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- From: 01fortec@ac.dal.ca
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.misc
- Subject: aeroflights in space
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.112646.10074@ac.dal.ca>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 11:26:46 -0400
- Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- This is as close to an appropriate newsgroup as I can get.
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- Are there any aerospace engineers out there reading this? Could you tell
- me the following: would it be possible to design a spacecraft with computer
- controlled thrusters arranged in such a pattern around the ship so as to
- simulate atmospheric flight in space? I can't think of any really good reason
- to do this except that it might simplify navigation in space a little.
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- The question arose after a marathon evening of watching StarWars (all three).
- If it can't be done, why not? If it can be done, how complicated would it be?
- (it occurs to me that fuel tankage, if nothing else, might complicate matters)
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- Joe
- 01fortec@ac.dal.ca
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