Re: Military service and the astronaut Corps

From: Doug... (dvandorn_at_NOSPAM.mn.rr.com)
Date: 06/17/04 

Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 15:51:14 GMT

In article <caq74r$gr$1@newslocal.mitre.org>, silber@mitre.org says...
>
> "Stuf4" <tdadamemd-spamblock-@excite.com> wrote in message
> news:d3af8584.0406152145.2b4337de@posting.google.com...
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > NASA ordered the Atlas and the Titan boosters straight from the Air
> > Force, not the contractors. I don't know what Atlas modifications you
> > are referring to, but in the case of the Titan, minor modifications
> > (for pogo suppression, etc) could actually be used by the Air Force as
> > improvements to future versions of the ICBM.
> >
> Sure, were they? I'm not saying that there wasn't a very close
> co-development cycle on the Atlas and the Titan II, but that co-development
> cycle was broken for the Saturn and various Delta, Centaur etc. planetary
> probe launchers.

In the case of the Titan II, NASA ordered the basic missile from the Air
Force, true. But the MDS (Malfunction Detection System) that NASA
(*not* the Air Force) developed for the Titan in order to man-rate it
was never, to the best of my knowledge, either desired or implemented in
the Titan II by the Air Force.

Doug
dvandorn@NOSPAM.mn.rr.com