Re: Global wireless hotspot

On Jan 27, 8:29 am, Ian Parker <ianpark...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 25 Jan, 14:32, simberg.interglo...@xxxxxxxxx (Rand Simberg) wrote:





On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 03:00:35 -0800 (PST), in a place far, far away,
Ian Parker <ianpark...@xxxxxxxxx> made the phosphor on my monitor glow
in such a way as to indicate that:

You have no substance behind yours.  Johnson ended the Saturn program,
not Nixon.  Your ignorant armchair psychoanalysis of his Nixon's
motives is nonsense.- Hide quoted text -

You equally igorant bin al kalb. The last flight of the Saturn was
Skylab in 1973 that was well after Johnston's time.

The program had been canceled, and production had ended years before,
under the Johnson administration.  That is historical fact.

Idiot.

The fact remains bin al kalb that the last flight was Skylab (1973).

Irrelevant to the point.

I just don't know what to make of you. "Bin al kalb" seems a good
description.

Only to loons.

You have done a volte face on hypersonic launchers.

Only a loon would think that.

Wikipeadia report Skylab - contains misprints rectify. 1973 was
certainly a misprint.

  - Big Brother- Hide quoted text -

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What is a misprinte on Wikipedia? There were six missions, it was
launched in 1973, it was last visited in 1974, and it fell to Earth in
1979.

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/diagrams/skylab.html
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/skylab.htm

This from NASA's own website;

Skylab was a U.S. space station adapted from the third stage of a
Saturn V rocket and launched into orbit in May 1973. Three successive
crews of three astronauts each occupied Skylab. The longest mission,
which ended in February 1974, lasted almost three months.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylab

This from Wikipedia

Skylab was the first space station the United States launched into
orbit, and the second space station ever visited by a human crew. The
75 metric ton station was in Earth orbit from 1973 to 1979, and it was
visited by crews three times in 1973 and 1974. It included a
laboratory for studying the effects of microgravity and a solar
observatory.

http://www.astronautix.com/project/skylab.htm

This from Mark Wade

1973 May 14 - Skylab 1. Spacecraft: Skylab. Mass: 74,783 kg (164,868
lb). Launch Site: Cape Canaveral. Launch Vehicle: Saturn V.

First and only US space station to date. Project began life as Apollo
Orbital Workshop - outfitting of an S-IVB stage with docking adapter
with equipment launched by several subsequent S-1B launches.
Curtailment of the Apollo moon landings meant that surplus Saturn V's
were available, so the pre-equipped, five times heavier, and much more
capable Skylab resulted.

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