Space Forum / Space History / January 2005

Wonder what 60000 looks like?
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gareth.slee/tsunami/asia.htm
Gareth
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Since you folks LOVE to branch off onto inane topics, here's a new
thread:  If you would not share your "satires" regarding Columbia with
an astronaut's spouse, children, and/or parents...KEEP IT OUT OF HERE!
There ARE family members who come in here and read, you self-centered

Donald Rumsfeld - Space Trivia - January 10, 1966

Astronautics and Aeronautics, 1966, page 22
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19670029479_1967029479.pdf

We're going to KSC soon.  Back in my day (the late 60s) the standard
tour took you into Mercury Control.  At first the lights were out,
then they turn on all of the lights as they would be during a flight.
It was my favorite part of the tour.  I know that isn't in the

Been reading a lot about this. Although the Soviets won the Space race
up to the Moon shots I wonder whether they did so on a wing and a
prayer.
Seems they where largely lucky they never had more disasters than they

I've been deleting the offers of this letter left and right until a
friend locally told me that he was going to participate because a
friend of his had made about 5000 within a couple of weeks with this
letter...I stopped turning up my nose at this idea and applied myself

...I'm watching some unknown Pee-BS video on the Apollo program(*),
and Pete Conrad's telling this story about how he EVAd to the stuck
Skylab solar panel, dislodged it, and got shot out "a.s over
teakettle". Is there any footage of Pete tumbling like this?

It may be a trick of the lighting, but the raw Iapetus images show a
long solitary linear ridge (or maybe its the visible wall of a long
rift) that looks the moon has grown a backbone.
Happy New Year!

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7.1.2.9 Control system problem. - At approximately 7 hours g.e.t., the two
spacecraft were configured for the platform-parallelism test, which was to
have provided a comparison of the spacecraft and GATV attitude reference
systems. The GATV Attitude Control System (ACS) was ...

JPL/Caltech Float Set to Launch on Rose Parade Mission
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2004/dec/HQ_04409_jplcaltech_float.html
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JPL/Caltech Float Set to Launch on Rose Parade Mission

With previous missions sent out like voyager etc. How far are they away from
Black holes and what would be the possibility of ever visiting one to do
experiments on.
Burt

Sometime back, I suggested that we'd never see memory crystals of the type
shown on Babylon 5. I received a number of strongly worded messages about
technical feasability. I finally made it clear that it wasn't the techical
side that was impossible, it was the human factors that ...

Sorry about the OT post, but the fate of the "stone-age" peoples in the path of
the tsunami has been on my mind. Perhaps on other's here too. This is
encouraging-
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/south_asia/4144405.stm

What happened to John Beaderstadt? I haven't seen anything from him since
last August.
DK