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Wow that was a long time ago but during the build stream for Atlas (miss those days) it was decided that since it was balloon and you IRL couldn't attach to it without some insane weirdness that you wouldn't be able to in the game either.

It's sad that one of the pilots of this aircraft died mid-airing into my Semi-truck.... err avatar I am pretty certain that if you get a picture of that from a different angle you can see that the center engine is literally some of the First gen slab sided XLR-89 bells cut and spliced together it isn't a LR-105 (telling is the flat shelf just below the skirt)

The only way it would be worth it is if you were doing the RZ.1 or RZ.2 for the Bluestreak as it would be the same model

Honestly it depends on the Source. I know in every source I have and have written it is nm or nM not nmi But I also know "public friendly" sources that do nMile or N-Mile, IE places where they talk about Statute miles as miles instead of Statute Miles and please never abbreviate Statute miles as smile

Direct Download and install from Github<=>Spacedock.info>>>>>>> CKAN >>>>>>> Curseforge>>>>>>>>>>OG website I have long since forgotten

In the voice of Megamind! "Oh! It's Beautiful!"

Welp sorry for not posting. Between my Parents I have spent the month in the hospital more than I have at home with enough time to post article updates...! (everyone is fine!) Previous chapter is here:

I thought the KSP AVC was bugged and caused issues with many "code intensive" mods like B9PArtSwitch... Yet I see a notice in the upper left corner that AVC is running on your game? Maybe I am wrong But that is what I remember... Because I am using all the latests and have none of these issues... I would guess it is due to a mod that is not Benjee10 nor CobaltWolf nor the dependancies for Benjee or Cobalts mods.

Mcdouble has gone on to other things...it seems. My last DM was 3-4 years ago trying to get CRK patch going for Alternate Apollo. The Models are not at the high fidelity level as BDB but they work well in spite of this. GE's D2 program is an efficient take on the Apollo Needs as laid out in 1960-1961 time frame. Before LOR, Before LANDING on the moon etc... A great method of getting

Douglas was caught out on the S-IV program... Firstly,, no matter what, the delays were inevitable, they very quickly had to switch gears to the S-IVB and S-IVC (not the ETS reuse of that designation.) S-IV was entering "battleship" form when most of the engineers were switched to S-IVB. So no matter what, the delays were inevitable in my opinion. It was more the fact that NASA's Execs kept trying to stick with a "pre-moon speech" development plan, when the S-IV would never have gotten us there... so if you want to blame anyone... it is the Kennedy Administration. Given what it had to tackle and given that modern Hydrolox Stages are not as well insulated per unit pound as the S-IV and S-IVB... I think Douglas did a great job. Given the constant engine swapping in the time frame we are talking about, Saturn came when it did because of those decisions not because of something at a subcontractor (Douglas in this case.)

During my reaserch, on Titan, when I wrote my Titan articles 3 or 4 years ago, I found some refrences to people suggesting Saturn to launch Gemini. The reasoning that was used by Chamberlin et al. Titan is SOONER than Saturn. The Pogo issue you mention pushed Gemini launches back to almost concurrency with Saturn.

Impressive Work Zorg!

For those that haven't already noticed this... I am not covering the Payloads of Agena in this history of Agena development. That is in part because they would each need their own article. Also, while those payloads have been covered in many ways over the years, the actual development of the Agena is still less apparent to the average person... Hence, my focus is on the Agena itself. I do not plan to cover any of the payloads in great detail in the future either... So if someone wants to go down the reaserch-n-publish rabbithole on one or more of the Agena payloads... feel free to!

Agena Chapter 6: What? You thought we were done with Pied Piper? Link to the previous chapter!

Hmm... I may be a Dumb idiot... NASA HG-3 designation: Hydrogen Generation 3??? That was the Third Generation of Hydrolox Rocket engines

http://www.generalstaff.org/Space/Space.htmhttp://www.generalstaff.org/Space/Space.htm <<<---- New location for the Alternate Wars/BBOW pages you are referring to Zorg (this is the main space page) It is slowly being updated with the missing content like you are refering to... IIRC Achive.org has some good backups of the old Alternatewars.com/BBOW page (if I am remembering the URL correctly) Sadly some of the files are archived on archive.org and the rest are not

Agena Chapter 4: EXTRA!!! EXTRA!!! Agena Kills Vega!

Agena Chapter 3 Chapter 3: Wright Field, The Missile Pod and Pied Piper: Ch1: Ch2:

That is in a separate Agena Hypothetical article.... Sadly, there isn't a huge amount of info other than it had NOTHING to do with Agena, and it was just a "It is in the news it is being retired so a good name to use..." Kinda like Atlas itself I use Real names patch in the BDB Extra folders... so I only know the real names off the top of my head... not the BDB-ified names **BUT** going through the files it is the PXR-129 Sorry missed the first part of the question... the RL20 WAS a developmental engine that sometimes falls under the HG-3 name that is floated arround. It isn't a HG-3 since that was an internal name from Rocketdyne as I recall, but it is the same performance category. Zorg has the facts on that (I don't have the refrences he does for the RL20)

HG-3 did not exist... it was a HYPOTHETICAL PLACEHOLDER so NASA and industry engineers could build around it's expected performance. Best in BDB is the RL20 and the XLR129. Also sorry everyone, been sick so no Ch3 of Agena posted yet... It takes me about an hour and a half to post each chapter and I just haven't had the energy.

Here we go! Chapter 2 Agena: Pied Piper... AKA the hardest chapter to write... All the released documents are double exposed and super super blurry (no joke!) Tomorrow or Wednesday, Chapter 3 Bringing B-58 and Pied Piper together! Agena Part 1:

Article Time. Todays article is the First part of my Agena article cycle. This deals with Agena as produced up until its last order in the late 1970s. It does not get to far into the hypthetical, proposed or otherwise "Agena" devices outside of delving into KH-9 a little bit. I couldn't decide what the title should be so you have a few to choose from: OH and I ran it through a few iterrative algorithims (diagnosing, not writing) and they asked the following: Not bad, Most of that is actually well explained in the article but it is a nice small paragraph summation of the article and its intended purposes Tomorrow Chapter 2 Pied Piper!

The Agena in question are the GATV for NASA as well as Ascent Agena (which is a unique variant that does not have a designation and was the last 16(?) Agenas built in the late 1970s.) SOME of the last two batches of Agena D also had the Sump tank But it was a case by case basis... For a "Standard" Stage, Agena B and latter Agena D, had a LOT of sub-variants.

Ahh was waiting for someone to ask that. Did it Hot Stage? No, But yes. S-IV did have solid Ullage thrusters but it was always meant to stage on MECO for S-I stage so there ARE blow-out holes (half-ish circles on S-IV-260, and on the OG S-IV-240 it was Half-ish CONIC bumps, I posted a photo in both articles I published last week.,) Oh and we are not talking about my Great Grandma Ish! Titan with SRM almost NEEDS the SmartParts mod to do effectively! I also use Smart Parts for Delta when separating all 9 SRMs at once... it quickly (quicker than I can do it) stages 3,3,3 to prevent collisions and re-attack of the central core. I have had issues staging all 9 SRMs at the same instance. Atlas has it's own semi-smart part with the Booster skirt. Although I am tempted to use smart parts on it too....