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Radar_Relfective_Spheres\\ | Radar_Relfective_Spheres\\ | ||
- | These radar calibration reflector spheres have been manufactured since the very earliest days of Raven Industries and Aerostar International still manufactures them today. | + | These radar calibration reflector spheres have been manufactured since the very earliest days of Raven Industries and Aerostar International still manufactures them today.\\ |
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- | {{geoff+airbags.jpg|geoff+airbags.jpg}} | + | |
- | {{412landerbag500x335.jpg|412landerbag500x335.jpg}} | + | {{geoff+airbags.jpg?450}} |
- | {{airbaginflate.jpg|airbaginflate.jpg}} | + | {{412landerbag500x335.jpg|412landerbag500x335.jpg}}\\ |
+ | {{airbaginflate.jpg?300}} | ||
{{parachute.png_nasa.png|parachute.png_nasa.png}}\\ | {{parachute.png_nasa.png|parachute.png_nasa.png}}\\ | ||
- | The Mars Pathfinder airbag system was designed to protect the lander regardless of its orientation upon impact with the surface of the planet. The system also was designed to handle lateral movement as well as vertical descent. | + | -The Mars Pathfinder airbag system was designed to protect the lander regardless of its orientation upon impact with the surface of the planet. The system also was designed to handle lateral movement as well as vertical descent. |
- | The result is a robust system capable of landing in rugged but scientifically interesting locations at Mars. Development of the airbags required significant design and test work, but the qualification program for the system was completed in April of 1996, 8 months prior to launch. | + | -The result is a robust system capable of landing in rugged but scientifically interesting locations at Mars. Development of the airbags required significant design and test work, but the qualification program for the system was completed in April of 1996, 8 months prior to launch. |
Creator/ | Creator/ | ||
- | Airbags are breaking the fall of the Pathfinder | + | -Airbags are breaking the fall of the Pathfinder |
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+ | -Unlike many other early space station concepts, this design actually made it out of the concept phase and into production, though no models were ever flown. This particular station was 30-feet and expandable. It was designed to be taken to outer space in a small package and then inflate in orbit. The station could, in theory, have been big enough for 1 to 2 people to use for a long period of time. A similar 24 foot station was built by the Goodyear Aircraft Corporation for NASA test use. The concept of space inflatables was revived in the 1990s.\\ | ||
+ | source: www.klabs.org/ | ||
+ | -On June 28, 1958, Charles Lundquist (right) gave a presentation on orbital trajectories at the Army Ballestic Missile Agency in Huntsville, Alabama to Hermann Oberth (left) and Wernher Von Braun (center). Von Braun was an active proponent of utilizing space stations as "base camps" to other planets and satellites. Hermann Oberth was Von Braun' | ||
+ | source: www.klabs.org/ | ||
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- | {{GPN-2003-00106-1.jpg?550}}\\ | + | {{: |
- | Unlike many other early space station concepts, this design actually made it out of the concept phase and into production, though no models were ever flown. This particular station was 30-feet and expandable. It was designed to be taken to outer space in a small package and then inflate in orbit. The station could, in theory, have been big enough for 1 to 2 people to use for a long period of time. A similar 24 foot station was built by the Goodyear Aircraft Corporation for NASA test use. The concept of space inflatables was revived in the 1990s. source: | + | Cocky Eek: from the series Satelite Girls: where girls realize there own space toys\\ |
+ | photo: Nathalie van Helvoort; model Tessa\\ | ||
+ | Polrad: "Moons for Future" | ||
+ | source: | ||
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- | On June 28, 1958, Charles Lundquist (right) gave a presentation on orbital trajectories at the Army Ballestic Missile Agency in Huntsville, Alabama to Hermann Oberth (left) and Wernher Von Braun (center). Von Braun was an active proponent of utilizing space stations as "base camps" to other planets and satellites. Hermann Oberth was Von Braun' | ||
- | {{Bigelow8680inside1E[1].jpg|Bigelow8680inside1E[1].jpg}} | + | {{inflate.jpg?225}} {{:126pic.jpg|}}\\ |
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- | image source: www.ktb.net/ | ||
- | The new Space hotels: Rooms for rent in orbit, on the Moon, Mars and beyond. | ||
- | 08:28 pm EDT Oct 21, 2005: | ||
- | If you thought that the future of private space travel is still far away, and will reach only sub orbit at best - think again. One year after the XPrize panned out, teams are racing to undercut each other' | + | {{24.jpg|24.jpg}}{{: |
+ | -The TransHab inflatable module was a concept proposed as a crew quarters for the International Space Station. The concept was tested but not chosen as a potential Station crew quarters, and NASA at present is no longer pursuing | ||
- | Space Adventures just brought the latest space tourist safely back home from the ISS at a cost of 20 million dollars. Sunday, Takafumi Horie, 33, the president of Livedoor revealed his plan to offer tickets for a two to three day orbit of the Earth at around 2 million dollars, using a Salyut space station. | + | Multi-level Living Quarters |
- | Yet the most interesting right now is perhaps Bigelow' | + | The TransHab, a design concept, could provide a large volume habitation module for the International Space Station while demonstrating its use for future transit spacecraft. The TransHab would be an inflatable living quarters as opposed to the more conventional space cylinder originally planned for the habitation module. |
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+ | Yet the most interesting | ||
+ | source: www.ktb.net/ | ||
- | {{inflate.jpg|inflate.jpg}} | ||
- | {{24.jpg|24.jpg}} | ||
- | **continue with images** | + | more inflatable image sections: [[Experience Inflatables]] - [[Powered by Wind]] - [[Parasite Inflatables]] - [[Soap Experiences]] - [[When Nature Inflates]] - [[Environmental Blendings]] - [[Hardened Bubbles]] - [[Inflatable Spaces]] - [[Inflatable Sound]] - [[Interactive Inflatables]] - [[Inflatable Wearables]] - [[The Non Categorized Inflatables]] - [[Lighter than Air]] or go back to: [[Cocky Eek]] |
- | [[Experience Inflatables]] - [[Powered by Wind]] - [[Parasite Inflatables]] - [[Soap Experiences]] - [[When Nature Inflates]] - [[Environmental Blendings]] - [[Hardened Bubbles]] - [[Inflatable Spaces]] - [[Inflatable Sound]] - [[Interactive Inflatables]] - [[Inflatable Wearables]] - [[The Non Categorized Inflatables]] - [[Lighter than Air]] | ||
- | **or go back** | ||
- | [[Cocky Eek]] | ||