Space Forum / Space History / May 2005

Anyone seen it yet?
How does it rate, on a scale from 1 to 42?

Just a few things I was thinking about:
1) Was there any footage of staging from the vantage point of Stage 1
of the Saturn V?  We've all seen it from the vantage point of Stage 2.
Similarly, is there footage the staging from S-IV, since we've all seen

There's a debate going on at a website about the N-1 payload
capabilities. Some guys are saying that the four N-1's launched,
assuming they successfully  flew, could not  inject an L-3 payload
toward a lunar landing. True or false?

Is there an Apollo CM or exact replica somewhere that one can actually
climb into? Without being a close friend of the museum curator or
something?

There are only a few Proton-Ks remaining (www.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru).
So when they run out what will the Russian military do?
They kept site 81 (platforms 23 and 24) so they have secure access to
space whilst site 200 (platform 39 and 40 - baiterek) is under

Remember how they rolled the Shuttle out to the pad, tanked 'er up, and
the NASA PAO said everything went just wonderfully?:
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts114/050414tanking/
Well, guess what?

Is the idea completely dead that we may go back to using separate
vehicles for crew transfer and heavy lifting? Apollo-style 6-man "up &
down" craft with heavy lifting booster? Seems we had a good system
with Saturn I and V with the CSM.

I was digging around on that Russian website that has all the great
Spiral info on it, and found this page showing the BOR series of
subscale spaceplanes that were the Soviet equivalents of our X-23:
http://www.buran.ru/htm/bors.htm

See:
http://collectspace.com/ubb/Forum24/HTML/003567.html

Msnbc.com (Oberg): How to crack weird space cases
Lone sleuth uses the Internet and his wits to solve UFO mysteries
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7822879/
NASA photo     This photo from the Apollo 16 moon mission seems to show a

Marty Wallace is a well known Australian netkook, psychopath, and
coward who lives in Perth by his dead mom.  He usually stalks and
harasses the posters of Bike groups, although he is known to make
excursions into a wide range of other groups for the purposes of

According to NASA Watch, NASA Administrator Griffin
has initiated a hand-picked "Exploration Systems
Architecture Study"  team, headed by Dr. Douglas
Stanley, that will reassess the CEV program, including

I would surely like to find a source of information that would describe
exactly when the flown version of the Skylab AM and MDA (ie the "dry"
workshop versions) were given ATP, or at least when they got to PDR.
My working theory is that serious work on these modules began around

Apollo 13 Alternate Timeline #1:
Mission Control requests a cryo stir in order to increase Tank P.  Crew
performs cryo stir.  Mission Control monitors Tank P.  Mission Control
detects that Tank P is increasing above normal.  Mission Control

IEEE SPECTRUM magazine: Apollo 13, We Have a Solution
Rather than hurried improvisation, saving the crew of Apollo 13 took years
of preparation
By Stephen Cass   [IEEE website has many illustrations and sidebar essays]