Almost wished I'd not seen Neil land on the Moon. Ahhh the many days of
cardboard box command modules and egg carton back packs is gone for
good. The Gulf book "We Came In Peace" with the cardboard lunar module.
Which let me put every button on the control panels in my module. (I
wonder how many hours it took to draw those out?) My best friend that
used to explore caves with me moved away and I wrote letters to him
selling him spacecraft parts and I always got a letter back with all the
boxes checked meaning he wanted everything I was selling.
Wonder what happened to that guy? Anyway
Yeah if your going to run your own space program it makes a lot of sense
to do it the way they did.
Balloons
Solid Rockets
Rockoons
X-1 X-15 (which you can do remotely today)
Peroxide
LOX
It's a pretty straight forward path to follow. I wouldn't skip any of
those steps and you have to push the limits of each one. There is plenty
of crossover.
If you can do balloons and get good long range video and telemetry you
have made the right start, apply that to everything else and you have a
space program.
If you skip that vital step all the rest of your program will be
lacking.
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Subject: [AR] Re: Peroxide/Gasoline Engine
From: "John Dom" <johndom@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, December 17, 2015 4:07 am
To: "(AR) ocket List" <arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Interesting your old paper on the Bell X-1B’s RCS. All HTP those days… after
X-15, hydrazines/NTO became preferred.
As to the AR archives there is very little still existing from around and
certainly from before the millennium. Forever lost I’m afraid.
So you were not born yet at the time Neil and Aldrin stepped on the Moon.
Like most on this list probably.
jd
From: arocket-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:arocket-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Lloyd Droppers
Sent: dinsdag 15 december 2015 23:08
To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [AR] Re: Peroxide/Gasoline Engine
Do you have a link to the papers for the Black Arrow / Black Knight design
paper that includes technical details? I have only ever seen non technical
papers or technical ones that were not particularly detailed.
This is more out of curiosity on my side as most of the peroxide work that I
have done is smaller monopropellant and that work relies heavily on the
1960's NASA work like NASA TN D-1808 and NASA TN D-516.
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/pdf/87696main_TND-185.pdf
I may have missed the 1998 Arocket discussion as I was more focused on
lacrosse than rockets at age 16.
Lloyd