Space Forum / Space History / June 2005

Ran across this looking for something else entirely:
"Birth, Life and Death of the Saturn Launch Vehicles", H.H. Koelle
http://vulcain.fb12.tu-berlin.de/Raumfahrzeugtechnik/ILR-Mitteilungen/Archive/IL
R351.pdf
...in English, don't worry. Dated 2001, but parts read as though they

The Planetary Society gets yet another taste of how challenging
spaceflight can be. Now they have lost two spacecraft in a row. But
history teaches us of teething problems with other organizations in
early spaceflight efforts. JPL's Ranger series comes to mind.

"The partnership: A history of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project" -
NASA-SP-4209
that NASA has online in HTML format:
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4209/toc.htm

LOR? EOR? Direct Ascent? Something else?

I'm finally getting to Cocoa Beach and I'll be there for RTF. Looks
like I'm consigned to viewing the launch from Titusville though as I
couldn't get any passes for KSC. Anyway, I'm asking the group if any
knows any good space book store / hobby shop / junk shop in the area.

Anyone see the National Geographic documentary on Gemini 8? Lots of
interview footage with Chris Craft, David Scott and some of the
controllers and downlink managers. Pretty hairy time they had. It was
a full hour show and went into fairly fine detail on the mission.

I'm watching The Day the Earth Stood Still (from the era when Movies were
Movies and no attempt was made to make toys).
Imagine, Michael Rennie walking down the ramp, "Away put your weapons..."

What did you think of the book?
Respondents are kindly requested to have actually read the book prior
to posting a reply. (smiling while ducking to avoid the incoming
flames).

Ran across this in the archives, and thought people might like to see
it...
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Here is another of those "how come" questions.   What is the reason for
the two point suspension used to attach the main recovery parachute to
the Gemini spacecraft?  I have googled and found descriptions of the
system but no rationale for this apparent added complexity.

According to:
"http://www.katu.com/stories/77971.html"
The Evergreen Aviation Museum in McMinnville, Oregon
(home of the Hughes "Spruce Goose") will display

Til efteråret kommer der en ny IMAX/OMNIMAX-film:
Magnificent Desolation
Walking on the Moon 3D
Se trailer (2 MB QuickTime):

In the course of some other discussion, Alexander Mikhailov, an
acquaintance of mine, sent me this (and has given permission to post it
here):
Boris Chertok, a 90+ yr old Korolev's fellow, has

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/space/06/21/russia.cosmos.reut/index.html
...According to the latest from Bruce Murray, it appears that signals
are being received, the probe appears to be functioning, but is
believed to be in a lower orbit than planned. Actual orbital data

Re the debate about whether it's proper to call Cosmos-1 'the first solar
sail spacecraft'....
http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/2005/06/earths_first_so.html
Friedman respons to Cowing: "JAXA conducted a deployment test on a