Space Forum / Space History / April 2004

You can chose English if you bring up the Czech language version.   An
overdue site to this unforgettable program.
http://www.jirzy.webzdarma.cz/indexe.html

I was trying to dig up info today on n the filmed views of the Earth
taken out of the Vostok/Voshkod, and  rewatched my tape of this- which
is downright priceless; lots of rocket explosions (including, at the
beginning, the _entire_ Atlas flight that drops its flaming tail ...

I'm restarting the old resin model kit business I used to run years ago,
Part Time Models. There are a vast assortment of spacecraft models I'm
interested in modeling, but I want to do some things that'll sell (last
time I just made models of whatever I felt like...). To that end, ...

What is the current longest manned mission without re-supply?
Thinking about it, there should be two different answers;
1) Docking to an existing structure
and

    A friend asked why Tang was sent up on early spaceflights,
rather than various other drinks, orange juice, instant coffee, and so
on.  Coffee was easy enough to explain pre-Apollo, certainly, but ...
    Looking up the biomedical results of Project Mercury I could

I saw in a store that they had on sale a bunch of DVD edited
by NASA on Appolo 15, Appolo 8, Saturn.
Does someone own one of those DVD ? are they interesting as
they are quite pricey.

I dropped by Border's book store this afternoon. I walked out with 3
copies of Michael Light's wonderful Full Moon. Superb reproductions of
the very best of the Apollo photographs. They cost me $16. That's $16
*total*, $5.33 each. I gladly paid ten times that for my first copy.

I just (finally!) managed to get a copy of Apogee Books' Apollo 17
Mission Report.  I notice that there were contingency missions planned
for Apollo 17 (just as there were for all the lunar landing missions) in
cases of no TLI, SPS failure, landing abort, etc.

I drove down to Austin, Texas a few weeks ago for vacation and visited the
Capitol.  I'd always wanted to do this but in the past I'd been frustrated
by such things as a Texas Longhorns football game in progress, or the
Legislature was in session... you couldn't find a parking space ...

Coming soon to an In-box near you:
Subject: Nigerian Astronaut Wants To Come Home
Dr. Bakare Tunde
Astronautics Project Manager

Way off topic, but I can't resist the chance to ask Derek if he's seen
"Sub Down", which was shown on TV here last night and I'm watching on
video. It's directed by Alan Smithee, which is a very bad sign :-) and
the captain has just said "submerge the ship". Aren't they usually

I read it in Pravda, so it must be true:
http://english.pravda.ru/main/2002/04/01/27272.html
Now _this_ is a crash program! :-)
Pat

It's not *that* kind of a question:
I'm talking about simulations -- did NASA ever fly LM interior mockups
in the Vomit Comet when training astronauts to land on the Moon? I was
wondering if any sims were done so that astronauts could feel their

Guys,
I don't know how I missed the Nigerian cosmonaut story: see? Told you so!!!
;0)

Msnbc.com (Oberg): The war of words over war in space
Terminology touches off Pentagon test tempest
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4732874/
caption: An artist's conception shows the Near Field Infrared Experiment