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Three Questions and An Opinion The Questions: In researching my upcoming Skylab Reuse addon I found a nice drawing of the Apollo-Soyuz Docking Module which shows the Soviet-style docking port with four out-turned "petals." Drawings in the Martin Merrieta Skylab Reuse study show three...

This can not be done in Multistage. Being able to program a limited "life span" for spent boosters would be Number 2 on my request list for the next versions of Multistage and Spacecraft. (Number 1 on the list being the mass problem brought up by Simcosmos). The only "fix" I know for spent...

You aren't dreaming and it isn't nonsense. It's a bit of a bug in Spacecraft2 and 3. It appears that Spacecraft_.dll totals up a ship's mass by ONLY reading the .ini file each time it is loaded, including all of its payloads. It does not read the current payload state from the scenario file...

My guess is that a "humanitarian" invasion will never happen. Does Burma have vast oil reserves (like the Middle East)? Does Burma's instability threaten to spill over into some portion of the "1st World" (like the Balkans?). Although I confess a shocking lack of geographical knowlege for...

Now I feel compelled to grant toddhisattva at least one of his points - Carter's Education Department does seem to have done some damage.

HOLY FU.. um, crap! Until I spotted the yellow info text in the upper right I thought this was a real life photo:ohmy: You Ultra guys are serious. Will I need a main frame to run this add-on? Thanks for the leads. ... Edit: Thanks all - and I feel foolish not to have looked on the...

I have been searching on-line for some basic information about payload accomodations in the Shuttle payload bay. Can anyone point me to some general info on payload allowable dimensions, attachment points/methods, cargo cradles/pallets? Is any of this stadardized, or is it custom construction...

Now you're on to something! I suspect (and in the conspiracy business, suspicions pass for solid truth) that this British mastermind seeks the humiliation and ultimate collapse of the rebel North American government, and the restoration of Crown rule over the Colonies. And that old "M6"...

Or.... Another instance of NASA fakery? Notice the blue haze under the "Orbiter" - a botched airbrush job to cover up the Revel model stand. PROOF! HAHAHAHAHA!

Iran wasn't ours (or Carter's) to give away to anyone. It was 53 hostages (not hundreds). Eight American service men and several innocent Iranian civilians died in an abortive rescue attempt - a funny way to "let Iran hold" the hostages. I would say Carter was honest and utterly ineffective...

Just downloaded and unzipped LaunchMFD with no problem.

For the record, I never called Bush an idiot. I just called him the worst President ever. Within any group of intelligent people there are a wide range of preferences, abilities, experiences and styles. (I am trying hard to avoid the trendy expression of "differing intelligences.") The...

I think it matters if the President is hostile to government regulation or favors it. I think it matters that ever since Reagan Republican presidents have been pursuing a course of borrow-and-spend big government - and calling that conservative!

:rofl: My earliest memories of news events: The Cuban Missile crisis and John Glenn's flight. The 70s are easy - remembering what I said last week is the challenge. I miss the palpable public excitement that space flight used to generate. That pretty much fizzled out during the 70s. For me...

Pitty... I thought that was a great guess. I have no guess of my own.

Thunder Chicken, I was with you right up to the end - McCain more honorable??? I used to respect John McCain. He was one of the only Republicans not drinking the tax-cutting, borrow-and-send kool-aid, he was one of the only Republicans to dismiss the lunatic Christian Right, he was one of the...

Andy44, Here is a link to the 1978 Martin Marrieta study: http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19790075817_1979075817.pdf The proposed system is exactly what you describe, an "Interface Module" with an airlock section. The free end of the I/M also had an adapter section...

I must take exception! Nixon inherited his screwed up war. He took several years and thousands of lives convincing himself it couldn't be won, but he finally gave up and made the best peace he could - not a great peace, not "peace with honor" but at least he faced facts and called it quits...

Thanks for the quick reply! I will be using Spacecraft3, so my choices for securing a payload to a Shuttle are attachment points or docking ports. Are there any other ways of joining vessels in Orbiter? If by "unlike the Shuttle Fleet" you simply mean that the location Ultra's attachment...

I am preparing to update Skylab1973: Improve the meshes, add Saturn V launch scenario(s) and add historically based reboost, rehabilitation and reuse scenarios using the Shuttle. I haven't played much with the Orbiter Shuttles, so I have a couple of start-up questions to ask the STS experts out...