This is not Part 15. But it will
be brief. I guess
most of us have heard the news
about the accidents of 2 different
spacecraft systems last week.
The NASA/Orbital Sciences Rocket
was lost. I understand there were
several satellites aboard, including
at least 1 ham radio satellite. These
were lost, along with the supplies for
the International Space Station.
The crash of Virgin Galactic's Spaceship 2
is very sad. One man was lost and the other
was seriously injured. The only other thing
I really wanted to put out there is that Spaceship 2
reminds me of the old X-15 - - or even more - -
the DynaSoar X-20, which never flew.
I think the resemblance of the Spaceship 2 vehicle
to the DynaSoar X-20 from 1963 is pretty amazing.
I think they are very similar in apprearance.
I guess the Part 15 board is not really the place for
this - but does anybody know of a place on the net
to talk about this aviation stuff? You know - sort of
like here - but about rockets and space flight - etc.
Thanks, Bruce
Rockets are involved with radio since they have on-board communication systems and there are toy rockets that operate with Part 15 RC transmitters.
It would appear that rocket technology is not evolving as we seem to be using the same old technology to launch up into space.
No matter what we build, human devices always seem to have flaws and accidents keep happening.
The safest thing in the world is Part 15 radio, unless you dabble in carrier current. Turns a man into a rocket ship.
You always come to my rescue one
way or the other.
I did some hobby rockets. There are
some funny stories there.
Bruce
I read this thread several times because i was distracted by the Bad Idea T-Shirt ads. lol
*mutters to self, i am a married man, i am a married man*
Rock 95 if that ad distracted you it proves you are a real man.
It distracts me too.
It reminds me of Susan H____, a woman I knew back during the years when I knew women. She was the spitting image of the T-shirt model. Even her spit was exciting.
Uh, er, ehem. Uh - so one other
comment I wanted to make was
that we are not in a race to the
moon with the Russians like in the
1960s, but now there is a race to make
money in space.
I remember when I was in 4th grade. (1964.) My
teacher Mr. Perzinouski said the U.S. would
put people on Mars (and have them come back,
too) by 1985. Wow, was he wrong. But we all
thought he was right.
And then there's Project Orion. The Atomic driven
spaceship that was on the drawing board in the
late 1950s. The idea faded away, but it's quite a
story. These guys had the slogan:
"Mars by 1965, Saturn by 1970."
It was an outlandish idea to eject 1000
atomic bombs out the back of a spacecraft,
and have them ignite one at a time just
as they came out the back. There was to
be a HUGE pusher plate on the back of the
ship. This would absorb the 1000g acceleration
so the human crew would survive.
The ship was to be BIG. Control rooms, offices,
even a barber shop. And a cafeteria with a big
window running along the side. That way the
people eating dinner could watch Saturn go
by before they sent a craft down to one of
it's moons.
Yup. What a story. Great reading. In the
1950s, they thought atomic power could
do just about anything.
Bruce