Quote from: Blackstar on 11/03/2015 12:42 amNew article is up:http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2858/1I don't know what you wrote in this article, but for some reason, I can't get it to open. I hope you didn't put something still classified! LOL.
New article is up:http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2858/1
Quote from: Ronpur50 on 11/03/2015 04:33 amQuote from: Blackstar on 11/03/2015 12:42 amNew article is up:http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2858/1I don't know what you wrote in this article, but for some reason, I can't get it to open. I hope you didn't put something still classified! LOL.I'm having the same trouble ...EDIT: just tried going to the main page via search engine -- still won't open. Wonder if the site's down? Anybody else tried the article link?
Quote from: the_other_Doug on 11/03/2015 12:42 amLet's be honest, guys -- once the program was canceled, the workshop hardware that was under construction was almost definitely scrapped. Optics may have been recycled into other surveillance satellites, and installed electronic components and wiring may have been salvaged, but the pressure vessels, structural members, etc., probably went the same way as the LMs for Apollos 19 and 20 that had been started and not completed, i.e., into the scrap bins.We do know the 72" primary mirrors where donated to NSF(?) and used for the MMT on Mount Hopkins in Arizona. They where removed in 1998 when a 6.5 meter spin cast mirror was made available by Roger Angel's team at UofA.
Let's be honest, guys -- once the program was canceled, the workshop hardware that was under construction was almost definitely scrapped. Optics may have been recycled into other surveillance satellites, and installed electronic components and wiring may have been salvaged, but the pressure vessels, structural members, etc., probably went the same way as the LMs for Apollos 19 and 20 that had been started and not completed, i.e., into the scrap bins.
Working for me... wonder if it was a temporary glitch.
I also saw in the photos that a large machine that produced a corregated material for primary structures was being used - I think such material was used on later Titan flights for interstages, so perhaps the machinery lived on.
So only four Gemini-B ? The last NASA Gemini mission was late 1966, so the four ships must have followed them closely in order not to interrupt McDonnell Gemini production line. Perhaps those four Gemini-B were build in 1967, then placed into storage, waiting for the other half of MOL that was never build (first flight was planned for 1971, so that would be four years spent in storage ? is that reasonnable ?)
Quote from: kevin-rf on 11/03/2015 01:00 amQuote from: the_other_Doug on 11/03/2015 12:42 amLet's be honest, guys -- once the program was canceled, the workshop hardware that was under construction was almost definitely scrapped. Optics may have been recycled into other surveillance satellites, and installed electronic components and wiring may have been salvaged, but the pressure vessels, structural members, etc., probably went the same way as the LMs for Apollos 19 and 20 that had been started and not completed, i.e., into the scrap bins.We do know the 72" primary mirrors where donated to NSF(?) and used for the MMT on Mount Hopkins in Arizona. They where removed in 1998 when a 6.5 meter spin cast mirror was made available by Roger Angel's team at UofA.No, they were donated to the Smithsonian, which transferred them to the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO). SAO had already been looking at multi-mirror telescopes, and so when the MOL optics became available in 1970, they started discussions with the University of Arizona about building what became the original MMT.https://www.mmto.org/node/288
I am wondering about something. I just watched Astrospies again, I wonder how come we didn't training films on the NRO site along with the 3 minute film that is there. Plus I would love to see film or video of the November 1966 launch. If the NRO has it, I hope they put it online someday. The films would have to be declassified or it wouldn't be in Astrospies.
Subsequently, at Hubbard’s suggestion, NASA awarded a study contract to Eastman Kodak (20 January 1970) to undertake a rigorous analysis of what astronomical use could be made of MOL hardware. The equipment, meanwhile, was stored at the Eastman facility pending NASA’s review of the study and its decision about a future approach.11
Where there any experiments done on one of the Gemini flights concerning MOL?
Quote from: Hoonte on 11/09/2015 10:11 amWhere there any experiments done on one of the Gemini flights concerning MOL?At least some of the experiments that were originally planned for MOL, such as the maneuvering unit, were transferred over to Gemini. I don't know when or why all that happened, but it may be in the documents that were released.