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[1.12.5] Cormorant Aeronology - Mk3 Space Shuttle
gooddog15 replied to Pak's topic in KSP1 Mod Releases
Si. Mcdonnell Douglas even seriously studied the possibility of rescuing and reusing Skylab in the late 70s using components developed for the spacelab program. Here's a link to part I of the study And a link to part II- 2,351 replies
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Flying a Shuttle-Skylab reactivation/reboost mission in my 1.3.1 game. It's sorta something I've been building up to for awhile
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Isn't the entire purpose of Tantares to spread the joy of gray?
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If a Moon or planet had life, what should we do?
gooddog15 replied to Spaceception's topic in Science & Spaceflight
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Couldn't the New Horizon had a impact probe for pluto?
gooddog15 replied to omelaw's topic in Science & Spaceflight
3 words: Every Gram Counts. New Horizons was designed to be as light as possible, allowing for the greatest amount of payload to be flung towards Pluto in a bearable amount of time. JPL wanted to have as many instruments as they could integrate into the spacecraft (they managed to fit 5), so an impactor is out the question. NH would have to have equipment used to track and monitor the probe until impact, specialized instruments that can analyze the impact, and a support frame for the probe that's useless after deployment. All of that subtracts any remaining mass dedicated for more important instruments like RALPH or ALICE, and would be just dead mass that would significantly hamper the secondary KBO flyby mission. -
Yeah I know that. It's just that haven't seen this type of abort scenario play out live before. Actually, come to think of it, I've never seen an abort before, only scrubs.
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I find it sort of hilarious and aggravating that Space X's main arch enemies are now boats. Also, that was one of closest aborts I've ever saw.
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What if the Saturn-Shuttle was built instead of what we got?
gooddog15 replied to fredinno's topic in Science & Spaceflight
The concept came around in order to keep Saturn V production going, so we could use it for a future return to the moon. It was deemed too expensive and so it was replaced by the rather inexpensive SRB's. Lowering the costs by doing this allowed for Nixon to approve the shuttle program. It's a pretty interesting but impractical design, and the concepts of mounting payloads on the top and bottom of the EFT were studied for the finalized shuttle design, but they were thrown away after the Challenger disaster.