I have started building a rocket to go into space December 2006. \n\nSo far I have a couple of metal pipes and an old tractor seat. I'm already welding window panels into the pipes and attaching the seat.\n\nJust need a bit more funding for the engines. Any help appreciated.
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Make sure that you leave instructions as to where people should send the Darwin Award to.  Either is is a joke or you are on your way to getting one.
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use a pop bottle quarter fill wth water, and seal with a rubber cork(one with a hole in the middle this is where you put your compressor attachment)  add fins to your bottle just like a real rocket\n\nuse a half pipe as a ramp and angle it a 45 degrees ataach the compressor to the bottle and turn on.  when the air pressure gets high enough the cork will shoot out and the rocket will fly.  try different amounts of water and change the angle
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i work for the govt and i am a financial manager for NASA research. we get most of our funds from congressional adds and private researchers. the rest of it is from different institutions needing to know the information for a current or future program.\n\nthanks,\n\nryan\n\nair force research labs.
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Going back to a capsule type system definately seems like a strange step.  \n\nBut as far as getting an effective system flying in a low budget enivronment, it is probably a good choice.\n\nI think seperating the cargo and crew flights is a good idea.\n\nI would like to see more alternative methods of getting man & material into space such as the high altitude drop then rocket burn of the Spaceship1, or the space elevator.
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what the heck is a mentos rocket???  Do you put those little breath mint thingies inside a rocket and launch it?  That's weird.  Doesn't sound all that fun to me.\n\nWell, since I'm not sure what that is, I don't have any really good ideas.  \n\nBut here's some links for science fun\n\nhttp://www.funsci.com/texts/index_en.htm\n\nhttp://www.exploratorium.edu/science_explorer/
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we dug a round hole & put a big [tractor] wheel down into the hole.  Then had a hard metal lid made for it.  Take the lid off & fire pit!!  Put the lid on & we can mow over it, walk on it, etc.\nworks great & is only a fews yard from our basement walk-out
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American Rocket Society Journal, Vol. 30 Sept. 1960  is what you are looking for. Sorry but I cant seem to find the articles to read.\n\nYou might want to read this article, it has plenty of names and dates both before and after 1960 and is all about the creation of the Society.\nhttp://www.iaanet.org/history/conception.html
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Structures in space are built the old-fashioned way with cranes, hand tools, portable electric tools, etc.  What you're talking about is so expensive and so far in the future it's only in people's dreams right now, like landing on the moon was a hundred years ago.
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Big rocket on moon: Lots of reaction mass available, low escape velocity, no atmosphere to block the exhaust, and no greenies to complain about the noise and pollution. The moon is gravitationally bound to the earth, so if the moon is moved slowly and carefully enough, the earth will follow. Of course, we'll want to clean up the asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars first. Great plan for solar main sequence survival.\n\nIn response to "addtional detail". For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. That means the gravitational force on the moon due to earth's gravity is exactly the same as the force on the earth due to the moon, but in the opposite direction. Now, since the earth is more massive, that means its acceleration is proportionatly smaller. Since the moon's orbit is circular (at present), that means the acceleration is centripetal and the earth's center orbits in circle of small radius. \n\nThe extreme limit of how hard you can pull on the earth with a rocket on the moon would be if you brought the moon to a stop relative to the earth. The moon will then start falling toward the earth, and the earth toward the moon (though more slowly). However, if you oppose the gravitational force on the moon with rocket thrust of equal an opposite magnitude, plus a bit more to match the acceleration of the earth in both sign and direction, the earth-moon distance with stay the same, and the pair will accelerate together. Note that the rocket exhaust is now pointed towards the earth; this can be avoided by vectoring it off to the side slightly. This added acceleration can be used to accelerate earth in the direction of its motion around the sun. This would cause the earth's orbit to slowly spiral outward. As I said, this is the extreme limit of how hard you can pull (unless you bring the moon closer). In practicle, one need only perturb the moon's orbit to get an effect; it'll just take longer.\n\nYes, one would need a phenomenal energy source to accelerate lunar material for rocket exhaust. Thermonuclear fusion would be the best bet for this. That only requires extacting the naturally occuring deuterium from water. I haven't done the math, but all the earth's ocean's might suffice; deuterium is less than 1% of the hydrogen in water, so we'd hardly miss it. There's lots of water in the outer solar system too, if needed.
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Yeah! Have you been reading the magazine Popular Science? I guess so. The flying cars have to be aero dynamic and there is a 50% chance that they would make it. Also NASA might build a supersonic plane from here to Tokyo in 2 hours. Isn't that amazing! I wonder if they could build that too.
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Well wll dear no need to worry..well i would suggest try out some lander http://www.carsloan.info they might be helpful.
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According to wikipedia:\n\n"The cost of the entire program is estimated at $135 billion (2006 dollars) ($25.4 billion in 1969 dollars). The Apollo spacecraft cost $28 billion (2006 dollars) to develop: $17 billion for the command and service modules, and $11 billion for the Lunar Module. The Saturn I, IB and V launch vehicle development cost about $46 billion."\n\nAnd, I might add, worth every penny ... in the technology we got out of it alone, much less the sheer human joy of doing it.
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Well, you can find many web sites on spacecraft design, try that.  But, I can respond to one point.  A good spaceship will be a structure designed to be assembled in high orbit, and will not enter any atmosphere.  All of the structures necessary for high gravity atmospheric travel are useless dead mass when it come to space travel.  We are not quite to this point, but getting closer.  Check out the current Mission to Mars plans at the NASA website.  Three different launch vehicles.  That is the first step, how to get things into space efficiently.  If we get better at that, we will see more ambitious construction projects, like a permanent moon base, or a high orbit space station.
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We're hiring slowly, but growing. We build many telecommunication spacecraft. Most large structures are Composite while smaller structures and components are aluminum.\n The industry will soon develop a replacement for the Shuttle which only has a few years left of service
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I think you need to contact NASA!!
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well let me tell you the first natural resorce we will run out of...it is not oil or natual gas it will be water...the most imporant...at the currant rate of polulation increase we will have to use every last drop of fresh water to surive in about 120 years...of course we can distill sea water but that will only delay the stituation...we are not going to find any more water on this planet so space is the nest best altenative...that is quiet honestly why we should keep space exploration alive...the only thing i would like to see is corpations and indivuals do it as well...\n\ntruthfully there will always be poor...sad to say...but hey look at it this way...did you get a internet connection...did you go out to eat this week...do you have cable tv...and i would be willing to bet that you have a computer as well...you could spent the money on some charity instead...it is not alway the goverment that should fix our problems...sometime we have to do it
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well for a candle to burn and have a visible flame we need 2 things convection currents and gravity to support those convection currents. both missing in the space shuttle :))