Space Forum / Space History / October 2004

From: "Alan Erskine" <alanerskine1@bigpond.com>
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Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 08:52:33 GMT
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Back in I guess about '67, McD-D built a mockup of the Big G Gemini
that could carry a baseball team into space. The mockup had windows
built into the sides to see inside.
Does that mockup still exist? Is it on display anywhere?

All of the PDF's in http://ntrs.nasa.gov/ are fully available again after a
two week hiatus.  I've just spent a glorious couple of hours downloading
more of that wonderful data again.  Enjoy.
And my heartfelt thanks to the guys at NASA.  It must have been a heck of a

Okay, somebody explain to me what the hell this is all about:
http://www.ninfinger.org/~sven/models/gemini/winggemini.html
http://www.ninfinger.org/~sven/models/gemini/wg_01.jpg
http://www.ninfinger.org/~sven/models/gemini/wg_02.jpg

While looking through the NASA NTRS archive I found this
document showing an early concept for Apollo that used
an inflatable airlock for spacewalks:
"Apollo, volume 4 - Growth and advanced concepts Final report"

I, like many folks who read this newsgroup, downloaded the .pdf files
that Rusty brought to our attention. Thanks Rusty! I attempted to put
the .pdf files I downloaded on a CD-R. I used Roxio's CD Creator, and
successfuilly created a data file with the .pdf files. However, when I

Was Roger Chaffee the actual U-2 pilot who took the San Cristobal
photos that were shown to Kennedy and displayed in the UN by Adlai
Stevenson?

A while back, while discussing LC 39, I remarked that they must have
had much bigger (tentative) plans for the Saturn V.  See:
http://www.astronautix.com/lvfam/saturnv.htm
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hi ..
does anyone know how far into the "coffin corner" (how close has high
speed stall to low speed stall gotten) white knight is at maximum
altitude with SS1 attached?

A few months ago, at a library sale, I picked up a book about
the Cape, published in 1968, titled " Liftoff! The Story Of
America's Spaceport ", by L. B. Taylor. Fine condition, too.
Anyway, skimming in the early Apollo section, I found something

Seems that China's 20th return capsule landed a tad off the mark-
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/china-04zzq.html
Dale

Msnbc.com(Oberg)--Tribute to an unsung space hero
Spacecraft designer Max Faget leaves a huge legacy
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6227454
By James Oberg, NBC News space analyst // Special to MSNBC

"Alan Erskine"  <alanerskine1@bigpond.com>wrote in message news:<eI08d.13179$5O5.37900@news-server.bigpond.net.au>...

These are actual space shuttle mission ground track map discarded from
NASA, post mission.  They are in excellent condition, in color, without
extraneous folds or markings.  The maps are labeled with printing date,
orbital flight paths, degrees, latitudes, longitudes, political ...

Several times I've run across wisecracks that the US space program of
the 1960s (and after?) was socialist-style -- government-run,
centralized, keeping unproductive centers alive, etc... while the
competing designers and design teams of the USSR's program looked in