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I was reading an article about a new plastic that can withstand the dangerous bombardment of solar radiation in space better than aluminium can, another plus it said is that it is a lot lighter, you can read about it here An idea that occured, was what if you could produce a magnetic field with...

Hi all, I was wondering about all the people that worked at NASA when it all began. What kind of engineers did NASA employ to begin the Gemini missions? I can think of a few, Mechanical, Structural, Electrical, Aeronautical. Are there any others that have abilities that could have helped in the...

Well my thinking is if for whatever reason communication gets blocked or severed for whatever reason, the vessel would have to rely on its own system for navigation. Any ideas as to what kind of system the shuttle uses? It would suprise me if it was all ground based.

So what other intrustments would a vessel otherwise need to become completely independant of a ground stataion? Is it even possible to consider a vessel completely self contained?

Thats a good question, I think theres something about angles with the satellites at those altitudes, but I dont know for sure.

Well I imagine orbit definition would be easy to do on board. I imagine a camera with a field of view wide enough to capture the circumference of the earth, then have a computer analyze the image monitor for changes(altitude)? or to control the orientation of a rangefinder to point exactly...

Thanks guys! So if some information is gathered/processed on board, what kind of information does the ground station provide that the vessel cannot gather itself? I've read in numerous places that ground controls are essential to any flight and I understand basically why, but would a vessel be...

Ok, where abouts can I find out about the kind of flight systems that are used today e.g. Shuttle? By what means does the shuttle get its information? I know that a lot of information is collected and relayed on earth, but I'm curious as to what information the shuttle itself collects and how it...

I was thinking about this the other day... What could be a real world application for orbiter? Could its digital in flight system be ported of to a real vessel? I was thinking that the information that the flight system orbiter provides is only because it is all in a digital environment. But...

Airbrake works on the moon? :blink:

I must say I find the multi national involvement somewhat interesting. Thanks for the site though thats awesome!

i suppose everyone wants to be remembered

Yeh i got the same feeling from the site. But all stories tend to come from somewhere, definitely an interesting read though.

Thought this might be of interest. I would be keen to hear what others think about this :) According to article published in May 2010 issue of the Mufon UFO Journal …- Ben Rich, the “Father of the Stealth Fighter-Bomber” and former head of Lockheed Skunk Works,had once let out information...

cheers for the kind words fellas :thumbup: