Space Forum / Space History / August 2004

If Apollo 7 had ended up with a damaged oxygen tank (similar to Apollo
13), and it failed as it did on Apollo 13......
Would the crew have been stranded in low earth orbit, or would they
have been able to fire SPS or RCS to start reenty before all Service

I was under the impression that, while the Shuttle's wing configuration was
dictated by the Pentagon's requirement for crossrange, it still came in handy -
indeedm all of that crossrange is used in the current return trajectory,
especially from ISS orbits.  If this is correct, ...

I discovered hidden away in a cupboard a pack entitled "Touchdown On The
Moon". It was published in 1969 by Phillips and GEMINISCAN Ltd.
It consists of ten items:
1. Two press briefings.  A four page and a single page.

I ask this. Which is safer?
a shuttle
or a man rated capsule like apollo on a non man rated booster like a delta?
It would be interesting to take a historical look at a booster, and the failure

In view of some previous threads, there is a couple of new resin kits
available :
KORA
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...Someone forwarded this to me this morning. Source not cited, but
interesting reading, as well as a look back on the end of the Golden
Days of Radio:
(Damn thing's in all caps, so it'll look like a Min rant :-( )

<http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077294>
So, how many think this is were the Pres's advisors got the idea?
;])
TBerk

I just saw a copy of 'The Rocket Team' by Frederick Ordway and Mitchell
Sharpe at Barnes & Noble.  The 2003 edition includes a DVD with segments
on rocket flights from the 1920s - 1960s, two lectures by von Braun,
footage of Redstone and Saturn launches and other information.  ...

If the consumables situation on 13 would of absolutely guaranteed 3 could not
survive but 2 would return safely do you think one member of the crew would of
done the unthinkable:(
I apologize in advance for this question but sadly one day someone may be faced

I've recently come into possession of a .pdf of a scan of NASA SP-56,
"Concepts for Detection of Extraterrestrial Life", from 1964.
Fifty-something pages, quite interesting reading in places - it was
written as part of the then fledgling Mars effort, and a lot of bits and

The soyuz design is time tested, why not buy the rights from russia and build
it here? with some customizing it should do very well and be available fast.
HAVE A GREAT DAY!

Alanerskine@bigpond.com wrote

...Just got another one for cheap viagra with a rather familiar name.
Last one was from "Henry Spencer". This one's from "Gus Grissom".
Gah.
                OM

On 27 Aug 2004 15:19:43 GMT, Andrew Gray <andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk>
wrote:

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