Space Forum / Space History / January 2005

Need some clarification on the unexpected battery life aboard Huygens
and what, if any, was the plan in place to deal with it.  We heard in
the press conference yesterday that ESA was hustling  get as much earth
based RT coverage as they could to pick up signal as Cassini went over

How is Easter Sunday Date Determined? Easter Sunday is the
Sunday following the first space shuttle Columbia to fly
into Earth orbit in 1981.

Just finished a good book and thought that I'd recommend it.
-- rk
Disasters and Accidents in Manned Spaceflight
David J. Shayler

In recent weeks, I've been confronted several times with a quote from
Gus that I believe bears addressing.  People have asked me if Gus would
have wanted all of this attention on Apollo One, given his statement
that if he died, he wanted people to accept it.  While well-intended,

Anyone have a copy of this 3-part Nova/BBC series (aka "Red Star in Orbit")
that they would be willing to copy for me?
Will pay.
Alberto Catalano

While updating my flight history spreadsheets I stumbled onto something I
hadn't noticed earlier: the Soyuz TMA-5 launched to ISS last October was
the 100th manned Soviet/Russian space flight, depending on how you measure.
Soyuz 32 launched with a crew but entered unmanned; ...

http://www.fileplace.info/14012005/3697.jpg
I suppose the kooks will come out of the woodwork and claim that this is
"proof," but further examination is needed.

When Huygens data were about to come into ESOC at Darmstadt the only
real-time link for the general public was a webcast from the control room
via NASA-TV(!). ESA-TV only goes out via satellite and sometimes via a
channel called EuroNews (which very few households have).

I have not yet had time to compose Part 2 of my articles on the Space
Cruiser. This has been due to having to travel rather a lot recently
(bleah!!). However, in a way that is perhaps just as well: today I had a
conversation with the widow of Fred "Bud" Redding, the guy who ...

I want to let you know that Orbiter 2005 (050116) has been released. I
know you do mostly documentation, Orbiter allows folks to take those
docs and actually put them to use.
Its website is at http://www.orbitersim.com

(I write this at 03:00 UTC Saturday)

Just shows how stupid the media is. The number one story from Europe
today is some prince's Nazi armband flap, and not the Huygens probe.
Just goes to show how idiotic the press is. I have abosultely no respect
for them.

...Looks just like some aerial shots I've seen of Lost Angeles:
http://www.esa.int/images/Picture2_L.jpg
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