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LIVE Thread - X43-A Mach 10 Launch
NASA TV Live ^
| 11/16/2004
| JAMBE
Posted on 11/16/2004 1:59:56 PM PST by Jambe
Live thread of 3rd and final X43-A drop.
Drop scheduled approx 5:30 EST. B52 is airborne.
TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: nasax43a; sr71is6plusmach; x43
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To: ChadGore
Comparing the 2 side by side is not a smart exercise. I know. The Shuttle isn't even flying right now, and if NASA is smart they won't fly it again.
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posted on
11/16/2004 2:49:43 PM PST
by
Moonman62
(Federal Creed: If it moves tax it. If it keeps moving regulate it. If it stops moving subsidize it.)
To: Joe Boucher
"Give that money to private business and we'd have men living on Mars by now along with having space as an every day type of thing."
I'm still waiting for the day when we all have our personal flying saucers, like in the old "Jetsons" cartoon show.
To: Recovering Hermit
Only 12' long? Must be really cramped in there.
103
posted on
11/16/2004 2:50:00 PM PST
by
Tennessee_Bob
(Come on you sons of bitches! Do you want to live forever?)
To: Jambe
Thank all for the live thread.
Looks like a success.
Pegasus ignition X43A separation and a significant scram jet burn, with maneuvering on decent.
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posted on
11/16/2004 2:51:10 PM PST
by
ChadGore
(VISUALIZE 60,724,666 Bush Fans.)
To: Steve_Seattle
When I was a kid in school I was told that space flight would be like a flight from la to vegas.
They lied.
To: Steve_Seattle
Give that money to private business and we'd have men living on Mars by now along with having space as an every day type of thing."And I know which 47% of the U.S. population I'd like to see go first!
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posted on
11/16/2004 2:51:49 PM PST
by
Jambe
To: Tennessee_Bob
Only 12' long? Must be really cramped in there. It's unmanned.. it will be developed into new super cruise missles capable of wacking targets from anywhere on Earth Quickly...
To: Joe Boucher
Re:
They lied LOL . . well at least our cars fly, and world peace is all around us. lol
108
posted on
11/16/2004 2:53:17 PM PST
by
ChadGore
(VISUALIZE 60,724,666 Bush Fans.)
To: ChadGore
it went over 7,000mph! good job!
To: ChadGore
OK guys...does this mean we get our flying cars I have been promised all my life?? Huh? Huh?
Red
110
posted on
11/16/2004 2:54:00 PM PST
by
Conservative4Ever
(Roots of grass and broken glass...to quote NetSurfer)
To: PhotoFixer3
it went over 7,000mph! good job!
Here here. Congradulations NASA Engineers on a job well done.
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posted on
11/16/2004 2:54:49 PM PST
by
ChadGore
(VISUALIZE 60,724,666 Bush Fans.)
To: Joe Boucher
"When I was a kid in school I was told that space flight would be like a flight from la to vegas. They lied."
I also remember as a kid seeing projections of futuristic cars, the cars we'd be driving in the year 2000, and they all looked like flying saucers on wheels, with bubble tops, fins, etc. Reality didn't quite turn out that way. LOL
To: ChadGore
OH NO! look IT DIDNT GET OVER 7,000 :( almost... take a look....
speed of sound it appears that the speed of sound changes at different altitudes...
To: ChadGore
altitude of X43A would make it Speed of sound 673mph x 9.32 = 9068.36MPH Still hauling some major butt and a major success at any rate....
To: PhotoFixer3
To: Tennessee_Bob
Earlier posters stated that there's no pilot. I wonder if anybody remembered to tell the passengers that...
To: Poohbah
Poohpah, I think youll have to bow to Southtack. Hes more right in that you wouldnt even have computers if the British hadnt developed radar & the magnetron to get the high frequencies.
The first spin-off in commercial applications and the forerunner of the microwave (I believe) was in the 50s when Weyrhaeuser Lumber Company used the same principle to heat the glue in plywood. Before that, you always had a scorched side from the heated press.
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posted on
11/16/2004 3:03:14 PM PST
by
Cribb
To: PhotoFixer3
The B-52, 008 launch vehicle flew its last test flight. What's going to take its place?
To: Cribb
Note that I said MINIATURIZATION of computers, not computers themselves.
119
posted on
11/16/2004 3:05:11 PM PST
by
Poohbah
(Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women!)
Anyone have the address of the NASA website with the test results on it? I missed it at the end of the NASA TV broadcast and there are no pointers from the main NASA site.
thanks
-tb
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