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HereAtTheCape
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posted 01-27-2001 11:26 AM
   
Hello from a new member, to folks at this GREAT Collect Space site. I'm just now catching up with BACK TO THE MOON, a fiction work from the "Rocket Boys/October Sky" writer, Homer Hickam. Anyone else have reviews & thoughts on this book?
I believe NASA is now having the SpaceHab company construct the 1ST INFLATABLE CREW SPACE MODULE, which will be used on the space station! Is that the wave of the future for space, and for moon lander modules?
Back To The Moon is quite a feast for all Apollo & space hungry individuals. Perhaps there were discussions of it back around the 30th anniversary of Apollo 11 (the time of its publishing), but I missed it all. |
X15toA17
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posted 01-31-2001 01:24 PM
I remember tempoary personal rescue inflatables were on the drawing board for the shuttle, but I don't know wheteher they were finalized |
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posted 01-31-2001 02:36 PM
One space probe landing I would love to have watched would be up on the surface of Mars. The Pathfinder probe was surrounded with inflatable spheres that were given the command to inflate before the crash landing (that is, megabounce landing). Now there's your best example of inflatables. |
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posted 02-03-2001 09:30 AM
ON THE SURFACE OF MARS, TO SEE PATHFINDER'S GIANT BOUNCING LANDING! Very nice & fanciful observation. But now, I'm still wondering what current thoughts on MANNED inflatable modules, and even manned inflatable landers (!) are, Spacehound |
HereAtTheCape
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posted 02-03-2001 09:35 AM
That's it. I'm just going to have to call the SpaceHab corporation this very morning (a free local call since I find myself living HereAtTheCape!).
I'm going to call to personally find out if the SpaceHab company HAS been contracted for this supposed giant habitation module for the International Space Station. HEY ISN'T IT GREAT TO HAVE APOLLO 14's ANNIVERSARY HEADLINING AT COLLECTSPACE!? A MISSION THAT WAS SO ENJOYABLE TO WATCH, WITH APOLLO REGAINING ITS STRIDE after 13. Apollo 14 cleared the way to make the big gamble on missions of deep exploration.
But in Hickam's BACK TO THE MOON adventure, there's such a bothersome error. I guess Homer placed it there purposely, calling "Fra Mauro" (Apollo 14's landing site) part of the APOLLO 17 SITE! q6
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