Re: Dr. Ernst Stuhlinger has died
- From: jsavard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (John Savard)
- Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 03:35:55 GMT
On Sun, 25 May 2008 16:02:14 -0500, Pat Flannery <flanner@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote, in part:
If the name doesn't ring a bell, one of his ion-powered spaceship
designs almost certainly will:
http://davidszondy.com/future/space/ionships.htm
Yes, the ones that were in the Disney television production "Mars and
Beyond".
I remembered the picture from a book about space travel - and later
found out the details of the design. The idea was for a centrifugal
gravity wheel space station to be in the middle of a huge annular heat
sink.
The thrust of the ion engine was presumably _very_ gentle, given the
design.
John Savard
http://www.quadibloc.com/index.html
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