Space Forum / Space History / November 2004

The Gemini hatch on Skylab: was it new, or a recycled item from a
Gemini spacecraft?
Related: what other equipment onboard Skylab was recycled, flown
equipment from previous missions? I seem to recall something about

And I mean, like, whoooooo-oooaaaaa-aaa!
I don't know if Pink Floyd has any plans for another album after "The
Division Bell", but the cover art's already been done:
http://makeashorterlink.com/?A2B2315E9

What are the chances that mars was a blue planet hundreds of thousands  of
years ago with a thriving advanced civilization. But they became so radio
and laser noisey that some aliens from another part of the galaxy came by
and blasted them to oblivion with planet killer weapons.

Not too soon to start considering this, lads!
IMHO, Rusty Barton has it hands down, with his virtually endless list of
where to find the PDFs of the NASA stuff...and something I missed until
I happened to get to the bottom of these pages before clicking on one of

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When have there been more than 2 astronauts/cosmonauts performing EVAs at
the same time?

I just finished this book, thoroughly enjoyed it from cover to cover, and
would recommend it for your Chrisnukkah lists.  Along with some history and
philosophy of these probes, it has a good discussion about the various
interactions between organizations.

After thousands of years of looking at blue skies, are there any anticipated
psychological challenges awaiting Martian astronauts waking up to a red dawn
and looking at red skies all Martian day ?? From pictures taken by the
various Martian landers we get an idea as to what a ...

I understand that NASA astronaut Scott Horowitz and possibly one other
NASA astronaut were in attendance at the first SpaceShip1 suborbital
flight in June.  Does anyone know who the unidentified other one was?
Did NASA astronauts attend any of the other SS1 flights?

NASA 'Scramjet' Launched on Mach 10 Try
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A tiny unmanned NASA "scramjet" soared above the Pacific
Ocean Tuesday at nearly 10 times the speed of sound, or almost 7,000 mph, in a
successful demonstration of a radical new engine technology

I was looking over the Monsters in Motion website and came across these
four new Apollo replicas as well as some other Moon-related things.
Lunar Rover and base:
http://www.monstersinmotion.com/catalog/product_info.php/products_id/6370?osCsid
=90a1f4cf0959e4505aaae3e3b9bc3baa

...I'm ashamed to say that we Space Historians totally missed this
one, it seems. I'll take the blame for this one if Beady will take the
blame for missing the anniversary of Roy Flemming's flight.
                OM

I am having a hard time finding any long duration Apollo CSM flights
prior to October 1968. There were 2 short orbital tests on the Saturn
V, but it appears that all Saturn IB flights were sub orbital. I am
surprised that NASA did not schedule a full dress rehearsal of Apollo

Got a variety of items up on ebay, from space-related items to original Star
Trek production sketches to model kits. Check out (watch the word wrap):
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=13904&item=3941510033&r
d=1

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