Return-path: X-Andrew-Authenticated-as: 7997;andrew.cmu.edu;Ted Anderson Received: from beak.andrew.cmu.edu via trymail for +dist+/afs/andrew.cmu.edu/usr11/tm2b/space/space.dl@andrew.cmu.edu (->+dist+/afs/andrew.cmu.edu/usr11/tm2b/space/space.dl) (->ota+space.digests) ID ; Wed, 30 May 1990 02:50:29 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Reply-To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU From: space-request+@Andrew.CMU.EDU To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU Date: Wed, 30 May 1990 02:50:04 -0400 (EDT) Subject: SPACE Digest V11 #465 SPACE Digest Volume 11 : Issue 465 Today's Topics: Re: Shuttle models Re: HAWAII AND STAR WARS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 30 May 90 05:22:01 GMT From: thorin!ornat!leech@mcnc.org (Jonathan Leech) Subject: Re: Shuttle models In article <2767@syma.sussex.ac.uk> andy@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Andy Clews) writes: >Further to this, does anyone know if decent models of the Apollo >vehicles (LM, CSM, Saturn IB/V etc) are available? I would have thought >they might have been re-issued on the 20th anniversary but the model shops >in my area had nothing. Any information, address, prices etc would be >much appreciated. I asked the local hobby shop a few months back; they checked into it and found that the Monogram LM/CSM models (at least) had been discontinued. Supposedly they'll inform me if they become available again, in which case I'll post something. I'm considering writing to Grumman for blueprints as I don't want a physical model so much as a bunch of polygons. -- Jon Leech (leech@cs.unc.edu) __@/ "We are Buddhists. We believe in God. We also believe in Hewlett-Packard" - Kenichi Horie ------------------------------ Date: 30 May 90 05:44:57 GMT From: mailrus!umich!ox.com!kitenet!russ@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Russ Cage) Subject: Re: HAWAII AND STAR WARS I suppose it would be spoiling someone's fun to point out that the amount of aluminum released by solid rocket fuel is minuscule compared to the amount present in alumino-silicate minerals in the rocks, sands, gravels etc. of aquifers, from which well water is pumped FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION... I would also be a spoilsport if I pointed out how little chlorine they release compared to the amount in salt spray from seas or volcanic eruptions, or how little acid they create compared to nitric acid made by lightning strokes. Yes, injecting any dose of reality would make me a killjoy, wouldn't it? -- Oversimplification doesn't solve problems, it just (313) 662-4147 changes them into less tractable problems. Russ Cage, Robust Software Inc. russ@m-net.ann-arbor.mi.us ------------------------------ End of SPACE Digest V11 #465 *******************