Space Forum / Space History / April 2005

Von Braun Mars expeditions and other goodies:
http://www.astronautix.com/index.html

Hi Folks, I'm new to this Forum and in browsing around, enjoying you
comments and interest in our (U.S.) space program, I came across thi
post in reference to my autobiography:
<<August 28, 03 11:45 a.m.

Which, amazingly and rarely enough, is actually on-topic for this newsgroup.
I've been rereading Milt Thompson's "Flying Without Wings", about the
lifting body program at Dryden, and he writes about the waning days of
the X-20 Dyna-Soar program (which he blames mainly on ...

Hi,
Looking for the von Braun quote on the need to monitor contractor quality,
believe it had something to do with a sock.  Anyways, it's around here
somewhere ....

http://www.lunar-research-institute.org/lunar_prospector_book.htm
Apparently, the author doesn't seem too pleased with the performance of
NASA over the last few years.

I think I recall years ago seeing a film/video segment from one of the later
Apollo missions taken by a camera mounted on the rover while it was in
motion. The effect was essentially to give you an idea of what it looked and
felt like to drive the rover, i.e. looking forward with ...

Dale Reed, the driving force behind the lifting bodies and a number of
other concepts, passed away last week.
Mary

2005-03-28 12:55     * PROBE INTO GAGARIN'S DEATH MAY RESUME
MOSCOW, March 28 (RIA Novosti) - Former member of the State Institute of
Exploitation and Repairs of Air Force Aviation Equipment Igor Kuznetsov is
demanding the investigation into the deaths of the first cosmonaut Yury

Dear God, what next? :-)
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/rocketscience-05o.html

I keep hearing that Betty Grissom campaigned to have the ill-fated AS204
re-designated "Apollo I" after the Fire; how does that explain Gus'
mission patch in:
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/a410/ap1-67-H-104.jpg ?

As it is known, the left SRB burned through the o-ring at the side facing
the ET causing the accident.  Then I started to wonder.
Would it have been possible for the o-ring to burn through on the other
side of the SRB (ie: away from the tank)?  Was it just bad luck it burned

Afternoon all.
I vaguely recognise the background in this photograph - I've probably
seen photographs taken in the same museum before. However, I'm fairly
sure it's not the NASM, and the CM isn't Columbia - can anyone verify

Somewhere on the Web, in the last few months, I saw an overhead photo
of several hundred people standing in patterns to spell "N A S A".
I've had no luck searching GRIN, NIX, and the various centers'
archives with all the keywords I can think of. Does this ring a bell

...So, is this evidence of Wencescia's worm trap?
http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/ns/9999/99997169F1.JPG
                OM

NASA posted many new PDF's on its webserver on 3-29-2005. There are
14,000+ new
publications listed. Many are available in PDF format.
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/index.cgi?method=updates