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Steve Eves Scale Saturn V Launch Successful 0

Submitted by Black-Six on Monday April 27 2009, @01:21AM

Black-Six writes "On April 25, 2009, Steve Eves made history with the successful launch and recovery of his 1/10th scale model Saturn V rocket. Having discussed this already, I feel that a round of applause is due and I congratulate Steve on his success. http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/2009/04/one_tenth_scale.html"

Comment: Close, but no cigar yet. (Score 0, Redundant) 113

by Black-Six on Friday April 18 2008, @12:06PM (#23118600) Attached to: A New Family of High-Temperature Superconductors

"High Temperature"? I wouldn't call 55K a very warm temp at all. Although, this is a significant break through in getting a material closer to "at room temp" superconducting. They need to get to the range of 273-310K before it will be of widespread feasibility to use. However, a 55K superconductor would be useful in several spaceflight applications. This might lead to the development of a new propulsion system or much more powerful ion drives.