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Can other Q&A sites be a source for answers?
IMHO Quora is mostly unregulated junk. There are a few good posters there on space topics as long as they stay in their respective wheelhouses: former astronaut Clay Anderson; ISS instructor Robert ...
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What are ways that we can show 3D orbits and other 3D things in posts?
My go-to plotting method is Plotly, which generates amazing, interactive* figures in 3D and 2D. The resulting figures are either hosted on Plotly's web page, or in the form of an HTML file on your ...
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Where did all the Apollo era NTRS documents go? Do we need to preserve them?
In many cases they are probably already backed up to archive.org. Your example links are:
https://web.archive.org/web/20161210045811/http://www.christophermadsen.com/docs/19750070175_1975070175.pdf
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What is "NIX" on the NASA Technical Reports Server?
NIX doesn't really exist any more. It was one of the many redundant image sites NASA had, specifically one hosted at Langley. It used to look like this.
(internet archive link)
Note that the weblink ...
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Software tools for space exploration available online
Mission design libraries and toolkits
These pieces of software are useful for mission design simulations. They are not standalone (but some examples may exist): they require various levels of ...
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Dummy answer and one in progress for the same question allowed?
Dummy answer and one in progress for the same question allowed?
I've seen answers with "in progress" or "under construction" once in a while here in Space Exploration SE, and probably used that once ...
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What are ways that we can show 3D orbits and other 3D things in posts?
Cesium.js is a Javascript library designed for visualizing dynamic geospatial data in 3D. It was developped by the same team that developped AGI's STK software. The library is free to use and is very ...
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Can other Q&A sites be a source for answers?
Organic Marble's answer is great, but I want to add some supplementary ideas and I think this is going to end up too long for a comment.
There are a couple of good ways to think of sources:
How far ...
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How can NASA be alerted to their expired security certificates?
I mentioned this as a comment over on the infosec page, but a huge number of NASA sites -- particularly the ones not directly under the control of the various PAOs -- are going to be signed by ...
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How can NASA be alerted to their expired security certificates?
The usual process when wanting to report any security bug, vulnerability or other security related issue is to contact security@xxxx so in this case try [email protected]
This should be connected to ...
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Resources and references on the topic of space exploration
NASA Space Vehicle Design Criteria (Chemical Propulsion) series
A series of monographs from the 1970s covering many aspects of rocket propulsion system design. (There may be other entries in the ...
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Resources and references on the topic of space exploration
Propellants - fuels and oxidizers
Ignition! An Informal History of
Liquid Rocket Propellants. John D. Clark, 1972. Available in pdf.
Safety Standard for Oxygen and Oxygen Systems. NASA, 1996. ...
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Dummy answer and one in progress for the same question allowed?
I frequently post minimal answers quickly. I admit that I do it in order to discourage people from posting even poorer answers — more because I find reading bad answers to be excruciating than out of ...
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Should there be a “no evidence of research” flag/VTC option?
(Extended from comment.)
I think the question boils down to: do we want to answer trivial questions or not. Both direction has some dangers.
Disadvantages of making them off-topic:
It would cause ...
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Should there be a “no evidence of research” flag/VTC option?
I understand the sentiment and concern but before adding more features to the site let's do our homework.
What existing, documented problem that could not be addressed with existing tools would now ...
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What are ways that we can show 3D orbits and other 3D things in posts?
Since you can code in Python, I suggest taking a look at SageMath which is built on top of Python, and can do various 2D plotting (via matplotlib) & interactive 3D plotting. It's not perfect, but ...
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Dummy answer and one in progress for the same question allowed?
Any answer must be able to stand on its own.
You can absolutely revisit and improve an answer over time, providing the original answer you give is, in fact, an acceptable answer to the question.
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Should there be a “no evidence of research” flag/VTC option?
I stopped participating in Space.SE three months ago, because another user said he would no longer answer my questions because he felt I already knew the answers.
So if you don't do any research, some ...
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What is "NIX" on the NASA Technical Reports Server?
According to NASA itself,
The NASA Image eXchange (NIX) is a web-based search engine for simultaneously searching one or more of NASA's online image and photo collections.
As the saying goes, a ...
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Dummy answer and one in progress for the same question allowed?
It's not really necessary on Space.SE
There are other SE sites where the early answers have a huge advantage, even if incomplete. New answers get pushed so far down the page that they hardly get ...
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Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible