re: How to leave LEO

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gbaikie — 4/13/2004 7:47:30 AM (archived)

"There isn't any experience in transfering a large amount of fuel from one spacecraft to another, in weightlessness!"

"First gas station in space: The first refueling in orbit was from an unmanned Progress tanker to the Salyut 6 space station in 1978. Cosmonauts Georgi Grechko and Yuri Romanenko were in the station."
http://www.spacetoday.org/History/ManInSpaceFirsts/CreatureComforts.html

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How to leave LEO - Raoul - 4/12/2004 4:39:56 PM
- Fuel Transfer in zero g - Nick Hoffman - 4/13/2004 4:21:29 PM
  - re: Saturn 5 - Raoul - 4/13/2004 9:56:12 PM
    - re: Saturn 5 - Tom Brosz - 4/13/2004 11:20:48 PM
- re: How to leave LEO - gbaikie - 4/13/2004 7:47:30 AM
  - re: How to leave LEO - Raoul - 4/13/2004 3:38:43 PM
- Depends on where you're going - E.P. Grondine - 4/12/2004 9:47:59 PM
  - re: Depends on where you're going - Raoul - 4/13/2004 3:43:19 PM
    - re: Depends on where you're going - E.P. Grondine - 4/14/2004 4:24:12 PM

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