On a rainy Eastside Seattle day, the brain can struggle to come up with a catchy hook for a new post. Luckily sometimes they just write themselves…
First Speaker: It looks like Space Manufacturing might finally be getting understood, a hungrier generation moving in. Some Mars people are even acknowledging the need for the bootstraps.
— Well, Zubrin has always admitted that you aren’t going to make it to Mars without learning how to spin first. It doesn’t mean any work is going to be done.
FS: But this is more than the human side, some up-and-coming agency people are saying the simple O’Neillian words “Mass-driver” out loud instead of cowering behind all that ‘electromagnetic hyperpropulsive superconducting slideway’ hideyspeak.
— Things could be coming together.
FS: Could be.
— Hey, speaking of ‘Coming together’. Docking. We got another commercial request for the VSS1 file.
FS: You know what? This time, let it out free to the public. Let everyone read it. See what flies.
— Done.
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And just like that.
The SSI Translation of Vladimir S. Syromiatnikov’s legendary classic: Spacecraft Docking Devices.
Enjoy!
(play with the buttons on the viewer, they’re there to help you. On a mobile device, the book will open in a new tab.)
For some background on this classic SSI Technical translation, see the article from SSI SVP Gregg Maryniak about Mr. Chris Faranetta’s trip east in the SSI Update newsletter of the day, right here on ssi.org.