Space Forum / Space History / May 2005

Store Wars......
Food for thought.
http://www.storewars.org/flash/index.html
;-)

On Monday 30th May, at 8pm BST, BBC Radio 4 will broadcast episode
three of 'The Things We Forgot to Remember'. This deals with the Apollo
8 mission, and features (among other people) Jim Lovell and David
Scott.

In case they run out of more and more obscure Greek or Roman mythological
figures, and if any JPL folks are lurking here -- may I suggest, as a name
for the newly-discovered moon in Saturn, "Cowabunga". I figured this was
only appropriate as it's the "wavemaking moon".

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Most of the specimens pictured below are now on display
at an exhibit in Berlin, Germany, and will be until the end of

A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Moon
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/24may_lola.htm?list109700
I found this one interesting.

Some other space junkies and I were discussing the recent thread about the
amount of space available inside various spacecraft and the following
questions came up about Gemini:
- Were the astronauts in their suits for the whole flight, or were they able

I found this interesting.
-- rk
VOYAGER SPACECRAFT ENTERS SOLAR SYSTEM'S FINAL FRONTIER
Dolores Beasley

See the posting at
<http://groups-beta.google.com/group/sci.space.news/msg/b67998f41f125b14>
or JPL's copy at
<http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2005-084>.

http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/050520_iss_abandon.html
Too bad it's not called "Hope".

Doing my assigned reading, Murray and Cox, pp. 322-323 (finally read this
excellent book):
  If C' were a success, it would not add much to his experience at
  NASA; if it were a failure, he would not only be the obvious

Hi, where are located for any flight Apollo the training geological field ?

Venus has been alive in more ways than merely geologically young, with
at least something having been a touch more robust than mere microbes
and diatoms. If nothing else, ET's made good usage of Venus, as perhaps
should we.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/18/national/18crash.html?
(need to register, use www.bugmenot.com)
Since this was discussed here before thought I'd bring it up again.
One interesting comment on page 5:

Just remembered this...
A while ago, I was poking around in the Library of Congress authority
records [1], and ended up throwing in the first author name I saw as a
way of playing with the search function. Since I had slrn open at the