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From: sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu (Doug Mohney)
Subject: Re: Making up nonsense (was Re: Man in space ... )
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 92 18:15:13 GMT
Organization: Computer Aided Design Lab, U. of Maryland College Park
Reply-To: sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu

In article <1992Nov6.155209.1@fnalf.fnal.gov>, higgins@fnalf.fnal.gov (Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey) writes:
>
>Evidently Andy has seen *Total Recall* but not *2001*, or, if he's
>seen both, he believes the former has more accurate science than the
>latter.

C'mon, you must know that Arrrrrnold would never make an inaccurate movie,
especially the parts where people shoot at him with zillions of weapons and he
somehow manages, despite his large cross-section, not to get it. 

				Yah, I am Hans, and you are Franz...


                 Play in the intelluctual sandbox of Usenet 

  -- >                  SYSMGR@CADLAB.ENG.UMD.EDU                        < --
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Telescope resolution
From: roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov (John Roberts)
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 04:53:52 GMT
Distribution: sci
Organization: National Institute of Standards and Technology formerly National Bureau of Standards
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Original-Sender: isu@VACATION.VENARI.CS.CMU.EDU


-From: nickh@CS.CMU.EDU (Nick Haines)
-Newsgroups: sci.space
-Subject: Re: Putting air on the moon
-Date: 9 Nov 92 16:21:57 GMT
-Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University

-In article <BxF0E2.7Ks.1@cs.cmu.edu> roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov (John Roberts) writes:

-   [about big telescopes]

-   The formula I found for the diffraction resolution limit of a telescope
-   (which ought to be put in the FAQ list) is 
-     alpha = 2.1E5 x lambda / d

-   where alpha is the resolution in arc seconds, lambda is the
-   wavelength being observed, and d is the diameter of the telescope
-   (same units as lambda).

-The easy formula is

-	alpha = lambda / r

-where alpha is in radians, and r is the radius of the telescope.

That comes out to double the formula I found in the astronomy textbook.
Could it be that "r" in your formula should be aperture (=diameter)?

John Roberts
roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov

Newsgroups: sci.space
From: drickel@bounce.mentorg.com (Dave Rickel)
Subject: Re: oxygen atmospheres
Originator: drickel@bounce
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 08:39:45 GMT
Organization: Mentor Graphics 
Keywords: 
Followup-To: 


In article <BxKMMp.4F2@zoo.toronto.edu>, henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
|> Actually, no, most shuttle missions do not do EVAs at all.  There are three
|> reasons for wanting to use Earth-normal air when you can:
...

Additional reasons--more comfortable for the occupants (the Apollo astronauts
had problems with the low humidity of their atmosphere, the Skylab astronauts
had problem hearing--they had to talk louder than usual).


david rickel
drickel@sjc.mentorg.com
Newsgroups: sci.space
From: palmer@sfu.ca (Leigh Palmer)
Subject: Re: Comet Collision
Organization: Simon Fraser University
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 20:53:44 GMT

In article <1992Nov5.150851.19861@pixel.kodak.com> dj@ekcolor.ssd.kodak.com
(Dave Jones) writes:

>Oh, they used Sakharov's Cold Fusion (mu meson catalysis) for energy.
>Anything else?

Sakharov's!? How 'bout Alvarez? For that matter, why do you omit mention of
*Jones*? Have you no family pride? He's the guy who actually did it.

Leigh
From: jdnicoll@prism.ccs.uwo.ca (James Davis Nicoll)
Subject: Re: astronauts voting
Organization: University of Western Ontario, London
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 20:58:54 GMT

In article <1992Nov9.193810.2996@julian.uwo.ca> crispin@csd.uwo.ca (Crispin Cowan) writes:
>In article <1992Nov9.180712.18824@julian.uwo.ca> jdnicoll@prism.ccs.uwo.ca (James Davis Nicoll) writes:

>>	With the exception of voters in  Quebec (Quebec ran its own
>>'referendum' with slightly different rules), I do not think Canadians
>>were allowed absentee ballots  in  the recent 'referendum'.
>
>This is false.  I have two friends who used absentee ballots for the
>referendum.

