Space Forum / Space History / March 2005

Headsup:
There's a video of the Me-163 launching now in
alt.binaries.multimedia.aviation
The ME-163 Comet was an early German WW2 rocket plane.  Unfortunately it

    I've been reading T A Heppenheimer's ``Development of the Space
Shuttle, 1972-1981,'' and sharing some of the good bits with a friend
who's got a glider pilot's license.  I'd shared some of the various
ideas for a Shuttle Carrier Aircraft once NASA decided the Shuttle could

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/223809
...And no, I didn't do the voice *or* write the dialog. But Pat and I
sure should have :-)
                OM

Perhaps of some interest.
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CIRCUIT BREAKERS AND FUSES
Circuit breakers used in the command module for both Blocks I and II utilize

Fifty years ago today, Disney's "Man in Space" was
first televised.

My wife got me one of those laser crystal decorative things- you know, the
clear plastic with the bubbles inside you shine lights into.
This one has the state of Florida, with a shuttle stack taking off (floating
in the Gulf for room).

Lot of good stuff in this one, a must read.
-- rk
http://klabs.org/history/papers/low_69.pdf
Apollo Spacecraft

http://www.are-u-sure.blogspot.com <- - - all bloggers go here

...Yet another wabbit punch:
http://andrius.esu.lt/10/go2.htm
                OM

The following messages appeared on the Yahoo Space-modelers discussion
board over the past few days:
"From:  "Karon Adams" <karon@k...>
Date:  Sat Mar 5, 2005  8:41 am

...From the Doonesbury website:
http://images.ucomics.com/comics/db/2005/db050308.gif
                OM

I haven't seen Apollo 13 for a while, but AFAIR, they may be wearing
pressure suits during reentry, but did they wear helmets? What was the
standard procedure for Apollo reentry? Was the Apollo 13 reentry different
with regards to suits/helmets than the other Apollo reentries?

Just finished reading "De Havilland Blue Streak", by Charles H. Martin,
published by the BIS (recently, I think, although it carries a 2002
copyright date).  Blue Streak was Britain's IRBM, canceled as a missile
before first flight, but reincarnated as the first stage of the ...

Ray Bradbury quotes...
http://www.fallingskyhazard.com/catalog.htm
Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious
and anything self-conscious is lousy. You cannot try to do things. You

   Parts of the flight diary of Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon
   have been recovered and computer image enhancement has
   employed to read some of the pieceds.    Altogether 18
   pages handwritten were recovered, some of which were the