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On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 17:55:50 -0500, Pat Flannery <flanner@daktel.com
What's the purpose of the thing that looks like a boom-mounted white
room alongside the Skylab station in this photo:
http://www.launchcomplexmodels.com/Pics/skylab-KSC-73PC-1...
Started by Pat Flannery on
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by 6 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at omgili):
I seem to recall entering the Skylab
ripped off 63 seconds into ascent, tearing away one solar panel wing and
debris jamming the remaining objectives
being met.
Prior to launch.
The Skylab to check
stowage, equipment, etc.
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On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:21:30 +0900, Neil Gerace <grassynoel@iinet.net.au
http://pics.livejournal.com/grassynoel/pic/0001k1rz/
If it's a fake, what is it a fake of?
Pic taken at the Balladonia Roadhouse, 16 October.
Started by Neil Gerace on
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by 7 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at omgili):
But what it *is* is a
very good:---------------------....
/2008/02/balladonia_skylab_05.jpg
Manufacturing Skylab debris seems to be a Australian pastime:
http;jeff.findley@ugs.nojunk.com
...That's not part of Skylab, that's for sure.
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I know the Mir and Skylab space stations returned to Earth and burned up in the atmosphere, and even talk about the demise of the International Space Station, but why?
I know gravity eventually decays the orbit but is there no effective way to boost stations...
Started by Beau08 on
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by 7 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at collectspace):
To avoid a conjunction with a piece of debris, but it also covered the need for a planned reboost a week And with Skylab, the design precluded any practical means of refueling its propulsion system, thus giving with it, there isn't much....
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Mercury crews donned their spacesuits in a suiting room next to their suite in Hangar S. Apollo, Skylab and Shuttle astronauts suited up in their crew quarters.
Does anyone know why the Gemini crews would leave crew quarters in shirt sleeves and drive...
Started by Brock on
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by 11 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at collectspace):
LM-12
Member.
The airflow prevents debris from floating over.
Of aircraft hangars, there are some intrusions.
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I got this idea while watching the kids in out neighborhood jump on a trampoline:
What if a large device could be launched into low earth orbit to intercept and deflect the direction of travel of space debris. The orbit could be adjusted to send the ...
Started by TOG on
, 15 posts
by 6 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at nasaspaceflight):
- Ed Kyle into a desired direction? Gentle attachment would, it seems to me, reduce the likely creation of new debris direction, then we win.....
It seems to me, reduce the likely creation of new debris from a "trampoline" type collision.
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From http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/ar ... /?p1=Blogs
The US Naval Research Laboratory is proposing to encircle the Earth with tungsten dust in an attempt to bring down dangerous space junk
Space junk is a serious problem, particularly in some orbits...
Started by warren on
, 7 posts
by 1 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at ozsatboxes):
To clean up after ourselves, but most ideas to clear space of debris—zapping it with ground-based lasers on objects orbiting above the 600-mile mark, slowing the itty-bitty debris down enough to fall mean vacuuming up debris with....
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Ames Imaging Experts Create Unique Views of STS-134 Launch
06.03.11
Imaging experts funded by the Space Shuttle Program and located at NASA's Ames Research Center prepared this video by merging nearly 20,000 photographs taken by a set of six cameras capturing...
Started by robertross on
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by 11 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at nasaspaceflight):
The camera lens would capture it.
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Index
What In The World Happened Here?
(Solved puzzles only!)
What In The World Happened Here? I: ( Link )
wagga
Trinity (first nuclear test 1945)
What In The World Happened Here? II: ( Link )
wagga
Battle of Hastings (Norman conquest of England in 10...
Started by AlanK on
, 6 posts
by 3 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at whitneyzone):
Video
Edited....
(What a name!) The farmer was no relation to Lee Ho Fook of SoHo fame, so go back to your dish of beef chow mein .
Note on XXIX: In 1869, Ned Kelly, who was then 14 years old, was arrested for assaulting a Chinese pig farmer named Ah Fook .
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On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 05:12:02 -0400, "Dave" <noway1@nohow2.not
Warning...only read this if you want to get really, REALLY pissed.
As a truck driver, I see stupid shit on the roads daily that truly pisses me
off. But rarely do I see something that...
Started by Dave on
, 4 posts
by 3 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at omgili):
Reports on the car radio, it was a festival of flying objects
to rival the orbital decay of Skylab-up crash
debris (mostly on the left hand breakdown lane) and a small yard
sale's worth of clothes.
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On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:30:28 -0400, "Baydlor" <baydlormapson@hotmail.com
I've just gotten back into this newsgroup and this may have been already
mentioned somewhere but I need to ask this.
How does one make an attack on a heavily populated planet...
Started by Baydlor on
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by 6 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at omgili):
The potential city-smashing debri in orbit there and what
the loss of the orbital food supply would do of the time when Skylab was falling out of orbit and what it
was thought it could do to a major city like New York if the debri....
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