Space Forum / Space History / January 2005

I don't know what happened to my earlier post; it's been 10 hours and
still isn't up, so I'm starting a new thread.  Here is the relevant
portion of the transcript; what I posted earlier was the PAO transcript
which indicates Mission Control told Neil before LOS that if they lost

...Lookit the bottom of this one:
http://mars.lyle.org/titan/contrast/triplet.13.jpg
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...ANd here I thought it was CGI:
http://www.customreplicas.com/Gemini.htm
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...Just to show Herb why lawsuits should only be allowed for *serious*
issues:
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Jan 6, 7:33 AM EST

I was reading the SpaceX Fultron rocket reliability study
(http://www.spacex.com/FutronDesignReliability.pdf)
Table 1 (Lauch failures by subsystem root cause of US built
expendable vehicles 1984-2004) has one interesting entry:

Guys, I WISH I could post part of this transcript from Apollo 7, but
for some reason it's not copy/pasting as easily as the Gemini 8
transcript, and I'm NOT going to put up all 1400 pages!  But, talk
about TANTRUMS!  Good grief, I always knew men were babies when it came

This is a nice article about a pair of old space scientists working on the
Huygens instruments.
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/0113titan13.html
But it drops in this fascinating paragraph: "They worked the earliest

I went to a space "chat" this evening, with mostly a new crowd, and
what they had to say would make the 17 men and women who have lost
their lives in the AMERICAN space program shake their heads in disgust.
I heard all about how it's not cost effective to send astronauts back

On Terraserver I've found what remains of the Douglas Aircraft -
Sacramento Saturn SIV-B static test facility.
This is a picture of one of the SIV-B test stands when it was active.
http://www.cloudster.com/RealHardware/SIVBStage/Sacramento3/sac29.jpg

Hi everybody, Im working on project gemini for my web site and I found this
pictures of Titan 2 launcher display at
http://www.capcomespace.net/dossiers/espace_US/gemini/a_venir.htm
Who can tell me what is this facility ? Its Martin facility, Aerojet

...What's next? The Sharks rising up out of the ocean and suing
Spielberg?
http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/01/12/lawyer.jokes.arrest.ap/index.html
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61760-2005Jan9.html
washingtonpost.com
Retro Rocket
The Saturn V Took America to the Moon. Now It's Bringing Us to the Museum.

Found this whilst looking for something else; don't have a copy of the
article, just the abstract (which looks, um, strangely translated). But
it looks interesting...
'RCHX-1-STORM' first Slovenian meteorological rocket program

"Arianespace will launch the Skynet military satcoms"
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0501/04arianespace/