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SLS or Orion
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A guy on nasaspaceflight forum posted a link to this NASA update...some really neat pictures for modelers (note this was in the open forum, not their "L2" subscription forum, so it is for public viewing) It is a 39.5 MB file. If you want to stay on top of this beast, that forum is a really good source of space news...
http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/f...ly-28_Final.pdf |
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The Orion sure will be easier to model than the Apollo since the LAS is solid. Even I could do it! Hopefully.
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Yep! All I used was a wood dowel turned to the correct size. One dowel tip. Lately all the hardware stores and big box stores are carrying wood dowels made in the USA. Now this seems like a good thing and it is but...for turning and splitting, like using a 1/2 dowel for a wire raceway conduit, the Chinese dowels from Hobby Lobby are better. They are made of such "crappy" wood that they are much easier to split in half evenly on a band saw than the USA grown wood. Question...I talked to Tim at NASA Langley (he's a member here) about the fairing over the Orion Capsule. Does anybody besides me and Tim know the reason there is a fairing over the Orion Capsule but not on the Orion Pad Abort 1? The correct answer is a bit more complex than you might imagine.
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nice overview here http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/449088main_...ay_Briefing.pdf
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SLS is this country's next boondoggle designed to continue employing existing infrastructure, independent of need or value.
This country (congress) believes in maintaining manufacturing infrastructure of specific defense industries at whatever cost must be born. Fine, all I ask is we employ it smartly instead! Not "Managed by congress". |
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I don't care! In terms of this forum, I glad we have something new to model! And that's all! As much as I absolutely LOVE everything about the Apollo program it is over 50 years old. Now my hope is, in 2017 when the new Orion Abort Test Booster is revealed, I really hope Orbital Sciences decides to put some fins on it...and...rename it , Little Joe III ! Orion Abort Test Booster doesn't quite roll off the lips right.
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How Little Joe I got its name...
I bought a copy of “This New Ocean, the History of Project Mercury” for my kindle, and discovered it's available on NASA!! http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4201/toc.htm
just read this … funny! Quote:
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Oh.
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Yeah, I'm with you Jerry... But it is nice to have something else to model... can't have too many prototypes, even if they aren't particularly practical, have no mission defined, and will be THE most expensive launch system ever developed, and will likely be cancellation fodder before its ever fielded... Later! OL JR
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