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... that time they were talking seriously about getting astronauts, and so that was my childhood dream finally coming into reality. '''Wright:''' Tell us how you ended up at Goddard Space Flight ... very large, influential group of engineers who were anxious to design and test and verify machines, launch vehicles or Command Modules or what have you. Once Apollo had shown that their ... -based simulators, you even get some of the visceral sensations, because they can move the machine around and give you the sense of onset of zero-Gs; you can’t hold ...

... be 0.997 reliability. In this process, you invariably find out things that you never dreamed of before hand and so we might call this the Serendipity Generation (serendipity means finding ... spots. Here was another QA and QC problem. It was cancelled in 1959. Today, however, machine tools are dramatically better than back then and vapor-deposition is a well known technology ... program. With that caveat, a nuclear rocket has the following components: 1. Pressure vessel - a machined specialty metal “can” a bit smaller than a 55-gallon drum and about an inch ...

... . But number two, I was, of course, interested in NASA. Again, it was like a dream that I wanted to fulfill. So it all worked out. '''Butler:''' Certainly seems to have ... we would modify the codes. Some of us went over to the IBM International Business Machines Building and worked with them to talk about how the changes would be made, what ... to get it fixed? '''Pavelka:''' He took it to a machine shop, they had to take the head off and machine it out and what they called a heli-coil in there ...

... Regis Jr 8 - 85-11-SP Microzoo Pictorial Philip Harrington 14 - 85-11-SP Dreams and the Anteater LIFE Kathleen McAuliffe 18 - 85-11-SP John Lilly Interview Judith ... No 12''' - 86-09 Untitled Cover Art Michel Tcherevkoff 1 - 86-09 HUMANS AND MACHINES FIRST WORD Marvin Minsky 6 - 86-09 OMNIBUS Contributors 10 - 86-09 COMMUNICATIONS Correspondence ...

... done, plus a lot of extra ones that we dreamed up. Ed was—he and Bill were the two guys who dreamed up more experiments than you could shake a stick at ... he looked it over, and he said, "You know, this is a wonderful machine. I've dreamed of a machine like this for years." But he said, "If I had the choice of ...

... the idea” of space flight itself, probably dates to Johannes Kepler's novel ''Somnium'' (''The Dream''), written in 1608 but not published until 1634. It is an imaginative description of how ... Inventors” presented the “First World Exhibition of Interplanetary Machines and Mechanisms” at the Association of Inventors Building at 68 Tverskaya Street, Moscow. The “machines and mechanisms” were models; also exhibited were photos ... . Of course, it will be a long time before we have such well-constructed rocket machines...” ref 14 . It is important to note that, as was true in the earliest years ...

... hell that (solid state physics) was all about, but I woke up in a bad dream one night and said, “I’m going to do that.” I was interested in crystals ... you turn on this computer—.” They had little Gemini computer that was only a 4k machine, 4,000 words of memory, and you could do these computations. The instructor is very ... there was computer one, two, three, if you can imagine. Then there was a fourth machine for each of these CMS that was called ISAGC. Interpretively Simulated Apollo Guidance Computer, and ...

... . Oberg 44 - 79-10 The Hindenburg Solution Continuum Kenneth Jon Rose 51 - 79-10 INTELLIGENT MACHINES Article Thomas Hoover 60 - 79-10 THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST Fiction Robert A. Heinlein ... Continuum Dave Sobel 35 - 79-11 ANTIMATTER REVEALED Article Robert L. Forward 44 - 79-11 DREAM HOUSE Article Ronald Dans 50 - 79-11 THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST Fiction Robert A ...

... 30 - 87-10 Astronaut's Diary SPACE Jeffrey A Hoffman 32 - 87-10 High-Tech Dreams ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Steve Ditlea 34 - 87-10 Science Discovers Women, etc Continuum Richard and ... - 88-05-SP How to Build a Creative Scientist, The Blob, Watery Band Aid, Thinking Machines, Chinese Nose Jobs Continuum William Stuckey, George Nobbe, Bill Lawren, Edward Rosenfeld 9 - 88-05 ...

... - 90-12 Snapshots From the Butterfly Plague Fiction Michael Bishop 50 - 90-12 Field of Dreams? Pictorial Dava Sobel 60 - 90-12 Freedom Trail Article Rob Fruchtman 68 - 90-12 ... - 91-01 The Great Omni Treasure Hunt 24 - 91-01 Consumers and their MIND-boggling machines Continuum Christine Welldon 25 - 91-01 Challenge and Response John Diebold of The Diebold ...

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