Space Forum / Space History / February 2005

Whoa, now, here's a _very_ cool one:
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/a410/ap7-S68-33750.jpg
So, just how many of those regular old group shots of the crew posing at
the hatch looking at a photographer _outside_ the CM did they shoot before

I'm presently burning all my videos onto DVD. What to do with the
originals? I would like to trade them for other Shuttle videos. I am
looking for other TV coverage of these missions.
If you have anything to trade with and are interested, let me know

From apolloarchive.com,
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/a410/ap7-67-HC-297.jpg
Now, we all know that all the early manned flights had planned to use
those modified Gemini (G4C?) suits, but what's the deal with those

http://apolloera.blogspot.com/
Project Mercury, Project Gemini, Project Apollo. Manned Space Flight
from 1961 until 1972.

I was surprised to find the high divorce rate among the first three
groups of astronauts. Billed as "all-American heroes", their marriages
sure bit the dust mighty often. Even ol Neil and Jan split in the
early nineties. Seems that the crew of Gemini 7 stayed the course for

In tidying up I just found an old 45 single.
It is titled 'Americas First Man In Orbit'.
Place: Pad 14 Cape Canaveral
Date February 20, 1962

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                     26
February 2005
SCI-FI AUTHOR'S PREDICTION OF MARS ICE FIELD COMES TRUE
Cape Canaveral, FL -- In an eerie case of fact imitating fiction, a key

I'm in a process of finishing my Ph.D. thesis about Mars drilling
instrument design. In a literature part of my thesis I compare
different old drill machines that have flown or existed in concept
level. There have been several drills in space, such as the Luna,

A friend asked:
//Was the first song heard from outer space "Fly Me To The Moon"//
I think the first music was the 'Internationale', played by a Russian moon
probe...

When getting information about the old-time planetary programs, I got
to wondering: if Mariner 3 had been able to carry out it's mission,
what part of Mars would it have photographed? Or were the targets
picked when the probes were close to the planet?

    Whilst reading a bit from ``Computers in Spaceflight: The NASA
Experience,'' by James E Tomayko, I came across the mtion that the
Gemini Digital Computer was ``the first use of core memory with a
nondestructive readout'' --

I came across somebody who says they were educated in a "space kids" school
in the late '50s.  Is this a known real program?  It sounds like the
program concentrated on psychic abilities, remote viewing etc.
These were wacky times with stories coming out of the fUSSR about people

http://klabs.org/home_page/images/S65-63220.jpg
No particular reason, just ran into this one and thought it was a nice shot.  
And on-topic!!

Ok kids, warm up your CD burners, it's time to give the RIAA another
scare. ;-)
Here are some EVA / spacesuit related PDF documents that can be found
on the NASA NTRS and other servers:

what happened to the white kids after the mom died?