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Originally posted by zurvan
Why loose life when it is not necessary? Those people you talk about with fake wings had no other option, they wanted to fly and that was the only way they knew! i don't consider their action/death unnecessary.
Originally posted by Daedalus3
This brings me to another wonderful aspect of jet a/c..
The awesome "S-turn".. This manuever has saved many a lives and solved many aeronautical dilemmas..
Wonder when it actually came up..or how it came about..
Originally posted by Daedalus3
If space tarvel is to ever become routine/mundane and a thing for everybody,then IMO re-entry MUST be automated.
Originally posted by SkyBlueTwo
Originally posted by Daedalus3
If space tarvel is to ever become routine/mundane and a thing for everybody,then IMO re-entry MUST be automated.
Not only do soyuz, apollo and CEV reentries NOT require human control; they don't even have to be automated! After deorbiting, capsules INHERENTLY assume stable descent profiles. This is not the case for CEV reentry to earth from lunar orbit, in which especially high velocity necessatate a controlled skip or two. The shuttle certainly requires a controlled reentry, but automation of it wil not make space travel routine. Reducing the infrastructure and the 25,000 strong standing army required for a space shuttle launch would.
Originally posted by Daedalus3
Originally posted by SkyBlueTwo
Originally posted by Daedalus3
If space tarvel is to ever become routine/mundane and a thing for everybody,then IMO re-entry MUST be automated.
Not only do soyuz, apollo and CEV reentries NOT require human control; they don't even have to be automated! After deorbiting, capsules INHERENTLY assume stable descent profiles. This is not the case for CEV reentry to earth from lunar orbit, in which especially high velocity necessatate a controlled skip or two. The shuttle certainly requires a controlled reentry, but automation of it wil not make space travel routine. Reducing the infrastructure and the 25,000 strong standing army required for a space shuttle launch would.
Actually I wasn't talking about the shuttle in specific.
Any winged/future design which requires re-entry manuevering needs to be automated.