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 ; Thu, 11 Oct 1990 02:20:51 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Precedence: junk Reply-To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU From: space-request+@Andrew.CMU.EDU To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU Date: Thu, 11 Oct 1990 02:19:28 -0400 (EDT) Subject: SPACE Digest V12 #441 SPACE Digest Volume 12 : Issue 441 Today's Topics: Re: Are there plans for new launchers? First Launch Towards Mars - Thirtieth Anniversary Pharmaceutical Manufacturing in Microgravity Administrivia: Submissions to the SPACE Digest/sci.space should be mailed to space+@andrew.cmu.edu. Other mail, esp. [un]subscription notices, should be sent to space-request+@andrew.cmu.edu, or, if urgent, to tm2b+@andrew.cmu.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 3 Oct 90 12:53:43 GMT From: world!ksr!clj%ksr.com@decwrl.dec.com (Chris Jones) Subject: Re: Are there plans for new launchers? In article <1990Oct2.163040.23160@zoo.toronto.edu>, henry@zoo (Henry Spencer) writes: >In article <3557@rwthinf.UUCP> dieter@rwthinf.UUCP (Dieter Kreuer) writes: > >>In former times, NASA developed one type of rocket after the other... > >You are confusing NASA with the military. NASA developed the Saturns and >the Shuttle, period. The other US boosters are all converted missiles, >although NASA was sometimes involved with those programs in modest ways. > NASA also developed the Scout and the Centaur (although the latter's concept had been under study by the DoD and has always been launched on top of a converted missile). Also, the Vanguard booster was not a converted missile (which meant it had no input from von Braun's team, a factor which contributed to its less than sterling launch record). -- Chris Jones clj@ksr.com {world,uunet,harvard}!ksr!clj ------------------------------ Date: 10 Oct 90 14:01:57 GMT From: bacchus.pa.dec.com!shlump.nac.dec.com!advax.enet.dec.com!klaes@decwrl.dec.com (Larry Klaes) Subject: First Launch Towards Mars - Thirtieth Anniversary Though this probe failed to achieve even an Earth parking orbit, today, October 10, marks the thirtieth anniversary of humanity's first attempt to reach another planet, namely Mars. On October 10, 1960, the Soviet Union launched the first of two unmanned space probes designed to flyby and examine the planet Mars. Unfortunately, the MOLNIYA rocket booster which was delivering it towards interplanetary space suffered a malfunction in its upper stages, causing the probe to plunge back to its destruction on the ground. Another attempt with a similar craft four days later fol- lowed a similar fate high above the Tyuratam Space Center in the Soviet Republic of Kazakhstan. In a policy which the Soviets have only recently begun to ease up on, nothing was mentioned of these space mission failures to the rest of the world. Even today, the human race's first attempts to explore Mars are known in the West simply as MARS 1960A and 1960B. Fortunately our space vessels have become much more sophisticated and successful since 1960, greatly improving our knowledge of Mars and almost every other world in the solar system. In another thirty years, we will hopefully be celebrating the first human expedition to the surface of the Red Planet. Larry Klaes klaes@advax.enet.dec.com or ...!decwrl!advax.enet.dec.com!klaes or klaes%advax.dec@decwrl.enet.dec.com or klaes%advax.enet.dec.com@uunet.uu.net "All the Universe, or nothing!" - H. G. Wells ------------------------------ Date: 10 Oct 90 17:11:34 GMT From: dftsrv!nssdcb.gsfc.nasa.gov!jordan@ames.arc.nasa.gov (JOSEPH JORDAN) Subject: Pharmaceutical Manufacturing in Microgravity Does anyone know where and how I can obtain information about the latest proposals and ideas for manufacturing pharmaceuticals in microgravity? I would like to know what drugs are being considered, what diseases these drugs are used against, and why production in microgravity would be preferred to "normal" gravity. I'm doing research for a science fiction story. Please reply by E-MAIL to JORDAN@NSSDCB.GSFC.NASA.GOV Joe Jordan ------------------------------ End of SPACE Digest V12 #441 *******************