	The one recent posting  I make  that gets  general commentary,
and I screw  up. For the record, I was wrong.  

	The funnt thing is, I could swear  I read  a  posting from a
Canadian abroad who wasn't allowed to vote...

						James Nicoll
From: sdd@zip.larc.nasa.gov (Steve Derry)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Galileo Delta-DOR Passes
Date: 13 Nov 1992 17:06:48 GMT
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA  USA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: zip.larc.nasa.gov
Keywords: Galileo, DSN, Navigation, Ranging

I've seen quite a few references to delta-DOR passes in the Galileo status
reports posted recently.  These appear to be some sort of precision
navigation technique being used to prepare for the Earth 2 flyby.

Does anybody have any details about what these are and how they work?

Thanks!

-- 
Steve Derry
NASA LaRC
<s.d.derry@larc.nasa.gov>
Xref: sparky sci.space:15676 sci.astro:11851
From: young@wattle.dg.oz (Philip Young)
Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.astro
Subject: The Big Picture
Date: 10 Nov 92 03:26:54 GMT
Followup-To: sci.space
Organization: Data General Australia

Given our propensity to fling hardware into the heavens, and our desire
to get a good handle on what's very old and far away, has anybody done
any serious investigation of the possibility of tacking astronomical eyes
on craft headed for interstellar space which would be suitable for
verrrrrrrrrrrry long baseline interferometry?  We're not just talking
Earth orbit here. Seems to me we have the clocks, the computers, the
comms.  What would be the shortest frequency we could realistically
deal with?  Could costs be contained with a standardized, shrink-wrapped
observatory package?  What might we discover with a (radio?) telescope
whose effective diameter increases 10E+4 km/sec or more for the forseeable
future?

-- 
Philip R. Young                  | 1.79E+12 furlongs per fortnight ...
Data General Australia Pty. Ltd. | It's not just a good idea, it's the law.
 
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From: higgins@fnalf.fnal.gov (Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey)
Subject: N-1 giant Moon rocket photo in *AvLeak*
Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 19:57:03 GMT

I think this one can't wait for Henry's summaries...

The new 9 November issue of *Aviation Week* just hit my mailbox.  On
page 65 is a nice photograph of the Soviet N-1 rocket on its pad with
service tower.   The N-1 was the "Soviet Saturn V," the BIG rocket
whose failure doomed their manned lunar landing program.

The photo, taken in 1968 or 1969, was given to American educator Edwin
N. Cameraon by an official of NPO Energiya.  Other photos Cameron took
at Baikonur-- I mean Tyuratam-- show the N-1 service tower as it
appeared today, and an old N-1 shroud that's been converted into a
toolshed.

The N-1 has always been cloaked in secrecy, and this is only the
second photo of it that's been published in the West.

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From: 3001crad@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Charles Frank Radley)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: Automated space station construction
Date: 10 Nov 92 13:35:46 GMT



Space Station Freedom is Apollo type technology ?
Really ?

Using ADA and 386 / 586 processors and Nickel Hydrogen batteries,
-
It isd a pretty conservative design, but a lot of new stuff has
become available since Apollo
From: pgf@srl03.cacs.usl.edu ("Phil G. Fraering")
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Marsquakes...
Date: 7 Nov 92 04:24:58 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.BxBwB8.8KB.1
Distribution: sci
Organization: [via International Space University]
X-Added: Forwarded by Space Digest
Original-Sender: isu@VACATION.VENARI.CS.CMU.EDU

The article Ron Baalke posted talked about magnitude
five and six and whatever quakes happening on Mars...

Is that the Ricter scale or something else?


