On 10/29/2014 5:20 PM, Leonardo Marsaglia wrote: > 2014-10-29 18:34 GMT-03:00 Dave Cole <linuxcncro...@gmail.com>: > >> I think that Nasa should resurrect the Constellation program. Nasa >> received most of the tooling required to make the Ares rocket. They >> even installed and tested the tooling fixtures. >> >> Having to pay Russia to launch our crap into low earth orbit is an >> embarrassment. >> > And imagine how far we would be now if they hadn't cancelled the Apollo > program. > > I've been reading something about the VASIMR motors to reduce the > travelling speed and they would be testing the first prototypes sometime > near 2013/2014, but I don't know if that happened or not. Reading wikipedia > it says that with this motors the duration of a possible trip to Mars would > be of 39 days. Pretty impressive. > > Anyway, the Plasma motors only would be useful in space, we still need the > rockets to escape from the earht's gravity, unless they come with a better > system.
Funny that you mention Apollo... I just heard that the engines on the Antares rocket that blew up last night was using 40 year old refurbished Russian rocket engines.. (no joke - Apollo vintage) A quick search verified that. They were originally made in the 1970's! http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/oct/29/russian-rocket-crash-virginia I'm always looking for a bargain, but why would anyone in their right mind use refurbished Russian Rocket engines from the 1970's for a launch in 2014 ?? Wouldn't that be a RED FLAG for most engineers?? What were they thinking?? :-( Dave --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
