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SSRT: Flight no. 2 apparently successful; DC-XA renamed
- To: David <David@InterWorld.com>, hous0042 <hous0042@maroon.tc.umn.edu>, KellySt <KellySt@aol.com>, rddesign <rddesign@wolfenet.com>, Steve VanDevender <stevev@efn.org>, "T.L.G.vanderLinden" <T.L.G.vanderLinden@student.utwente.nl>, bmansur@oc.edu, zkulpa@zmit1.ippt.gov.pl, jim@bogie2.bio.purdue.edu, DotarSojat@aol.com
- Subject: SSRT: Flight no. 2 apparently successful; DC-XA renamed
- From: "L. Parker" <lparker@gnt.net>
- Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1996 19:01:55 -0500
>Return-Path: chrisj@mail.utexas.edu
>From: chrisj@mail.utexas.edu (Chris W. Johnson)
>To: "Single Stage Rocket Technology News" <ssrt-news@zimbazi.cc.utexas.edu>
>Subject: SSRT: Flight no. 2 apparently successful; DC-XA renamed
>Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 16:08:37 -0600
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>
>I haven't found a press release or other formal statement on the second
>(today's) DC-XA flight yet, but judging from the satellite video feed, it
>appears to have been a success. Chris Cooley generously volunteered to tape
>and digitize this morning's flight, and the resulting images and QuickTime
>movie are available from either:
>
> http://gargravarr.cc.utexas.edu/delta-clipper/dcxa-flight-2/index.html
> ftp://ftp.utexas.edu/pub/ssrt/images/dcxa-flight-2/
>
>The movie is nearly 11 megabytes in size, so the Web site may well be
>overloaded (I'm using some relatively low-capacity server software at the
>moment), so try the FTP site if the Web site gives you any trouble.
>
>If you need QuickTime viewer software for your platform, see:
>
> http://quicktime.apple.com/qt/sw/sw.html
>
>----Chris
>
>Chris W. Johnson
>
>Email: chrisj@mail.utexas.edu
>URL: http://gargravarr.cc.utexas.edu/
>
>"It is only now beginning to dawn on us that an American city with its
>immense freeway and parking infrastructure resembles not so much a city
>of the 21st century as a city which has suffered saturation bombing."
>--Wolfgang Zuckermann
>
>
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>From: baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke)
>Newsgroups: sci.space.news
>Subject: DC-XA Renamed for Space Pioneer
>Followup-To: sci.space.policy
>Date: 7 Jun 1996 11:28:07 -0700
>Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
>Lines: 42
>
>James Cast
>Headquarters, Washington, DC June 7, 1996
>(Phone: 202/358-1779)
>
>RELEASE: 96-114
>
>REVOLUTIONARY NEW LAUNCH VEHICLE RENAMED FOR SPACE PIONEER
>
> NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin today announced
>that the Agency's experimental DC-XA flight vehicle -- a
>vertical takeoff and landing rocket ship -- will
>be re-named "Clipper Graham" in honor of the late Lt.
>General Daniel O. Graham.
>
> "NASA is committed to developing and demonstrating
>reusable launch vehicle technologies. Graham was a
>visionary who championed the promise of fully reusable
>single-stage-to-orbit vehicles at a time when the majority
>of the space community were skeptics. We're doing this in
>commemoration of his vision in opening the space frontier,"
>Goldin said.
>
> Formerly called the Delta Clipper, the four-story DC-
>XA is currently conducting a series of unmanned flight tests
>in New Mexico for NASA. The project was conceived to
>provide NASA's Reusable Launch Vehicle Program with an
>early, small scale flight demonstration of advanced
>technologies required by reusable launch vehicles. The DC-
>XA, developed by the Department of Defense, incorporates the
>latest advances in technology, propulsion systems and
>composite materials.
>
> A West Point graduate, Graham served in a number of
>high military and government posts including Deputy Director
>of the Central Intelligence Agency and Director of the
>Defense Intelligence Agency. He also founded and became
>Chairman of the Space Transportation Association to assure
>continued U.S. leadership and superiority in providing
>reliable, economical space transportation systems.
>
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