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Saturn 5 Blueprints Safely in Storage
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| 13 March 2000
| By Michael Paine
Posted on 01/08/2004 2:20:33 PM PST by Dead Dog
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To: Frank_Discussion
I'm about the same age, I only know of it from talking with the "Old Guys".
Weren't they worried about the actual force of launch hurting people and structures MILES away?
Screw 'Em! Were going to SPACE! :)
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posted on
01/08/2004 3:54:38 PM PST
by
Dead Dog
To: RightWhale
Neat!
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posted on
01/08/2004 3:59:13 PM PST
by
Frank_Discussion
(May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
To: Dead Dog
Some of the old timers at NASA said you felt it more than heard it. LOTS OF BASS!! When I was a kid I read a book about rockets that said we would never go to the moon because the booster that would be needed would be so large that the sound could kill people 30 miles away.
To: wideminded
Did Algore write that?
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posted on
01/08/2004 4:05:31 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle)
To: RightWhale
Cool, now I need to start looking for frames!
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posted on
01/08/2004 4:15:17 PM PST
by
Orangedog
(Remain calm...all is well! [/sarcasm])
To: RightWhale
They could do even better if they had a mission requirement to lift so much. "If you build it they will come." Haven't we had a whole slate of little puny missions to Mars because we can't get enough throw-weight behind a bigger craft? Real soon the President is going to announce a return to the Moon with a permanent base. They will need a 100-ton lifter and more.
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posted on
01/08/2004 4:17:16 PM PST
by
FreedomCalls
(It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
To: eddie willers
There's always room for Jello.
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posted on
01/08/2004 4:18:28 PM PST
by
Orangedog
(Remain calm...all is well! [/sarcasm])
To: Orangedog
I originally wanted to frame a set of blueprints of "the gadget" that was set off during the Manhattan Project Teller supposedly patented the staged Teller-Ulam fusion process. You could look up the patent. No I don't know the number, though I did read it in a book a long time ago.
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posted on
01/08/2004 4:20:29 PM PST
by
FreedomCalls
(It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
To: Orangedog
Make your own out of actual rocket parts. There's all kinds of rocket junk around. Check your local art dept for metalsmith artists if you have a university nearby.
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posted on
01/08/2004 4:21:52 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle)
To: aBootes
Thanks.
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posted on
01/08/2004 4:22:11 PM PST
by
snopercod
(Wishing y'all a prosperous, happy, and FREE new year!)
To: FreedomCalls
The Mars rockets aren't Saturn Vs, but they aren't all that small either. A manned Mars mission would take a lot more than one Saturn V.
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posted on
01/08/2004 4:23:53 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle)
To: Dead Dog
Forget the blueprints. The "can do" attitude is what America lacks today.
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posted on
01/08/2004 4:24:37 PM PST
by
snopercod
(Wishing y'all a prosperous, happy, and FREE new year!)
To: RightWhale
I'll worry about finishing my downstairs bathroom first. So many rooms to demolish, so little time.
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posted on
01/08/2004 4:27:18 PM PST
by
Orangedog
(Remain calm...all is well! [/sarcasm])
To: Dead Dog
Actually, they are called Boeing now. Not all of them. Chrysler was bought by the Germans, and IBM is still IBM. LTV went bankrupt, as did Johns Manville. Texas Instruments is still around, but they don't make transistors any more. I don't know about Chicago Rawhide.
Review the long list of contractors and major subs here: http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4206/app-e.htm
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posted on
01/08/2004 4:30:51 PM PST
by
PAR35
To: sonofatpatcher2
Did you feel it? That was thousands of dead Cold War Warriors turning over in their graves! Maybe, but the Russians were good at building BIG rocket motors. They had to be, because all their stuff, includiing their H-bombs, were HEAVY, compared to equivalent US designs of a technical generation earlier.
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posted on
01/08/2004 4:47:22 PM PST
by
El Gato
(Federal Judges can twist the Constitution into anything.. Or so they think.)
To: RightWhale
> scanning from paper to image file is labor-intensive
You have no idea. This is an expense virtually no company is willing to undertake (scanning millions of pages? Sheesh), especially if they have extensive files. And having seen NASA and DTIC documents that they've doen this with... you don't WANT 'em to. The resolution goes straight to hell. They are scanned in B&W, and saved as low-rez PDFs. Many drawings simply disappear.
To: Orangedog
I originally wanted to frame a set of blueprints of "the gadget" that was set off during the Manhattan Project, but I knew that was too much to ask for. Not really. The stuff you couldn't get would be the process specs, like how to refine the uranium, or forge/machine the plutonium without killing yourself. The drawings of the device itself are no big deal, and are probably available on the internet... if one knew where to look. You might start at www.fas.org. :)
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posted on
01/08/2004 4:54:15 PM PST
by
El Gato
(Federal Judges can twist the Constitution into anything.. Or so they think.)
To: orionblamblam
We have had excellent results with our local property records including subdivision plats. 1000s of drawings--many very hard to read in original--have turned out most excellently.
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posted on
01/08/2004 4:56:27 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle)
To: Dead Dog
To: RightWhale
The difference is... company performance is probably related to having good, clear records of those properties. The Sirius Cybernetics Corporation is unlikely to have much actual practical need for good, clear drawings of their T-5 Aerial Hunter-Killers from 40 years ago...
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