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... -and-effect between solar output and changes in Earth's climate, a solar telescope- Solar Max 's active-cavity radiometer irradiance monitor-recorded a steady decrease from February 1980 to August ... ." Solar activity peaked about every 11 years. The current cycle peaked about the time Solar Max was launched early in 1980; the decrease might represent the general decline since then but ... as a tenth of 1% smaller every 100 years for the last four centuries.) Solar Max had lost pointing capability in December 1980, and only three of its seven instruments were ...

... engineer in operations worked with the engineers from Engineering and Development Directorate , those guys under Max Faget who, you said at the beginning they kind of split off. So how was ... . All the design stuff, all the thoughts and things come out of engineering, true engineering. Max Faget is a brilliant engineer. They called him the Father of Space Flight sometimes, I ... be quite a bit heavier than the phenolic resin shield. But you know, it was Max Faget and his people that came up with the ablation approach. That is, you could ...

... you worked with a great deal? '''Feltz:''' Well, I worked with Bob. I worked with Max Maxime A. Faget. I worked with the structures guy. I can't remember his name ... after we got all the loads, then we figured out how to fly through that max Q without overloading the vehicle, and that's what the integration job was to do ... objection was from Goddard, and then they were about to close out the meeting, and Max said, "Can I say something?" Then he spoke his peace. When he got through, I ...

... could not send a representative to that meeting. You personally had to go. It was Max Faget, myself, Deke Donald K. Slayton, one of the doctors, one of the scientists at ... :''' Yes. '''Wright:''' Can you share a little bit more about that? '''Kraft:''' Well yes, because Max Faget used to tell me. He said Moonshine is one-tenth the strength of Earthshine ... 't think we felt that way. I think that George Low, myself, Bob Gilruth and Max Faget, Deke Slayton, to say the top, and then lots of layers below it, all ...

... good lateral directional controls, but very stiff in pitch. Its performance both in absolute altitude, max speed, and climb rate were inferior to the MiG by substantial amount. '''Brinkley:''' There's ... expert, among the best in the world. I knew Chris Christopher C. Kraft Jr. and Max Maxime A. Faget. I remember the discussions earlier that we'd had at conferences on ... follow up to that just before we go on. Did you have much work with Max Faget and everyone over in Engineering and Development Directorate? '''Armstrong:''' Some of the guys in ...

... individual that wrote Bob's introduction and coordinating with all the other authors such as Max Maxime A. Faget and, I think—I forget who else we had. Deke Donald K ... and eventually ASTP and then downstream Shuttle. I don't want to—a guy like Max Faget was always thinking about six miles ahead of everybody else, but it was kind ... outside the sphere in some of the other organizations, I always felt good working with Max Faget, and maybe it was the influence of the organization, but the ops guys, I ...

... prior to this, STS 41-C, with Bob Crippen in command, had repaired the Solar Max Maximum satellite, with “Pinky” George D. Nelson and “Ox” James D. A. van Hoften doing EVAs, and Pinky actually going out to and latching onto the Solar Max satellite. And the way in which he did that involved a capture, an automatic capture feature that was mounted onto the MMU, Manned Maneuvering Unit, and as Solar Max rotated, Pinky was supposed to fly up to it and, as it was rotating, slip ...

... of this period include ''Metropolis '' (1927), ''A Clockwork Orange '' (1971), ''Soylent Green '' (1973), ''Mad Max '' (1979)'', Mad Max II: The Road Warrior '' (1982)'', '' and ''Brazil '' (1985). Recent space fiction movies of some ... , though lamentably short-running, television cyberpunk series (though not about space) were the British-inspired ''Max Headroom '' (1987-88) and ''Dark Angel '' (2000-2002). Films that exhibit cyberpunk perspectives (none about ...

... " resulting from coordination of data from the Solar Max spacecraft and from a network of sophisticated ground observatories participating in the International Solar Max imum Year. On the basis of worldwide predictions, instruments on the Solar Max and at observatories in 18 nations had focused on ...

... job to practice for the salvaging of an orbiting satellite, Solar Max , in April 1984. The 5,000-pound Solar Max cost $70 million at its launch in February 1980 to study ... expense was for training the spacesuited crew to use tools and to handle the Solar Max as it orbited at 17,500-miles-per-hour alongside the Shuttle. (W Post, Oct ...

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