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Well, the first Skylab reboost flight must take place in October 1979, so yes, STS production is accelerated in the alternate history (as noted in Section 2 of the manual under What If?). Granted, my use of real-life mission numbers in an alterntate history was bound to create confusion, but...

I don't think I was whining so much as observing an interesting fact: The second quarter of the 20th century was packed with genuinely new innovations that altered whole societies. Since then, not so much. I do not think that people are less creative, or more lazy, or have gone stupid. But there...

I am enjoying the first season of Mad Men on DVD - a dramatic television series that revolves around a Madison Avenue advertising firm in 1960. The writing and character development are great, but a truely extrodinary thing for this TV series is the attention to the smallest 1960 details. The...

Well on your way to constructing Moon2! Your finished station may mess with the tides on Earth :lol:. I love your Avatar, BTW. Ham is a hero of mine, ever since reading the description of NASA chimps in Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff.

Yes indeed - drunk or sober! And I cast my votes with the atheists. I held on to agnostisim for many years, but Richard Dawkins pushed me over the edge. I do need to be circumspect in expressing my lack of faith (that is to say, my rejection of fantasy) becasue I reside at the buckle of the...

Velcro Saturns includes launch scenarios for Saturn V and Skylab. Version 1 of Skylab1973 was just Skylab - to do anything with it you really had to perform additonal downloads. With Version 2 I just felt the addon should at least have its own launch capability. As NukeET points out, the addon...

What's good for you is not good for everyone, but it may be good for someone. There is nothing wrong with sharing experience and giving advice (especially when someone is asking for it, as in this case) so long as you grant your listener freedom to accept or reject your advice. BTW, I find it...

I originally worked out everything using SSU, which currently has only an Atlantis mesh. I cheated by naming the ship per the historical mission number. (When flying these SSU mission, try not to look at the name on the wing;)) In my alternate reality the first refurb mission is STS-41-C, a...

What an intersting read! Cheers to you for getting it started, FordPrefect :cheers: Before I enter into the group hug, a word to Kimball: I think you should have heeded the feeling that you were intruding. If you don't like the tenor of a Forum thread, leave it alone. A guy "exposes" himself...

Thanks! First credits for ProjectX-15 must go to GregBurch. Greg lives in Houston and right about now I expect he is sitting in a house with boarded-up windows and no electricity. But hey, it's bad for me, too... here I sit, expressing sympathy for a lawyer:dry:... Potentially damaging to one's...

Please feel free to put together an extesion pack of scenarios and distribute it under your own name and title - it can only serve to increase my own download count (and make me rich!:lol:). This touches on something that bothers me about my own add-on. The 1978 Reuse Study describes schemes...

Thanks to all! Donamy - I goofed! I have added a note to my initial post directing folks to my Orbithangar link. (The icons in my signature are a "secret" button.) Thank goodness I have DaveS backing me up. TSPenguin - Flexible use was a primary goal on this add-on, although I may live to...

Skylab is bigger and better! Version 2 of Skylab1973 includes Saturn V launcher. The Saturn B1 crew launches can be done with either NASSP or Velcro Rockets/Saturns plus AMSO. The Skylab mesh is improved with a smoother appearance, lower polygon and vertex count and some new animations for use...

Skylab1973 recreates the the first U.S. space station. The animations are extensive, from the on-orbit payload fairing jettison, through deployment of the ATM, solar panels and emergnecy sunshades, down to the telescope apperture doors! Version 2 includes Saturn V launcher, an improved mesh for...

This add-on brings to life the 1978 Skylab Reuse Study - a serious proposal by NASA and Martin Merietta Corporation to reboost, refurbish and reuse America's first space station. The add-on includes the Skylab reboost module; plus the airlock, docking module, solar panels and more needed to...

I am just now sitting down to tweak the autopilot. My gut feeling is that the autopilot pitches down too fast to 0 degrees immediately after stage 2 ignition, then it pitches back up to 40 degrees (pitch angles from the surface HUD). It seems to work better to slowly pitch down, under manual...

Sigh.... When will the Democrats ever learn the art of political judo, so well mastered by the Republicans? Go after your opponent's strengths. The Evangelicals are the only energized, true-believers (in the political sense) that the Republicans have in this election - witness the 13 pages...

Eureka! I too found the error in the SLA mass. The Scenario file had it at 3500 kg for each of the four sections. According to the Skylab Saturn 1B Flight Manual, NASA, 1972, the total mass for SLA and Ring was 3500 pounds. Divided four ways, the correct mass for each of four SLA is 396.9 kg...

Well, there you have it... whatever it is. Thanks, Greg, I think.... The 2nd (A well regulated malita being necessary blah, blah, blah) is perfectly straight forward compared to this. We should really be fighting over the 12th. *** Andy, I was just going for rhetorical effect. The War of...

The problem there is that our system has been pretty well geared for two parties. If I recall my junior high school civics classes correctly, a Presidential canidate must have 50% of the Electoral College votes to win. A three-way split runs the risk of no one reaching 50%. We have no system for...