Space Forum / Space History / May 2005

Doing my required reading and web surfing, I ran in to a few documents that
might be of some interest to those of you with absolutely nothing better to
do.
Cheers,

http://history.msfc.nasa.gov/images/lg_history_id.jpg
OK, much of this looks familiar -- see furniture like that every day! -- but I
thought that the writing over the blackboard was interesting.

Anyone who was with NASA at the time and was a part of the mission:
How close was the Gemini 8 crew to blackout when their spacecraft
began tumbling out of control? I've never read the de-briefings of
Armstong and Scott. Just curious on how close to disaster it really

I've been recently scanning into my computer old family slides and photos,
and came across a colour transparency slide showing Neil Armstrong standing
at attention on the moon, next to the U.S. flag. This slide was one of a set
commonly distributed by subscription back in an era ...

I Love DefenseTech and Google Maps
A hitherto-unreported (or at least very, very under-reported) airstrip
at Area 51.
< http://www.defensetech.org/archives/001504.html>

A while back, I asked for recommendations on "things for a space-cadet
to see in Washington DC". I got lots of responses, and followed up on
lots of good advice.
On (off-topic) bit of advice I received: visit the National Zoo. The zoo

The Discovery Channel (USA) will be airing a two hour long program "The
Space Shuttle: Return To Flight" at 8 PM EST tonight, (Sunday, May 15).
The show will be rerun at 11 PM EST, and again at 3 PM EST on Monday.
For real fun, catch the Discovery Channel's "Alien Planet" at 9 PM ...

saw it for the first time last night, not bad at all but not great.
Martin Freeman did a great job playing Arthur. Interesting take on the
character, instead of the passive, naive idiot that Simon Jones played,
this Arthur was more of a complete coward but with less of a neurotic

Happenned to run into this shot of one of the back rooms.
  http://klabs.org/history/apollo_11_alarms/console/garman_3.jpg

http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/05/18/obit.gorshin.ap/index.html
                OM

I'll set up a page for this at some point, but for now, photos:
http://up-ship.com/ptm/CEV/pdqcev1.jpg
http://up-ship.com/ptm/CEV/pdqcev2.jpg
http://up-ship.com/ptm/CEV/pdqcev3.jpg

Does anyone know if Mr. Dolan, the creator of the Lunar Orbit
Rendezvous, is still alive and if so, if anybody would know of how to
get in touch with him?
Regards,

OK, looking for a particular picture -- von Braun examinubg a bouncing-ball
demonstration running on a breadboard of AGC4 -- not sure if it exists but
might.
5 points --> first person to identify where to find it.

GEMINI PROGRAM MISSION REPORT, GEMINI 10
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19750067644_1975067644.pdf
GEMINI 10 INERTIAL GUIDANCE SYSTEM EVALUATION AND TRAJECTORY
RECONSTRUCTION

David M. Harlan's new book "Space Systems Failures ..." due for release this
month has a cover photo of a launch failure.
Identity of this launch vehicle, mission or date?
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/dave.harland/My_Books/index.html