-- 
Phil Fraering

We'll not fade out too soon
Not in this finest hour
Whistle your favorite tune
Newsgroups: sci.space
From: russ@pmafire.inel.gov (Russ Brown)
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 16:44:29 GMT
Organization: WINCO
Subject: Re: "average" underground nuclear explosion (was : moving comets)
Summary: 
Followup-To: 
Distribution: sci
Organization: WINCO
Keywords: 

In article <Bx3J9M.KCL.1@cs.cmu.edu> pgf@srl05.cacs.usl.edu ("Phil G. Fraering") writes:
>
>
>>I read once that the average underground nuclear explosion created spaces
>>in rock half a mile across.  (Anyone confirm this?)
>>Andy.
>
>Average underground nuclear explosion? This implies that they're
>naturally occuring or something...
>
>I think it's a lot less than this, otherwise the underground testing
>ranges in Nevada would be running out of rock...
>

The larger ones go about 400 ft high by 1200 deep.  Lots of smaller ones
were done.
From: wats@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM (Bruce Watson)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: Mascons
Date: 9 Nov 92 19:01:42 GMT
Distribution: sci
Organization: Alpha Science Computer Network, Denver, Co.

In article <BxBp22.3Jr.1@cs.cmu.edu| roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov (John Roberts) writes:
|...................................... The Earth does have an equatorial
|bulge (mentioned later in your post), which is caused by the rotation of the
|planet, which I believe has the main effect of perturbing the ascending node
|of high-inclination orbits.

The amount of rotation is proportional to cos(inclination), higher orders
neglected, so there is rotation at all inclinations except i=90 where it
is zero and i=0 where the ascending node in undefined.

-- 
Bruce Watson (wats@scicom)  Tumbra, Zorkovick; Sparkula zoom krackadomando.  
Xref: sparky sci.space:15803 alt.sci.planetary:303
From: soc1070
Newsgroups: sci.space,alt.sci.planetary
Subject: Re: Lunar "colony" reality check and Apollo fire
Date: 12 Nov 92 14:43:00 GMT
Organization: University of Minnesota CIS
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Nov11.225129.28676@gn.ecn.purdue.edu>, mechalas@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (John P. Mechalas) writes...
>In article <11NOV199215071378@vx.cis.umn.edu> soc1070                          writes:
>>
>>I'll concede this one. Re-reading the section of _Carrying The Fire_,
>>the actual cause of death is not explectly stated. However, death by
>>burns is implied. The text makes it sound as though the entire inside
>>of the capsule was consumed by fire. Probably sells more books that way.
> 
>I have not heard of that book.  Who was the author?  If you are interested,
>check out Mike Gray's _Angle of Attack_.  It's a history of the Apollo
>program, centering on the engineering aspects of the missions.  Fascinating
>stuff.
> 
>-- 
>John Mechalas                                          "I'm not an actor, but
>mechalas@gn.ecn.purdue.edu                                 I play one on TV."
>Aero Engineering, Purdue University                     #include disclaimer.h

_Carrying The Fire_ was written by Michael Collens (CM pilot on Apollo 11).
Its sort of a autobiography of his life as a test pilot then astronaut.

Great book, really well written.

------
Tim Harincar				Millions long for immortality			
Central Minnesota 			who don't know what to do with
Association of Rocketry			themselves on a rainy Sunday 
soc1070@vx.cis.umn.edu			afternoon. -Susan Ertz
From: jbh55289@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Josh 'K' Hopkins)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: CAPCOM?? Does it still mean ....
Date: 5 Nov 92 00:53:23 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.Bx7x51.7q5
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

Rick.Ellis@ofa123.fidonet.org writes:

>On <Oct 31 15:31> RICHARD F. JONES writes:

> RFJ> Didn't CAPCOM originally stand for CAPsule COMmunications?   And if it 
> RFJ> did, why has it not been changed in light of the orbitor and future 
> RFJ> missions?  Perhaps a OBCOM posltion for OrBitor COMmunications or 
> RFJ> something else??

>Why waste a good acronym just because the meaning has been lost?

