Space Forum / Space History / December 2004

Just got this alert from a friend -- a LOT
of unpublished Polyus images at
http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=30510
This was the bird that the Soviets military built and planned

http://www.space.com/news/john_young_041204.html
Guess he won't be working on the new project to head back to the Moon.
Still, he's been at it more than long enough. It would be really interesting
for him to write a book on his 40+ years with the program. Actually, he's

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I just had the extreme pleasure of speaking with Mike Melvill
yesterday, the pilot of SpaceShipOne's first two flights above the

Going thru my search for Phantom astronauts< I've run a cross references to
Apollo 18 Missions:
'Moonseed' by Stephen Baxter
James Mitcherns 'Space'

Rand Simberg (simberg.interglobal@org.trash) writes:

The BBC seem to be having a bit of a space night tonight. One of the
programmes on offer is "British Space Race", a history of the British
space programme from the 1940s through Blue Streak and Black Arrow to
Beagle 2.

Hei
Has anyone seen New Moon Rising by Sietzen and Cowing? Any comments?
Best, IL of FI

I'm kind of curious as to how individual spacecraft were assigned to
missions. (My source for the following is the excellent "Field Guide to
American Spacecraft" --
http://aesp.nasa.okstate.edu/fieldguide/pages/aaindex/home1.html )

Anyone seen this yet?:
http://www.aviationnow.com/avnow/news/channel_businessweekly_story.jsp?id=news/S
SO11014.xml
Sounds almost like the reemergence of the Soviet "Spiral-50/50" system
in an unmanned payload form.