08-20-2017, 12:43 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
Posts: 6,507
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Originally Posted by Jerry Irvine
I have in common with many notable rocketeers, whom I have political disagreements with, that the SPEV rocks. It went from massive oversupply to massive love. I wouldn't be all that surprised if John Boren has a plastic molded version of SPEV on the worklist.
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I hope so--not only because the S.P.E.V. itself looks cool, but also because its parts could be used to build a scale Thor-Agena B (or a Thor-Agena A, just by shortening the Agena tube by the appropriate amount; the earlier Discoverer satellites were orbited by Thor-Agena A vehicles). |