Space Forum / Space History / April 2005

Great Wall visible in space photo
By Francis Markus
BBC News, Shanghai  
A photograph taken from space appears to confirm that China's Great Wall

I was a NASA employee at KSC during the Gemini and Apollo programs.  Is
there any kind of alumni organization?
I worked at the Central Instrumentation Facility in Karl Sendler's
organization doing telemetry.  

From SpaceRef.com, via NASA Watch:
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=16280
This reads like the first step in abandoning the ISS program; a lot of
the science mission (small that it is at the moment) is apparently

Don't you wish you could be paid $110 million to retire like NASA's DART
Mission?  And if successful it was only supposed to last twenty-four hours
before expending battery life and fuel?  For $110 million it better last
longer than that.

At first I thought "finally" and then I realized it was April Fool's.
. .
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/rocketscience-05o.html

In "This New Ocean," the remains of MA-1 were described as being "small
portions of the capsule, the adapter-ring, and the booster."
Where are these remains now? The Garber facility? Is it possible to see
them?

Doing my assigned reading, I found some more documents that have been
published on-line.  I'll just list title and url's here; abstracts in ASCII
text available on the following page, although it looks like things might have
to be reorganized (or organized) there.

I've posted a very large (6750X2525 pixels) drawing of the Sea Dragon
HLLV on my site. This vehicle was to be bigger in diameter than some
launch vehicles are *long*.
http://www.up-ship.com/apr/extraspace.htm

My other message hasn't posted yet; will someone PLEASE put me out of
my misery?  In continuing to search for Scott's allegation re:
Schirra, I am reading more infantile nonsense than I can bear;
unfortunately, some (OK, a lot) of it comes from Scott.

Hallo everyone
in a contemporary Italian magazine I have found a statement by Abe
Silverstein on Pioneer 5 stating that the spacecraft would transmit data
for "several tens of years". Anybody in the group knows the original

Finally some good data on the Soviet Spiral Spaceplane and it's "50/50"
hypersonic carrier aircraft, complete with cutaways of the pilot's
escape capsule and a reconnaissance camera system (the green tubular
thing behind the cockpit) and the fighter version with six

Just posted some more pics on the SR 71 and D 21...fuselage detail,
landing gear J85 insulation etc see http://greenmarble.blogspot.com  If
anybody knows what the missing tip of the aft end of the fuselage
(pictured) is do tell and leave a comment.  Enjoy  Rich

WHAT IS JUMPS YOU I.Q 100%

nerualnetwork is 100% imagination then all logic and no-logic ideas can
be frommed anything can be add to something and taken away becuase

What ever happened to Convair? They made Atlases, S IV-stages etc.
Ciaio, IL of FI

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