In fact, I think that's a requirement for most NASA acronyms :-)  In my
experience, many people who use aerospace acronyms daily need to think quite a 
while to remeber just what it is they stand for.
-- 
Josh Hopkins                                          jbh55289@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu

"We can lick gravity, but the paperwork's a bit tougher."  Wernher von Braun
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
From: rrgd50@email.sps.mot.com (Chris Terwilliger)
Subject: Re: Russia's OPERATIONAL Starwars Defense System
Organization: Motorola
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 18:58:47 GMT

In article <1992Nov4.185152.2122@cnsvax.uwec.edu>, mcelwre@cnsvax.uwec.edu writes:
> 
> 
>           
> 
>                  RUSSIA'S OPERATIONAL STAR WARS DEFENSE SYSTEM
>           
> 
>                                    Robert E. McElwaine
>                                    B.S., Physics and Astronomy, UW-EC
> 
>                            
        
where did you get the great drugs????
From: petej@phred.UUCP (Peter Jarvis)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Launch sequence of events?
Date: 10 Nov 92 14:54:20 GMT
Reply-To: petej@phred.UUCP (Peter Jarvis)
Organization: <BxDsr6.AG1@zoo.toronto.edu>o

In article <BxDsr6.AG1@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>
>The SSOM was written pretty early in shuttle history and I don't think it's
>been updated.  Don't take it as gospel on fine points.
>-- 
The Space Shuttle Operator's Manual was revised just a few years ago.
Although OMS-1 isn't used anymore as routine, it is if they have a main
engine go out, depending on the situation, such as ATO's.

Peter Jarvis.............
 
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
From: rkolker@nuchat.sccsi.com (Rich Kolker)
Subject: Re: Shuttle's rocket booster question
Organization: South Coast Computing Services, Inc.
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 00:17:22 GMT

In article <4021@phred.UUCP> petej@phred.UUCP (Peter Jarvis) writes:
>In article <17270@mindlink.bc.ca> Bruce_Dunn@mindlink.bc.ca (Bruce Dunn) writes:
>>
>>        I believe that the RCS thrusters also have the capability of
>>performing a de-orbit burn if the OMS system is non-functional.
>>
>This is true. The aft RCS thrusters can be used for de-orbit burn. Just
>takes several minutes, 3.5 times longer than an OMS burn, to do it. OMS
>fuel can also be cross-fed to the RCS thrusters.
>
>Peter Jarvis.........

OMS fuel can be crossfed to the aft RCS thrusters.  The forward RCS
are on their own.
.
++rich
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From: tom@igc.apc.org
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Date: 06 Nov 92 23:58 PST
Subject: Re: Software/NASA employees
Nf-ID: #R:1992Nov6.001418.7066@ultb.isc.ri:1359490177:cdp:1469200003:000:59
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!tom    Nov  6 23:58:00 1992


isn't cape canaveral the air force base just south of ksc?

Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
From: mheney@access.digex.com (Michael K. Heney)
Subject: Re: Software/NASA employees
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 19:30:48 GMT

In article <1469200003@igc.apc.org> tom@igc.apc.org writes:
>
>isn't cape canaveral the air force base just south of ksc?
>

My understanding of this is that it was originally Cape Canaveral, then
Cape Kennedy, then to the current setup, which is:
 
  Geographically, it's Cape Canaveral.
  On which you have the Kennedy Space Center (KSC),
               and  the Canaveral Air Station (CAS).

Many of the launch pads, including the new Titan complex, are part of
the CAS.  The Merrit Island Wildlife Preserve includes much (if not all)
of KSC.
-- 
Mike Heney                |   Senior Systems Analyst and     |  Reach for the
mheney@access.digex.com   |  Space Activist / Entrepreneur   |  Stars, eh?
Kensington, MD (near DC)  |     * Will Work for Money *      |
From: bonanni@oasys.dt.navy.mil (David Bonanni)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Shuttle Launch Info?
Date: 5 Nov 92 18:23:39 GMT
Reply-To: bonanni@oasys.dt.navy.mil (David Bonanni)
Followup-To: sci.space.shuttle
Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD

Hi all!

