spaceship one

Date: 6/25/2004 7:52 AM Central Daylight Time
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On 25 Jun 2004 01:05:57 GMT, (B2431) wrote:

Let's see, he's done quite a bit towards making aircraft cheaper with his
composite designs and innovations. Who knows what spinnoffs will come from
this
program?

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

I continually bump up against my perceptions of what cheap is, and
what other people consider to be cheap. I don't consider the EZ
series of airplanes to be cheap. I also feel that they are tiny,
don't carry much and are compromised towards the high speed end of
flight such that they land at excessively high speed. But that's just
me.

What spinnoffs might come from the X prize venture Good question, I
can't think of any.

Corky Scott


Remember the "space plane" NASA was working on that would get you from NYC to
Tokyo in a couple of hours? I think a spin off might just be the commuter
equivillent between Lost Angeles, Peoples' Republic of California and NYC, NY.
I know it took about an hour just to get to launch altitude, but SS1 is
essentially a proof of concept. Maybe Rutan has a 200 passenger version in the
back of his mind.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

On 25 Jun 2004 19:14:42 GMT, (B2431) wrote:

Remember the "space plane" NASA was working on that would get you from NYC to
Tokyo in a couple of hours? I think a spin off might just be the commuter
equivillent between Lost Angeles, Peoples' Republic of California and NYC, NY.
I know it took about an hour just to get to launch altitude, but SS1 is
essentially a proof of concept. Maybe Rutan has a 200 passenger version in the
back of his mind.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

I can remember two things that the public got their hands on that were
developed for the Space Program: Tang and a pen that works upside
down.

I recall someone mentioning that the Russians also realised that a
normal pen would not work in outer space, they gave their astronauts a
pencil....

Corky Scott

In charles.k.scott@
ddddartmouth.edu wrote:

I can remember two things that the public got their hands on that were
developed for the Space Program: Tang and a pen that works upside
down.

There was also the Temperfoam that a lot of us are using in our seat
cushions, and the emergency blanket I keep in my survival kit (pilots in
Alaska are required to carry one). Besides those examples there were
probably developments in lightweight insulation applicable to aviation
and I'd be be very suprised if the state of the art in storage batteries
wasn't advanced by the space program.

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Add a global communications system, smaller faster computers,
new construction material, medical technology, fuel cells,
and scands of other details.

But most of all?

A sense of assurance that, working together, we can do anything.

"Dream not small dreams,
for they have not the power
to fire men's souls"

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Earlier, wrote

I can remember two things that the public got their hands on that were
developed for the Space Program: Tang and a pen that works upside
down.

I recall someone mentioning that the Russians also realised that a
normal pen would not work in outer space, they gave their astronauts a
pencil....

The Fisher space pen was developed privately by Fisher using their own
funds.

The problem with pencils is that when you write with them, it
liberates conductive graphite dust, and occasionally bits of solid
graphite of non-negligible size. They also burn like freakin' roman
candles in the presence of ignition and pure o2. Not a problem when
you're in an 80/20 atmosphere and gravity pulls the smegma onto the
floor where it belongs. In a 100% o2 enviro surrounded by switches and
electronics... I'll take the thing that cost NASA less than $3/unit
and does't burn, thanks.

Snopes has a UL article on it he

http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp

Thanks again, and best regards to all

Bob K.
http://www.hpaircraft.com

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On 25 Jun 2004 19:14:42 GMT, (B2431) wrote:

Remember the "space plane" NASA was working on that would get you from NYC to
Tokyo in a couple of hours? I think a spin off might just be the commuter
equivillent between Lost Angeles, Peoples' Republic of California and NYC, NY.
I know it took about an hour just to get to launch altitude, but SS1 is
essentially a proof of concept. Maybe Rutan has a 200 passenger version in the
back of his mind.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

I can remember two things that the public got their hands on that were
developed for the Space Program: Tang and a pen that works upside
down.

I recall someone mentioning that the Russians also realised that a
normal pen would not work in outer space, they gave their astronauts a
pencil....

Corky Scott

Don't forget the little thing you're typing on right now or the thing
you GPS around with; the mobile computer (VLSI, which you are using
now) was developed specifically for the Space Program (Guidance and
Nav.) Without that, your entire house would be full of electronic
componants right now (or more likely, you'd send letters to us with
your Royal (pain) typerwriter and carbon paper.)


pacplyer