roberts@CMR.NCSL.NIST.GOV (John Roberts) (03/29/91)
>From: cabp10@vaxa.strath.ac.uk (Theora Jones, In Person!) >Subject: Re: I want to go to orbit... >In article <1991Mar25.174621.3905@cs.mcgill.ca> msdos@cs.mcgill.ca (Mark SOKOLOWSKI) writes: >> What are the steps in order to build a reliable space-shuttle like >>spaceship in order to send myself to orbit for the summer holidays? > Assuming you only want to go once, forget heat tiles. Go ablative. it worked >for apollo. (a good shield is layers of cork painted white, with a rubber based >paint) Sounds like a good idea. I think the Chinese use oak. (Cork, as you know, is made from the outer bark of the cork oak.) > as for life support systems, a good vindaloo before hand and a diving (DRY) >suit should do. The Air & Space Museum (Washington, D.C.) has a display of early attempts at "space suits". Some of them are very close in appearance to diving suits. I doubt that Mark could eat enough vindaloo ahead of time to last for the entire summer holidays, though for Canadian summers, it's hard to be sure. :-) (Vindaloo - an Indian curry dish made with meat, fish, or poultry in a sauce of garlic, wine (or vinegar), spices, etc. - the term is essentially not used in the US.) >Theora Jones Strathclyde University, SCOTLAND || " I can fly higher than an >CABP10%vaxa.strath.ac.uk (elsewhere, hopefully) || wind beneath my wings " >WE SUPPORTED DESERT STORM ! KUWAIT IS NOW FREE ! || "Lets be MAWS!" John Roberts roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov