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... developed assume neither power supplies nor on-board laser devices and therefore are bound to remote laser stations like a kite via a laser beam "string". This is a fatal disadvantage for a space vehicle ... water as a propellant. This mode change can be performed by switching between a high power continuous wave (cw), LD engine for high thrust with a low specific impulse mode and high power LD pumping ...

We will probably need a rocket-powered launch. Rocket motors contain the oxidizer—that is, the oxygen source needed for combustion& ...

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... commentator. You know, we had one person. Back in the old days when we had John A. “Shorty” Powers, we called him “Voice of the Astronauts” or “Voice of Mission Control,” whatever his little ... , we had “Shorty” Powers, and “Shorty” was “the Voice of the Astronauts,” and everyone remembers him from his voice at mission control. Paul was on the console, and that was a change that Brian ...

... 12, when the lightning struck the vehicle and caused a major power outage, you would think, well, normally the parameters that are powered would go to zero and just kind of read zeroes ... —you know, they weren't the A Team—they had gotten themselves in a sequence where they dropped power on the vehicle. They dropped all the power on the vehicle to go on battery ... the kind of program that was small enough that Chuck Mathews and John Yardley could manage it. Apollo was a different kind of program, much larger, much more diverse. The Apollo program ...

... high grades, they would get extra money and things like that. So you had a certain amount of power, but at the same time the contractor has his own administrative staff. But ... at that particular time, but it was somebody who had written a number of books on the solar system; this was John A. Wood from Smithsonian Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics . Another fellow who was probably one of the finest mineralogists in the country, a young fellow by the name ...

... what he feels like - that is true freedom, and a powerful society empowers and encourages that (more than ours does yet). Yet such a person also has an educated and understanding self-consciousness ... . My PhD thesis adviser at Harvard, Dr. Karl Deutsch, was a man like that—a man of great vision, with a visibly powerful and great and benevolent soul, who did not believe at all ... . If Mani had worked for DOD, I can imagine how a John Nash might have concluded that he was a CIA agent with a camera in my room; the probabilities were just "way too ...

... were reflecting the models of the electrical power system or the thermal control system, that they were reflecting what was happening. And it was really a mess. We struggled through that. We ... . One—sorry it’s a woman—but she wrote a power-down procedure, and because it assumed the loss of something or other, they had to go into a lower power mode. So she gave ... he went back, and we just had to make one modification, which was to give John Young a copy of all of the crew schedules, and it worked fine. The schedulers, all ...

... you're fourteen, fifteen? '''Armstrong:''' I believe you could get it in a glider at age fourteen, but in a powered aircraft you had to wait till you reached your sixteenth birthday, and ... always do. There's no power on the aircraft, so you're always a glider after the rocket burns out. The rocket only burned for a minute and a half. '''Brinkley:''' Did any of ... 'd like to do one more time after watching John Glenn go back up recently as a— '''Armstrong:''' If they offered me command of a Mars mission, I'd jump at it. Laughter ...

... Each lunar outpost will require a surface power system, communications/navigation systems, Rovers, habitat and laboratory facilities (King and Cook 2005). A LDC could serve as a mechanism that would allow ... organization, Praxis Publishing: West Sussex, England. Heinlein, Robert A. (1966). The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, Putnam: NY, NY. Kennedy, John F. (1961). "Special Message to the Congress on ...

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