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From: bob@its63b.ed.ac.uk (ERCF08 Bob Gray)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle,sci.space
Subject: Re: Coming to the National Air & Space Museum
Keywords: Computers & Rocket Vehicle Design for visitors
Message-ID: <1460@its63b.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 13 Jun 88 11:40:47 GMT
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Reply-To: bob@its63b.ed.ac.uk (ERCF08 Bob Gray)
Organization: I.T. School, Univ. of Edinburgh, U.K.
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In article <684@atux01.UUCP> jlc@atux01.UUCP (J. Collymore) writes:
>I am cross-posting this netnews article from comp.sys.mac.

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>Students Give Museum Visitors A Chance To Launch Rockets
[...]
>The software will allow museum visitors to see how changing variables such as
>thrust, weight and fuel type affect a rocket's ability to overcome gravity and
>leave the earth's atmosphere.   Once a visitor arrives at a workable design,
>the program "launches" the rocket, calculates the maximum altitude it will
>reach and compares these results with attempts by other visitors.

Exactly this type of system has been running in the
Spaceflight gallery in the Science Museum in London for
the last two and a half years.

You are asked to select number of stages; thrust and fuel
type for each stage; and the payload weight.

The computer then launches the rocket, and draws the trajectory
it would follow.

For ease of calculation the Earth is assumed to be flat, but
some designs still make it into orbit. :->
	Bob.