I saw a post the other day (which has now dissappeared from my reader)
which said that there is a DOD flight of Discovery scheduled for launch
Nov 19 1992.  Through incredible luck, I am going to be in the Orlando
area at that time, and I would like to see this launch.  I have some
questions, though, and if anyone out there could post or e-mail me the
answers, I would be most grateful.

1.  Can anyone confirm this date and tell me what time of day the launch
is scheduled (or point me in the direction of this info)?
2.  Will the fact that it's a DOD launch be a problem?
3.  How do I go about seeing the launch? ie, how early should I show
up, where do I go for the best view (or is there any choice in the matter),
who do I bribe :> etc.

I apologize if these are dumb or often asked questions, but I've just
discovered this newsgroup, and couldn't find a FAQ or anything.  Any
replies will be appreciated... needless to say, I'm all a-tingle at
the chance to the the shuttle go up!

dave
bonanni@oasys.dt.navy.mil
.sigless as usual
From: wilhelm@infoserv.com (John MacWilliamson)
Newsgroups: ,sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Russia's OPERATIONAL Starwars Defense System
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 22:47:31 PST
Reply-To: >>
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.5v4

          
>
>                 RUSSIA'S OPERATIONAL STAR WARS DEFENSE SYSTEM


      I like articles with lots of important-sounding words in all caps.
 I think my favorite was "JUMBO COSMOSPHERES," which must fall somewhere
between large and family sized ones.

John MacW
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
From: dave@dip2.ee.uct.ac.za (Dave Birch)
Subject: Re: South Africa in Space
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 11:45:47 GMT
Organization: University of Cape Town
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

South Africa has been working on this for some time, but only recently
has it been declassified. The company envolved now has to try and make this 
slightly more vialble. Asfar as i know there are no plns to launch a satelite using this booster in the next few years.
From: wats@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM (Bruce Watson)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: orbital elements for the next flight?
Date: 7 Nov 92 19:44:22 GMT
Organization: Alpha Science Computer Network, Denver, Co.

In article <1992Nov5.120338.1@mdcbbs.com| rivero@mdcbbs.com writes:
|
|  Anyone have initial orbital elements for the next shuttle flight at the end
|of November?
|

Here's what I'm using:

STS-53 Dec 2
1 00053U          92337.49670000  .00025000  00000-0  00000-0 0    19
2 00053  57.0000 149.9800 0000000 325.1800  34.8200 15.66125000    05


-- 
Bruce Watson (wats@scicom)  Tumbra, Zorkovick; Sparkula zoom krackadomando.
From: petej@phred.UUCP (Peter Jarvis)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Shuttle's rocket booster question
Date: 10 Nov 92 20:31:54 GMT
Article-I.D.: phred.4021
Reply-To: petej@phred.UUCP (Peter Jarvis)
Organization: <17270@mindlink.bc.ca>o

In article <17270@mindlink.bc.ca> Bruce_Dunn@mindlink.bc.ca (Bruce Dunn) writes:
>
>        I believe that the RCS thrusters also have the capability of
>performing a de-orbit burn if the OMS system is non-functional.
>
This is true. The aft RCS thrusters can be used for de-orbit burn. Just
takes several minutes, 3.5 times longer than an OMS burn, to do it. OMS
fuel can also be cross-fed to the RCS thrusters.

