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15 years ago @ The Space Review: essa... - The Space Review: Sub-... · 0 replies · +1 points

That is a great story, Craig, and thank you for sharing it with us. I have a number of 1960s/70s AW&ST which I treasure for some of the articles.

15 years ago @ The Space Review: essa... - The Space Review: The ... · 0 replies · +1 points

Kodak had plenty of photo paper competition in 1965 when I worked in a Hollywood camera store. DuPont and Agfa were the two other major brands we carried but of course Kodak had more variety of papers. Agfa did have a unique grade 6 paper and the Agfa paper blacks were a good selling point over Kodak. Agfa color slides had very vivid greens. Ektachrome was a good seller due to the E-6 process which allowed pushing. I miss all the stocking of those items to this day.

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15 years ago @ The Space Review: essa... - The Space Review: Laun... · 0 replies · +1 points

Wayne: I love your failure articles. I have followed US missile launchings since 1958 and failures always fascinated me as to cause and the effect on flight (or non-flight). Hope you have more in the pipeline for us.

15 years ago @ The Space Review: essa... - The Space Review: Laun... · 1 reply · +1 points

Supposedly the S-1C stage required 14 pounds reduction to gain 1 pound into orbit. I am not sure the S-II stage was as robust as the first stage as it went through a tough period of weight reduction being the last stage to be developed.

15 years ago @ The Space Review: essa... - The Space Review: Laun... · 0 replies · +2 points

Adding to straight up VAFB incidents was Titan II N-7 in February 1963. Any others? The only ones at the Cape I know of were the first Polaris 1958 and Mercury-Atlas 3 in 1961.

15 years ago @ The Space Review: essa... - The Space Review: Laun... · 0 replies · +1 points

it seems like you are saying someone was correctly pushing on the pitch axis but was told to push on the yaw axis to verify. I thought there were quadrant markings on these vehicles. Just incredible that such a mistake could be made and was made.

A similar error occurred on the one and only Mercury-Scout in 1961 - wrong connections to pitch and yaw.

15 years ago @ The Space Review: essa... - The Space Review: Laun... · 0 replies · +1 points

The incorrectly wired console incident was the second Thor # 102. The incorrect software failure occurred on Mariner 1 but after the normal radio guidance failed due to noise in the Atlas receiving antenna.

15 years ago @ The Space Review: essa... - The Space Review: Sub-... · 2 replies · +1 points

Long shadows revealed broad structure details and heights............

15 years ago @ The Space Review: essa... - The Space Review: The ... · 1 reply · +1 points

Super informative article on the transition to KH-9. Many inside moves and people creating the future. Looking forward to future articles.

15 years ago @ The Space Review: essa... - The Space Review: The ... · 0 replies · +1 points

C had an upper stage Transtage............and probably other West Coast differences. And all 22 flights of the 3D were successful.

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