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Star Trek Comes to Life

Pasadena : CA : USA | May 06, 2010 at 11:10 PM PDT

By Sherrill Fulghum

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When Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, Scotty, Sulu, and Lt. Uhura came into our living rooms via the television show "Star Trek" in the nineteen sixties, it was a fascinating space adventure that could only be a dream.

In the episide "Spock's Brain" a group of "educationally challenged" females had a space craft that was propelled by ion propulsion. Next year NASA and the Jet Propulsion Lab will launch "Dawn" an unmanned spacecraft that will not only explore more than one asteroid, but will orbit these celestial bodies very much in the same manner as the USS Enterprise orbited planets throughout the galaxy. Dawn will be the first space craft that will use ion propulsion/ The control room for Dawn resembles Scotty's engine room on board the Enterprise.

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the future is now in space travel

Sherrill Fulghum is based in Niagara Falls, New York, United States of America, and is an Anchor for Allvoices.

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Posted By

instgtr | about 2 years ago

Sherill,

Do you remember a tevevision series that came out 30 or so years ago that had Andy Griffith, who was the owner of a junk yard? They built a space ship and travelled around in it - but what was interesting was the ship used a propulsion system (I don't think it was Ion), ut it started very, very slowly (literally crawling) but got faster and faster as it travelled...

That's the theory behind an Ion engine, it has VERY little thrust, but in space, it keeps going and going (like the energizer bunny) but continues to accelerate until it's speed is way the hell faster than anything we can do now.

The main "drawback" is that once it gets to that speed - it has the same "problem" in slowing down... (very, very slowly)

btw - I loved the video and the reference to Scotty's engine room and the power plant!

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Sherrill Fulghum | about 2 years ago

Hi Dennis
No, I don't know the show, but I just looked it up on IMDB and it was called "Salvage 1"

"Brain, brain, what is brain?" - one of the "educationally challenged" girls on the ship. :)

According to JPL, this one won't go real fast.