Peter Jarvis.........
From: phfrom@nyx.uni-konstanz.de (Hartmut Frommert)
Subject: Telnet access to spacelink ?
Keywords: telnet, spacelink
Organization: Dept. of Physics, University of Constance
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 09:23:55 GMT

Can someone please tell me if and how it is possible to access and use 
NASA's SPACELINK facility via telnet (I know how to ftp, but...) ?

aTdHvAaNnKcSe
--
 Hartmut Frommert                 <phfrom@nyx.uni-konstanz.de>
 Dept of Physics, Univ of Constance, P.O.Box 55 60, D-W-7750 Konstanz, Germany
                                           -- Eat whale killers, not whales --
From: forrepr@eng.auburn.edu (Philip R. Forrest)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Apology for Triple Post
Date: 10 Nov 92 16:55:27 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.1992Nov10.165527.1675
Reply-To: forrepr@eng.auburn.edu
Organization: Auburn University Engineering

Apparently, I have an over-zealous left mouse button.
It posted the same article 3 times before I could 
say 'USENET!!!' 

Sorry,

--
Phil Forrest - Ascent FDO wanna be
Auburn University Mechanical Engineering
Auburn, AL
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
From: forrepr@eng.auburn.edu (Philip R. Forrest)
Subject: Re: Shuttle's rocket booster question
Reply-To: forrepr@eng.auburn.edu
Organization: Auburn University Engineering
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 23:17:28 GMT

In article 4021@phred.UUCP, petej@phred.UUCP (Peter Jarvis) writes:
>In article <17270@mindlink.bc.ca> Bruce_Dunn@mindlink.bc.ca (Bruce Dunn) writes:
>>
>>        I believe that the RCS thrusters also have the capability of
>>performing a de-orbit burn if the OMS system is non-functional.
>>
>This is true. The aft RCS thrusters can be used for de-orbit burn. Just
>takes several minutes, 3.5 times longer than an OMS burn, to do it. OMS
>fuel can also be cross-fed to the RCS thrusters.
>
As strange as it may sound, a procedure exists to partially complete
a deorbit burn with the Forward RCS thrusters. It is called a 'Fast Flip'.
If the Aft RCS/OMS Prop level is too low to complete a D/O burn, the
shuttle will start its D/O burn in a 'nose first' attitude (Velocity
vector pointing straight out of the nose); then the 'fast flip' procedure
is executed by firing the +Z thrusters in the FRCS, while simultaneously
firing the -Z thrusters in the ARCS. The D/O burn is then completed with
the +X ARCS thrusters.

If the doo doo is really hitting the turbine that day (i.e. dreadfully
low on gas), OMS/RCS fuel can be conserved via a 'prebank' maneuver.
For example, deorbiting head-first with a roll angle of 90~180 degrees.

These procedures have been successfully accomplished by every crew of
every flight (at least after STS-26) during their pre-mission
simulations at JSC in Houston. 

--
Phil Forrest - Ascent FDO wanna be
Auburn University Mechanical Engineering
Auburn, AL

Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
From: kfarmer@wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu (keith farmer;S10000)
Subject: Re: Launch sequence of events?
Organization: Washington State University
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 92 23:49:54 GMT

>Shuttle launches now use a "direct ascent" trajectory, no OMS-1 burn is
>performed.  The time and duration of the OMS2 burn is a bit dependant 
>on the height and inclination of the target orbit, I believe; however,
>with no OMS-1 burn, I think the OMS-2 burn is closer to 2 minutes in 
>duration.  I'm sure someone will tell us ... ;-}
>-- 
>Mike Heney                |   Senior Systems Analyst and     |  Reach for the
>mheney@access.digex.com   |  Space Activist / Entrepreneur   |  Stars, eh?
>Kensington, MD (near DC)  |     * Will Work for Money *      |

Does this invalidate the Space Shuttle Operator's Manual?

Keith
From: sheart@toz.buffalo.ny.us (Saltheart Foamfollowe)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Russia's OPERATIONAL Starwars Defense System
Date: 9 Nov 92 22:57:29 GMT
Organization: The Tower of Zot - (716)8338-616

wolfone@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Patrick Chester) writes:

> After all, his EXTREMELY POWERFUL NEUTRAL PARTICLE BEAM WEAPON sounds 
> suspiciously like the Wave Motion Gun from "Spaceship Yamato." :-)
 
At least now I know I'm not the only one that used to watch Star 
Blasers!!  :-)


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