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 ...SPACEFLIGHT
1 Maker of Titan launchers
2 Name of most recently launched Nasa Space
Shuttle
3 Name of first Soviet Space Shuttle
4 Heaviest Soviet rocket
5 West German reusable launcher
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 ...FLIGHT International, 26 August 1971 329
TED WILDING-WHITE
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SPACE
SHUTTLE
MAIN
4
: ENGINE
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 ...SPACEFLIGHT
France names
Shuttle
candidates
PARIS
France's national space re
search centre (CNES=Centre
national d'etudes spatiales)
has selected seven new
payload specialist candidates,
inc...
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 ...Europe's proposed new Ariane launcher is
number what; and what is the name of the
projected Shuttle which it would launch?
2 Launcher of the most recently orbited
Intelsat?
3 Name the first four Nasa Space Shuttle
orbiters
4 Place in history of Chretien and Merbold?
5 What do the following stand for: SRB,
Inmarsat, Insat, TDRS?
FLIGHT International, 24 December 1983 168...
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 ...the nothing!" The future did
offer a number of more
tangible rewards, such as
the first supersonic flight
the ,„....,
of Hap
Arnold's
visit to
Great
Britain in
1941.
Shocked
that the
Unit...
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 ...698 FLIGHT International, 4 September 1976
CANADA'S AEROSPACE INDUSTRY
offers you
Product Innovation
Expansive Prime and
Sub-Contracting Facilities
and Competitive
Support Services
• New conce...
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 ...266 FLIGHT International, 25 July 1981
Eight million flying hours and
still climbing
IMI Titanium alloys are essential
materials for the compressor blades
and discs in the Rolls-Royce RB 211
tur...
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 ...SPACEFLIGHT
Hermes spaceplane studied
Aerospatiale and Dassault-Breguet are competing for the role of prime
contractor on the Hermes spaceplane, a French project which space
agency CNES hopes Euro...
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 ...Tomorrow's
space
propulsion
Large-scale interplanetary flight and travel beyond
the solar system demand propulsion systems more
efficient than today's chemical rockets. DAVID
BAKER looks at some...
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 ...Shuttle training: the final countdown
DAVID VELUPILLAI reports from HOUSTON
I N March next year, or perhaps a few
weeks later, Nasa's Space Shuttle
will make its first flight. If all goes
well, C...
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 ...SPACEFLIGHT
TIM FURNISS/WASHINGTON DC
THE ALPHA INTERNATIONAL Space Station "...isn't a paper programme any more", says Wilbur Trafton, director of NASA's Space Station programme. "We're
talking la...
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generating an exhaust "gas." In theory MHD motors could
achieve specific impulses of 20,000sec. The plasma gun is
a form of MHD motor in which plasma and an electro
magnetic field are produce...
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Space
1. Now the namesake of a NASA centre, he fired
the world's first liquid propellant rocket in 1926.
Who was he?
2. What became the first man-made object to
fall from ...
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 ...FLIGHT International, 20 December 1973
SECTION 3
PERFORMANCE
1 What re-energise the boundary
layer by making it more turbulent?
2 Subsonic flow enters a divergent
duct:
(a) What happens to its ...
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 ...NR WINS SHUTTLE ENGINE CONTRACT
North American Rockwell is to develop the main engines
for Nasa's space shuttle. Final negotiations are now taking
place with NR's Rocketdyne division for a cost-plu...
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 ...)GHT International, 22 August 1968 309
Spaceflight
A "Flight" impression of the NASA space shuttle. The 1%-stage vehicle on the launch pad would"
weigh 600,0001b fully fuelled, and is injected into orbit by a thrust of 750,0001b (both values,
incidentally, exactly 10 per cent of ...
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Grumman's shuttle team
G RUMMAN ANNOUNCE on March 2 that it will head an indus trial team to compete for the NASA space shuttle. The consortium, which includes General Electric, Northrop
and Eastern Airlines, will bid for a Phase B study contract.
Phase A was concerned with overall feasibility studies, whi...
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 ...SPACEFLIGHT
Space shuffle
The NASA Space
Shuttle fleet faces
an uncertain 1999
TIM FURNISS/LONDON
JOHN GLENN HAS made it in the nick of time. The STS95/Discwery mission due to launch the 77-year...
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 ...SPACEFU6HT
Bold endeavour
Assembly of the International Space Station
is scheduled to begin on 7 December
TIM FURNISS/LONDON
RUSSIA HAS DONE its bit, now its NASAs turn. The Russian Zarya control...
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 ...NEWS ANALYSIS
ELEPHANT, WHITE KNIGHT
Ten years from now, barring further accidents, NASA's
Space Shuttle should gain recog
nition as representing a step for
ward in spaceflight. Today,
opinion i...
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