#111
|
||||
|
||||
Quote:
That's what Gus Grissom should have named his Mercury capsule.
__________________
I love sanding. |
#112
|
||||
|
||||
Quote:
Wouldn't that make Gus The Space Man From Atlantis? Greg |
#113
|
||||
|
||||
Quote:
And Patrick Duffy would have played him in "The Right Stuff".
__________________
I love sanding. |
#114
|
|||
|
|||
Quote:
Kurt, thanks for the great info. That is an interesting article. I have occasionally had discussions on various sci fi lists with folks who think you can just stick all of human knowledge in a library and recreate an industrial society from it (context being colonization or post-apocalypse). There's a huge amount of art to any process which is lost when the practitioners are lost and is usually not recorded because it's not part of the "official" process. There's always something the workers know which isn't written down. |
#115
|
||||
|
||||
Quote:
That is a good article. Most all of them on The Space Review are. What I found most interesting was the concept that really you couldn't - and wouldn't - build a Saturn V today anyway. At least not like you did in 1969 as this paragraph points out (emphasis mine): Quote:
That's an ongoing problem with many old technologies. When our airline was flying DC-9 and MD-80 aircraft there were LOTS of components and "black boxes" that were designed in the '60s (and '50s!) that were a real bear to get repaired 40 years later. In many cases nobody - and I mean nobody - made the piece parts anymore. Many suppliers relied on cannibalizing scrapped components for the needed parts since no new ones were being manufactured. This also included many sealants, adhesives and insulating materials that just no longer existed. Wayne Hale mentions this in his blog post as well. It's quite a problem for NASA. Anyway, slow evolution is the way to go and of course that's not gonna happen today. The world has moved on and the Saturn V was left behind forty long years ago. Heck I can't even hardly operate a 10-year old computer! |
#116
|
|||
|
|||
ooops hahaha I meant Mercury Atlas. I would have loved to build all of them as a kid, The Atlas the Saturn V and the Space Shuttle. I couldnt afford those monsters though, and Dudes have you seen what an Atlas goes for on ebay right now? Over $200.00
|
Thread Tools | Search this Thread |
Display Modes | |
|
|