To: RightWhale; RadioAstronomer
This was not the first ion motor to fly. That was my point, exactly.
90 posted on
09/03/2006 8:18:48 PM PDT by
Gondring
(If "Conservatives" now want to "conserve" our Constitution away, then I must be a Preservative!)
To: Gondring
Goddard had an experimental ion motor set up in his lab 75 years ago. The vacuum chamber was black pipe.
103 posted on
09/04/2006 7:45:31 AM PDT by
RightWhale
(Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
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