Date: Sun, 31 Jan 93 05:50:42 From: Space Digest maintainer Reply-To: Space-request@isu.isunet.edu Subject: Space Digest V16 #104 To: Space Digest Readers Precedence: bulk Space Digest Sun, 31 Jan 93 Volume 16 : Issue 104 Today's Topics: Saving an overweight SSTO.... Welcome to the Space Digest!! Please send your messages to "space@isu.isunet.edu", and (un)subscription requests of the form "Subscribe Space " to one of these addresses: listserv@uga (BITNET), rice::boyle (SPAN/NSInet), utadnx::utspan::rice::boyle (THENET), or space-REQUEST@isu.isunet.edu (Internet). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1993 07:05:13 GMT From: "Edward V. Wright" Subject: Saving an overweight SSTO.... Newsgroups: sci.space In <1993Jan28.232425.1148@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes: >That would only apply to U.S. payloads, I would think, and perhaps not >even then. After all, people contract to launch on Ariane out of >French Guinea (sp?). To get a launch on Ariane, you have to contract years in advance. That gives you plenty of time to get the paperwork through the Federal bureaucracy. To get a launch on SSTO, you'll pick up the phone and say, "I'd like a charter flight next Wednesday." >For S.F. to Tokyo you wouldn't have a problem. But we seem to be >talking about two different sets of circumstances. My post was in >response to the question of what you do if the thing is too heavy to >make orbit. Well, that's what you do. Hm. You'd probably be better off building Robert Heinlein's rocket sled up the side of a mountain. You'd still be restricting the number of launch sites, but at least you'd be operating out of the United States instead of South America. ------------------------------ From: nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu Newsgroups: sci.space Subject: Active Space Research/Home Sewage Recycling Message-Id: <1993Jan30.202454.1@acad3.alaska.edu> Date: 31 Jan 93 04:24:54 GMT Article-I.D.: acad3.1993Jan30.202454.1 Sender: USENET News System Organization: University of Alaska Fairbanks Lines: 13 Nntp-Posting-Host: acad3.alaska.edu Source-Info: Sender is really news@CRABAPPLE.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU Source-Info: Sender is really isu@VACATION.VENARI.CS.CMU.EDU What is everyone here doing to bring about Space Research and such.. I know some of you are workers at space research places. But what about the rest of us, are you members of some space lobbying group or doing actual space related work. One benefit of space research is a possible self recycling of home sewage.. Why must the home send all its sewage farther than its own sewage recycling tank.. Where most or all the water is pressed out, and the solid waste is then taken away.. The water being used again.. Or am I to wierd.. == Michael Adams, nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu Im not high, just jacked ------------------------------ End of Space Digest Volume 16 : Issue 104 ------------------------------