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(...) No I'm not familiar with that motion picture. That's keen that they featured an Asteroid Cave-Mouth Monster in a movie. I just hope that it wasn't a comedy because the danger posed by these creatures to space ships is very real and no laughing (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.space) !
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(...) What about the helmets? Would new-style helmets be acceptable? --DaveL (Bring on the classic astronauts in GREEN!!) (24 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
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Wrong! Ion rockets are in use now, and have been for 30 years. They're just not big enough to for sub-orbital work. See (URL) Drew ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kyle D. Jackson" <flightdeck@sympatic...mblock.ca> To: <lugnet.space@lugnet.com>; (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Are you sure about this? I believe there are ion drives in use on some research sats already. They are extremely low thrust mercury based but have, again, been shown to work for stationkeeping, unless my memory is completely fried. I want to (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Ion drives will not be in use in 2003. The only form of space engines that are currently in production are rockets. There are liquid-fuelled rockets, which can be turned on and off ("throttled"), and there are solid-fuel rockets which cannot (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
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