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An early artist's impression of the ASTER 15 and an early (circa 1985) impression of a SAMP battery with the SA 90 ramjet powered missile and an early design for the Arabel radar.
An early artist's impression of the ASTER 15 and an early (circa 1985) impression of a SAMP battery with the SA 90 ramjet powered missile and an early design for the Arabel radar.
NASA Developing Asteroid Interceptor to Fend off Armageddon
On Friday Wired News profiled a "lonely" former astronaut, Rusty Schweickart, who is leading a campaign to protect the earth from the possibility of an asteroid crashing into Earth and killing millions of people. Turns out he wasn’t so lonely. While we said in the Q&A that NASA was doing little...
SR-71 Online - SR-71 Flight Manual: Section 5, Page 5-9
SR-71 Flight Manual: Section 5, Page 5-9
www.sr-71.org
Mach 3.68 is the highest speed claimed by a pilot.
The thrill of flying the SR-71 Blackbird
I can tell you about the SR-71 Blackbird's titanium frame, its Pratt&Whitney J58-P4 engines, or its genesis. But that's not important. What really matters is the thrill of flying it in an extremely dangerous mission, as remembered by this pilot.—JD
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