Space Forum / Space History / January 2004

Reading through the Judica Cordiglia's book, one interesting note: they
recorded Tereshkova's voice in orbit (doppler effect detected), conversing
with Bykovsky, a day before the official date of the launch... She did not
sound very calm.

In central Florida. Obviously, the Cape, the new ( Since the
last time I was there ) Saturn V Museum, et al, but what of
holes in the walls kinds of places that aren't on the Disney
A list types of public places ?

The cost of one manned mission to Mars ($400.00 B ) is equivalent to a
thousand robotic missions.( $0.40 B) We could put dozens of scientific
satellites in ordit around not only all our solar system's planets but also
all their major moons. In addition we could send dozens of  ...

Maybe it's just me, but does Bush's soon to be proposed
space initiative seem to really be about killing the Shuttle
(and manned space in general), without Bush having to go down
as The Man Who Killed The Shuttle?

Bush to announce new missions to moon
Posted 1/8/2004 8:43 PM
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — President Bush will announce plans
next week to send Americans to Mars and back to the moon and to

But sometimes I hit London.
http://community.webshots.com/album/48281241HPbCDx
Hallerb

Okay, imagine Bush puts out a "Mars by 2014" program.
Would there be any reason/advantage to assemble the ship in orbit,
using the existing Shuttle fleet, or would it be better to build a
Saturn-type vehicle and push the whole thing to Mars in one shot?

From the MER main page, this foto of "Adirondack Rock":
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/press/spirit/20040119a/P2543_Sol14_L456-A
16R1.jpg
I'm including the large-size image as it more clearly includes the feature
that I'm sure the conspiracy fr33ks will just drool over.

Well, shut my face. Man, did I blow that guess. The release about the HST
servicing cancellation hit the group a few hours after I posted asking how
much HST servicing mission could be bought for $87b.
If I read this wire service copy right, it's $500b for the HST servicing

Astonishingly, this actually has space history in it.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3387895.stm
"Computer researcher Don Mitchell used original digital data from two
Soviet Venera probes that landed in 1975. His reprocessed and

Our ancestors had spaceships with hyperdrive-engines, they could
travel between solar systems in a few hours.
But someone stole our spaceships !
Or did our ancestors simply drive too fast and where arrested by space

...as I still remember all the big-a.s speeches and foto ops he staged
while claiming to support Our Brave Boys<tm>, all the while cutting
veterans' benefits and closing VA hospitals, and sh.tting on veterans in
general...and the big-a.s deal he makes about caring about education, ...

Hi All...
Just a question - would an Apollo style escape tower system have
worked if a new (theoretical Capsule Design) OSP had a serious problem
at around the same time frame as the Challenger disaster... would

From an article in the February, 2001 edition of Petroleum News:
http://www.petroleumnews.com/pnarch/010228-49.html
"If there is life on Mars, it would probably be microorganisms in water
deep below the surface of the planet. Dr. Geoffrey Briggs, director,

Olympus Mons is quoted as being nearly 27 Km high.
27 Km above what?
Obviously not above sea level. So what is used as the baseline?
Jane