CollectAir is a real "brick and mortar", traditional aviation
art gallery chock full of original art, prints, sculpture, vintage
display models, new American-made and foreign-made hand-crafted
models, ephemera, vintage model airplane exhibits with old kits and
engines for sale, books and aeronautical artifacts. A few items are
for display only but most are for sale.
A navigation instrument that determines direction relative to
the stars. An astrocompass is not affected by the errors inherent
in magnetic compasses and gyrocompasses.
"A lot of us turned to this [Direct] because we
realized Ares is not going to fly. . . . Based on the ground rules
placed upon NASA by Congress -- that as much of the shuttle system
as possible needed to be used -- Direct is the best
solution."
Source: An anonymous NASA contractor working on
the Constellation program at Kennedy Space Center, regarding an
alternative to NASA's Ares rocket system now under development.
Called Direct 2.0, or the Jupiter 120, the program actually began
life as NASA's own work back in 1986 as a concept to restart the
space program after the loss of Challenger.
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