Space Forum / Space History / May 2004

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Subject: Cassini-Huygens Mission Status Report - May 28, 2004

But do you think whoever came up with the horizontally integrated
Shuttle/External tank idea had this book as a kid? Circa 1959:
http://sun3.lib.uci.edu/~jsisson/gifs/showmest.gif
.....meanwhile, maybe it's an Atlas...maybe it's a Thor, but whatever it

I am making a small research on rocket explosions that have caused
victims all over the world, and I have a few questions on some ot
them. Maybe someone can help:
- China, january 25, 1995. A CZ-2E launcher carrying an Apstar

All the stories about space are bogus, there is no space! All the
planets are attached to the skies and the skies are standing on two
giant pillars.And the earth is a disc.
Space is rubbish, nonsense, crap.

So the captain of the moon craft asks his crew to start some process
which would maintain the attitude of the craft to be parallel to the
tangent of the flight path.  Does that not happen automatically for an
orbiting craft?

Looking for an interesting picture from Gemini 3 or 10.
Thanks in advance,

    It just occurred to me that with the current flight stand-down
Barbara Morgan must surely have waited some 20 years for her flight -
assuming it ever happens.  One has to admire her determination!  
    Who else would come close to this extraordinary delay?  I can

Once they are retired whats the best way to display one at KSC?
What I DONT want to see is a proud vehicle being exposed to the elements, and
becoming a home for birds.
I was thinking upright on one of the pads, with the entire pad enclosed in

The Gemini Familiarization Manuals Vol. 1 & 2
shows 5 or 6 unique adapter section layouts
for batteries and fuel cells installed in
Gemini's 3 through 12. Each spacecraft is

Here and there I've read books on spaceflight that make mention of the
garbage that accumulates in a spacecraft, and what to do with it.  If the
flight is short enough, all the garbage is just stored on board and brought
back to the ground for disposal.  But during the Soviet Salyut ...

Anyone else look at _this_ image:
http://sun3.lib.uci.edu/~jsisson/gifs/statsp4.gif
...and think, "To Serve Man".
You can really tell how old this is because all the men are still wearing hats.

Do you believe it would still be scheduled for retirement today?
Lets imagine a alternate design with launch boost escape, and easier cheaper
servicing. Say motors rather than APUs, being rid of those nasty fuels. Liquid
boosters rather than solids.

Kapton!
Eureka, it's Kapton!
Thanks, OM; I found the answer by browsing your Apollo 17 CM foto gallery.
I remembered that _somewhere_ in there you mentioned that stuff by name by

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Wednesday May 05, 2004
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