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Date: Thu, 11 Oct 1990 02:19:28 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: SPACE Digest V12 #441

SPACE Digest                                     Volume 12 : Issue 441

Today's Topics:
		Re: Are there plans for new launchers?
	  First Launch Towards Mars - Thirtieth Anniversary
	     Pharmaceutical Manufacturing in Microgravity

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Date: 3 Oct 90 12:53:43 GMT
From: world!ksr!clj%ksr.com@decwrl.dec.com  (Chris Jones)
Subject: Re: Are there plans for new launchers?

In article <1990Oct2.163040.23160@zoo.toronto.edu>, henry@zoo (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <3557@rwthinf.UUCP> dieter@rwthinf.UUCP (Dieter Kreuer) writes:
> >>In former times, NASA developed one type of rocket after the other...
>
>You are confusing NASA with the military.  NASA developed the Saturns and
>the Shuttle, period.  The other US boosters are all converted missiles,
>although NASA was sometimes involved with those programs in modest ways.
>
NASA also developed the Scout and the Centaur (although the latter's concept
had been under study by the DoD and has always been launched on top of a
converted missile).  Also, the Vanguard booster was not a converted missile
(which meant it had no input from von Braun's team, a factor which contributed
to its less than sterling launch record).
 
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Chris Jones    clj@ksr.com    {world,uunet,harvard}!ksr!clj

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Date: 10 Oct 90 14:01:57 GMT
From: bacchus.pa.dec.com!shlump.nac.dec.com!advax.enet.dec.com!klaes@decwrl.dec.com  (Larry Klaes)
Subject: First Launch Towards Mars - Thirtieth Anniversary


        Though this probe failed to achieve even an Earth parking orbit, 
    today, October 10, marks the thirtieth anniversary of humanity's first 
    attempt to reach another planet, namely Mars.

        On October 10, 1960, the Soviet Union launched the first of two 
    unmanned space probes designed to flyby and examine the planet Mars.  
    Unfortunately, the MOLNIYA rocket booster which was delivering it
    towards interplanetary space suffered a malfunction in its upper 
    stages, causing the probe to plunge back to its destruction on the     
    ground.  Another attempt with a similar craft four days later fol-
    lowed a similar fate high above the Tyuratam Space Center in the
    Soviet Republic of Kazakhstan.

        In a policy which the Soviets have only recently begun to ease
    up on, nothing was mentioned of these space mission failures to the 
    rest of the world.  Even today, the human race's first attempts to 
    explore Mars are known in the West simply as MARS 1960A and 1960B.

        Fortunately our space vessels have become much more sophisticated 
    and successful since 1960, greatly improving our knowledge of Mars and 
    almost every other world in the solar system.  In another thirty years, 
    we will hopefully be celebrating the first human expedition to the 
    surface of the Red Planet.

         Larry Klaes 	klaes@advax.enet.dec.com
    			or  ...!decwrl!advax.enet.dec.com!klaes
    			or  klaes%advax.dec@decwrl.enet.dec.com
    			or  klaes%advax.enet.dec.com@uunet.uu.net

              "All the Universe, or nothing!" - H. G. Wells

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Date: 10 Oct 90 17:11:34 GMT
From: dftsrv!nssdcb.gsfc.nasa.gov!jordan@ames.arc.nasa.gov  (JOSEPH JORDAN)
Subject: Pharmaceutical Manufacturing in Microgravity

Does anyone know where and how I can obtain information about the 
latest proposals and ideas for manufacturing pharmaceuticals in 
microgravity?  I would like to know what drugs are being considered,
what diseases these drugs are used against, and why production in
microgravity would be preferred to "normal" gravity.  I'm doing
research for a science fiction story.  Please reply by E-MAIL to

     JORDAN@NSSDCB.GSFC.NASA.GOV


Joe Jordan

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