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Happy 91st anniversary to veteran astronaut Thomas Stafford ! NASA astronaut & Air Force LtGeneral Thomas Patten Stafford celebrated his 91st anniversary... a veteran of 4 spaceflight missions, among which the historic Apollo-Soyuz Test Project flight in 1975. In 1962 Thomas Stafford was selected as an Astronaut in NASA group 2 aka the “New Nine” or the “Next Nine”. Following his retirement, LtGeneral Stafford served on several corporate boards, among which Omega SA in the USA since 1979. In the early 1990s, Omega & NASA turned to Thomas Stafford in order to get his input in conceiving the multi-purpose quartz X-33 Speedmaster chronograph, which has been tested onboard the space shuttle orbiters since February 1996 and operationally used onboard the Russian space station “Mir” between 1998-2002 and onboard the ISS - International Space Station since October 2000. (Photo: NASA)
From 2020 Machine Man #001, “Computer Love - Part 1”
Art by Andy MacDonald and Dono Sánchez-Almara
Written by Christos Gage
"A NASA SR-71 successfully completed its first flight October 31, 1997 as part of the NASA/Rocketdyne/Lockheed Martin Linear Aerospike SR-71 Experiment (LASRE) at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California.
The SR-71 took off at 8:31 a.m. PST. The aircraft flew for one hour and fifty minutes, reaching a maximum speed of Mach 1.2 before landing at Edwards at 10:21 a.m. PST, successfully validating the SR-71/linear aerospike experiment configuration.
The goal of the first flight was to evaluate the aerodynamic characteristics and the handling of the SR-71/linear aerospike experiment configuration. The engine was not fired during the flight."
Date: October 31, 1997
NASA ID: EC97-44295-100
Video of Rockwell proposal for the X-33.
Date: 1995
Video of McDonnell Douglas proposal of the X-33.
Date: 1995
Video of the Lockheed Martin proposal for the X-33.
Date: 1995
"This artist's rendering depicts the McDonnell Douglas X-33 proposal. this was to serve as a technology demonstrator of a Single-Stage-To-Orbit (SSTO) Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV). McDonnell Douglas submitted a vertical landing configuration design which used liquid oxygen/hydrogen engines. NASA considered design submissions from Rockwell, Lockheed Martin, and McDonnell Douglas. NASA selected Lockheed Martin's X-33 design on 2 July 1996. The RLV technology program was a cooperative agreement between NASA and industry. The goal of the RLV technology program was to produce significant reductions in the cost of access to space, and to promote the creation and delivery of new space services and other activities that would have improve U.S. economic competitiveness."
Date: May 1996
Computer art by J. Frassanito & Associates
NASA ID: EC96-43631-6