldie but goodie
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.space.shuttle/browse_thread/thread/86a43d78a44c9ec7/897737e7155e7963?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=%22henry+spencer%22+day+SRB+lawyers+convention#897737e7155e7963
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.....Yeah, it's a shame Henry isn't around here to post classics like
that anymore.
OM
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| Joseph Nebus... |
| Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 7:41 am |
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Pat Flannery <flanner at (no spam) daktel.com> writes:
[quote]Joseph Nebus wrote:
Though come to think of it, how long did the Little Joe and Big
Joe rockets spend at the launchpad waiting to be gotten ready for their
tests?
Do you mean Redstone and Big Joe?
Little Joe was a multi-solid-fueled rocket test vehicle for the Mercury
abort and recovery systems: http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/litlejoe.htm
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No, I mean Little Joe and Big Joe. They were, after all,
rocket vehicles with a mighty loose connection to the actual intended
launch (Mercury on a Redstone, or Atlas), but allowed for the testing
of specific subsystems or procedures that maybe proved useful. The
Mercury-Scout launch has some parallel as well.
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| Pat Flannery... |
| Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 3:37 pm |
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Joseph Nebus wrote:
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No, I mean Little Joe and Big Joe. They were, after all,
rocket vehicles with a mighty loose connection to the actual intended
launch (Mercury on a Redstone, or Atlas),
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Big Joe was a boilerplate Mercury launched atop a Atlas D:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Joe_1
....that doesn't sound like a "mighty loose connection" to me.
Although "Big Joe" was the specific name for that test, it also was used
as a nickname for the Atlas booster for Mercury.
but allowed for the testing
[quote]of specific subsystems or procedures that maybe proved useful. The
Mercury-Scout launch has some parallel as well.
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Mercury-Scout was just a orbiting transmitter to get the ground stations
up to speed on how to track the actual Mercury when it came along:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-Scout_1
It had no relation to the Mercury spacecraft other than the name.
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| Eric Chomko... |
| Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 9:04 am |
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On Oct 25, 2:00 pm, "hall... at (no spam) aol.com" <hall... at (no spam) aol.com> wrote:
[quote]If 1-X is your goal vehicle, that's all well and good. If it's not,
you're spending a lot of money for nothing useful.
nasa is excellent and wasting money...........
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But the DOD is better and has more to waste.
Do you know the difference between the DOD and NASA budgets? Look them
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