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SPACE STATIONS

added new section North American Rockwell Orbital Lunar Station
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/spacestations.php#ols

ASTRODECK

added section Manual Calculations
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/astrodeck.php#id--Computers--Manual_Calculation
added section Slide Rules
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/astrodeck.php#id--Computers--Slide_Rules
added section Nomograms
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/astrodeck.php#id--Computers--Nomograms
added to Analog Computers images of the Ideal Harmonic Transformer
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/astrodeck.php#id--Computers--Analog_Computers
added to Redundency a quote from Arthur C. Clarke's Into The Comet
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/astrodeck.php#id--Computers--Redundency

CONTROL DECK

added new section Attitude Jets
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/controldeck.php#rcs
added new section Thrust Vectoring
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/controldeck.php#thrustvectoring
added new section Flywheels
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/controldeck.php#stabilizinggyroscope

PIRACY

added quote Recruitment Starts With Arrrr
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/pirate.php#piraterecruit

ADVANCED DESIGNS

added a quote Prophylock
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/advdesign.php#prophylock

FUTURE HISTORY

added to Eugenics a quote Homo Sapiens Sapiens
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/futurehistory.php#homosapienssapiens

PRELIMINARY NOTES

added an annotated quote from The McAndrew Chronicles
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/prelimnotes.php#mcandrewchronicles

REAL DESIGNS A-M

added Nick Stevens illustration of the Dornier Space Tug
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/realdesigns2.php#stevensdornier

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Comments

You make a very good point! I will add that and give you credit

Nyrath

An engineering note regarding Vectored Thrusting: it is vital that your gimbaling mechanism be designed in such a way that the passive position for the nozzle while under thrust is centered; that is, it takes a force opposed to the main thrust to vector the nozzle. Otherwise any failure of the gimbaling mechanism will tend to throw your rocket wildly off balance, with unhappy results.

Michael Hutson


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