Space Forum / Space History / March 2005

I've been playing with Firefox recently. I like it. It is the only other
web browser that is in the same class as Opera. Some of the plug-ins are
innovative. One example is Stumble! that brings up "interesting" pages.
From one Stumble! page:

"The NASA History Division is pleased to unveil a new Web site devoted to the
90th anniversary of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the
predecessor organization to NASA.  It is online at
http://history.nasa.gov/naca/index.html on the Web and contains biographical

I apologise if I am posting this to the wrong forum but I am not sure
where else to ask this question.
Many years ago I read a (fictious but incredibly well researched)
novel called simply 'space'. It charted the space race from the final

"Nazis Run Our Space Program" -- Peace Activist Bruce Gag-Me.
Bruce Gagnon has long been known as an anti-nuke whiner at Cape Canaveral,
where his name is mispronounced 'Bruce Gag-Me'. Seems he's getting on the
call-Bushies-all-nazis meme pretty enthusiastically. And his photograph ...

2005-03-18 09:54     * RUSSIA MARKS FIRST SPACE WALK ANNIVERSARY
   MOSCOW, March 18 (RIA Novosti) - Soviet pilot-cosmonaut Alexei Leonov
performed the first space walk in history exactly 40 years ago.
   Alexei Leonov and mission commander Pavel Belyayev flew aboard the

"WASHINGTON (AP) -- How do you quench someone's thirst when there is plenty
of water, but not a drop of it is drinkable?
It's a question NASA researchers have pondered for nearly two decades, but
villagers in Iraq and tsunami victims in Asia will get a taste of their

It's been a while since I've posted a new APR Extras page. Here's a
simple one... some good scans of some Martin Nove super-boosters from
the '60's.
http://www.up-ship.com/apr/extraspace.htm

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=6951500278
Well worth having.
It goes without saying, of course, that I do not know this seller
and have no stake in his auction.

On Saturday, October 9, 2004, The University of Iowa and the UI Alumni
Association hosted a celebration to honor Professor James Van Allen and his
many accomplishments, and in recognition of his 90th birthday. The
activities included an invited lecture series and a public lecture ...

Happy anniversary, Alexsei!

Goodbye Hubble. you served us well.  The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is
doomed to reenter the earth's atmosphere on a Kamikaze mission a few years
hence.  Its fate was sealed in the FY06 budget just sent to Congress.  I can
yada yada over its history and potential and historic ...

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Author OM ....... aka (Bob Mosley III , Austin TX, USA)
keyword PLONK
group sci.space.*

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4348497.stm
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...This afternoon, I got a call that my Canon EOS 300 was back from a
week in the shop for the same problem as last August's foulup. After
picking it up, I dropped by Wal-Mart to pick up consumables. About 10
minutes in the store, I heard this page over the PA:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/books/03/17/obit.norton.ap/index.html
                OM