Space Forum / Space History / February 2005

After 18 years and counting, I'm still waiting for the first real good look
at the wreckage, IN PARTICULAR, the crew capsule.  I hear its buried deep.
I shouldn't really have to justify my wanting to know this information.  I
paid my share of this project and I am entitled to have ...

A part of space history dodged a bullet this morning...
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/3013830
Outpost, a longtime NASA tavern, damaged by fire
By THAYER EVANS

[x-posting note: The proper group for this question somewhat depends
on its answer ;-)]
Hi,
In September 2004, the X-37 unmanned reusable spacecraft program was

For those not paying close attention to recent launches, the Atlas III
launch yesterday marked the end of an era:  that was the very last
balloon-tank Atlas, the last example of the design approach promoted
(against strenuous resistance) by Convair's Karel Bossart half a century

Whoa. Closer than we think? Could global warming actually be our friend?
Terraforming on the Goldin Plan?
American Geophysical Union via Spaceflight Now:
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0502/07mars/

http://www.planet3earth.co.uk/Orion_2_cargoplane.htm
...Cue Pat!
                OM

Why Carpenter did not fly in Gemini and Apollo? Was it really Chris
Craft who clipped his wings? Was the flight director so powerful in
Nasa?
Kris Stoever writes in For Spacious Skies that after Mercury Slayton

I received a great reception here at the AIAA Aerospace Sciences Conference on
the paper  "Does Goldstone Have the Bird?"  about some of the contoversies,
mysteries, and questions still surrounding the US and Soviet space programs
from 1954-1960.  If anyone wants a copy, email me at ...

http://www.floridatoday.com/community/commstoryMAIN0112SGUSP.htm
Wonder who will be good guys and bad guys.  Intresting any way. Who is
the best actor to be Gus?
Best, IL of FI

Ozzie Davis, who played JFK- yes, *that* JFK- in "Bubba Ho-Tep", died here
in Florida.
This is a man who, even if he wore a pink tutu with a bra on his head and a
feather out of his a.s, would *still* be dignified.

http://www.craigslist.org/sby/wan/58206774.html
I'm trying to figure out if this is a scratchbuilt Gemini capsule or a
leftover boilerplate. Does anyone know about this item?

It seems to me I read somewhere that we once sent out a "package" of
information into outer space that included music. Can anybody confirm
that and give me the details or refer me to a website on that?
j in S.F.

Phobos Sample Return in 2009
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/ESA_Permanent_Mission_in_Russia/SEMIJFW4QWD_0.html
Venera-D Venus Landing in 2014
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/ESA_Permanent_Mission_in_Russia/SEM0LFW4QWD_0.html

Who was the first college graduate to orbit the Earth?

I'll be recording this as an example of bad science. It may come in
useful as a teaching aid.
Cheers
Julian