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Jay Gallentine
Hello everyone,

In researching a social history of unmanned spaceflight, I am stuck on (yet another) conundrum: who, praytell, first came up with the concept of a ullage motor, to settle fuel in a weightless upper-stage?

Right now I have it that it's the Soviets, in working out the bugs on their Molniya launcher, but what do people think?

Thanks much,
Jay Gallentine
Jim from NSF.com
Thor Agena had them for Discover
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