Space Forum / Space History / March 2005

MSNBC (Oberg): Missing: One Russian spy satellite
Advanced 'eye in the sky' lost after descent to Earth
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6975674/
By James Oberg, NBC News space analyst

If you people care to go back and do some research, you will learn
that you have been mislead, by someone who forged Alan Erskine, and
posted a fake message, a lie.
Check headers, and learn to spot the fakes.

Just imagine scientists figured out the technology of the Roswell UFO
which crashed in the 40s.
Do you think we would have colonies on Mars and Venus today with
faster-than-light spacetravel ?

I tend to only lurk here, but while digging around for information on the
Apollo era tracking station on Ascension Island, I came across pictures
that others might find interesting.
http://www.scouts.org.ac/nasa1.htm

I'm a time traveller from the future and I must tell you that the
Democratic Party won't survive the year 2015. It will outlawed and
banned nationwide and all Democrats will be sent to the newly created
mines on Mars to work for their corporate Republicans masters.

We apologize if this is a duplicate email.
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We've been having an ongoing debate here over the past few years
regarding the placement of the "Vizor" optical orientation device in the
Voskhod 2 spacecraft; normally the Vizor would have been installed in
the hatch that is 180 degrees opposite of the entry hatch of the

<http://www.space.com/astronotes/astronotes.html>
"The NASA History Office in Washington, D.C. is on the prowl for an
editor and translator services to dive into the diaries of two key
Soviet space officials.

When the crew jettisoned the lunar module 'lifeboat' prior to rentry what
happened to it? Did it follow the re-entry trajectory and burn up or did it
'bounce' off the atmosphere and end up in an independent orbit? If the
latter, is it still tracked?

Hot off the presses:
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7089

There seems to be some question as to whether Lick really did acquire the
Apollo 11 LRRR while the crew was still at Tranquility Base.  Anybody got
the straight scoop?

Now, does this --
http://161.115.184.211/teague/apollo/68-HC-642.jpg
-- look almost like a piece of concept art, or what?
We've seen this a bunch, but I had to include just because it's such a

Russian/Mars Odyssey The High Energy Neutron Detector HEND
http://www.iki.rssi.ru/hend/e_page5.htm
Some interesting pictures, although I wish the photos were a bit sharper.
Here are their electronics:

...I just learned that an old enemy, someone whom I've despised for
about two decades now, dropped dead last week of apparently a
coronary. An old friend who was wronged rather badly by this miserable
excuse for life - read: molestation - dropped me the info about an

On March 2 1945, Lothar Sieber was launched in a test flight of the
Bachem Natter, the first time that a human being was launched this way -
maybe with the exception of this lengendary chinese guy a few centuries
earlier.