Questions tagged [historical-data]
Questions about finding old accounts, informations and observations if they are still available.
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How did Von Braun calculate in 1953 that a rocket would have to be 3× taller than the Empire State Building to reach the moon?
How did Von Braun calculate in 1953 that a rocket would have to be 3× taller than the Empire State Building to reach the moon? He wrote in Conquest of the Moon (1953), p. 14: It is commonly believed ...
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Are there ever exceptions to no earlier than (NET) dates?
Have there ever been recorded instance(s) where launch(es) occurred before previously announced NET date(s)? Are there are any jurisdictions where this could feasibly happen in the coming years?
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Is there any dataset that are monitoring the grounding electronic charges provided by the satellites?
I would like to know if there are some datasets that are monitoring the grounding electronic charges provided by the satellites
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Resources where one can find RD-171MV engine technical specifications? (e.g.TWR, Expansion Ratio, Isp, Thrust, Chamber pressure, O:F ratio)
I'm trying to get a hold of various technical specifications for the RD-171MV engine A modification of RD-171M being developed for the Irtysh rocket. Unlike RD-171M it's completely made from Russian ...
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Is there an API for accessing old TLEs of non-historic objects?
There are various APIs online for accessing TLEs for a satellite object from CelesTrak. However, the APIs retrieved are usually the most recent ones generated. There are also a lesser number of APIs ...
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What pictures did Mrs. Hart show to Congress?
In the record of the July 17 and 18, 1962 "Qualifications for Astronauts" hearings before the special subcommittee on the selection of astronauts that was organized to know if women could ...
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What is the safety record of launch vehicles per person-distance traveled, over all time?
Sometimes, the safety of various forms of transportation are compared based on the rate of fatalities (or injuries or other unplanned destructive accidents) per person-mile or person-kilometer ...
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Is the telemetry from the Apollo Lunar rovers available?
Are there publicly-available datasets of the telemetry from the Apollo lunar rovers? Was rover telemetry even recorded during those missions? If such datasets exist, I would love to retrieve the (...
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Is there a publicly available inventory of things sent to the ISS?
I spent some time looking through NASA datasets and news articles, and couldn't find anything, so I'm hoping that someone in the community will know better than I do: I'm trying to understand what the ...
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Arrhenius' calculation of the temperature of Venus
In this answer, we learn that in the early 1900s, Nobel Prize winner Svante Arrhenius believed that Venus was covered in lush swamps. His book on this matter, "the destinies of the stars", ...
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History of investigation of lunar and Martian surface gravity
I wonder when it was discovered that the Moon has about a sixth of the Earth's surface gravity and that Mars has 0.38 g. I think that until Newton, everyone assumed there was the same gravity on every ...
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Looking for a document that describes SSME test failures
At some point in the last 5 years I put together this matrix of Space Shuttle Main Engine test failures. The last 6 columns are documents which describe some of the incidents in more or less detail. ...
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If I wanted to reconstruct an entire Apollo mission's crewed spacecraft trajectories, what are the key sources of historical data I'd look for?
The last few images in Robert A. Braeunig's Apollo 11's Translunar Trajectory; and how they avoided the heart of the radiation belts are fascinating and a bit perplexing as discussed in this answer ...
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Where is this LightSail-2 trajectory data coming from? Is there more than TLEs available to the public?
This tweet shows high granularity data for LightSail-2's perigee and apogee, showing that while the apogee-raising strategy is working nicely, currently atmospheric drag is taking its toll and the ...
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Where can I get design details about spacecrafts and space mission? [closed]
I am doing a project on designing a mission to Mars. I am researching similar missions and I want to find information on the mission details like Delta V, trajectories etc. and details of the ...
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