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| Guest_DonPMitchell_* |
 Jun 13 2006, 07:52 AM
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Yep. Only one correction, it was Oleg Ivanovsky (the designer of the Vostok spacecraft) who told Yuri the codes, and Yuri told him that one of the Generals had already told them to him. It was not a well-kept secret apparently.
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Jun 13 2006, 11:30 AM
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QUOTE (dvandorn @ Jun 13 2006, 03:07 AM)  I'm pretty sure the early Mercury orbiters had something like a mechanical globe display that showed the pilot his orbital track, similar to the device in the Vostok. Is this what you are referring to: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/...ms/mercury2.gif http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/...ms/mercury5.gif -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Jun 13 2006, 11:44 AM
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Try this one
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Jun 13 2006, 05:43 PM
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QUOTE (Jim from NSF.com @ Jun 13 2006, 12:44 PM) Try this one Europa-I? Bob Shaw -------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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Jun 13 2006, 09:10 PM
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QUOTE (Bob Shaw @ Jun 13 2006, 01:43 PM) Europa-I? Bob Shaw nope |
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| Guest_DonPMitchell_* |
Jun 13 2006, 09:33 PM
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It looks like an Atlas-Centaur to me.
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Jun 13 2006, 09:40 PM
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QUOTE (DonPMitchell @ Jun 13 2006, 10:33 PM) It looks like an Atlas-Centaur to me. Don: That was my first thought, but it seemed too easy... ...it seems a bit squat, as well... Bob Shaw -------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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Jun 13 2006, 10:16 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 321 Joined: 6-April 06 From: Cape Canaveral Member No.: 734 |
Not an AC
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Jun 14 2006, 12:49 AM
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Jun 14 2006, 01:21 AM
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Atlas H had a 7' dia fairing.
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| Guest_DonPMitchell_* |
Jun 14 2006, 03:07 AM
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Yeah, I know it was too easy. Hmmm. It also looks like a Titan-3A.
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Jun 14 2006, 03:13 AM
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Ok, I cheated and found the photo on Gunter Krebs website where he identifies it as an Atlas-SLV3B Agena-D.
(It sure looks like an Atlas-Centaur.) |
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Jun 14 2006, 03:35 AM
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QUOTE (mchan @ Jun 13 2006, 08:13 PM) Ok, I cheated and found the photo on Gunter Krebs website where he identifies it as an Atlas-SLV3B Agena-D. (It sure looks like an Atlas-Centaur.) Good one Jim! I never knew there was a fat agena stage: QUOTE An Agena second stage can be used for large-diameter payloads by utilizing the SLV-3B (systems from SLV-3A; tank from SLV-3C) and the OAO fairing system.
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Jun 14 2006, 02:07 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 321 Joined: 6-April 06 From: Cape Canaveral Member No.: 734 |
QUOTE (DonPMitchell @ Jun 13 2006, 11:35 PM) Good one Jim! I never knew there was a fat agena stage: The Agenda wasn't fat (although that's what the C model was going to be). It is enclosed in the fairing, much like it was on the Titan 34B. This was the only SLV-3B version of the Atlas that flew |
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Jun 14 2006, 04:15 PM
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The pyramidal launch pad also gives away that it was an Atlas, as they designed their pads that way.
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