Space Forum / Space History / June 2005

...leave you guys alone for 30 seconds.
Good grief. Have any of you actually *looked* at this group
in the last week? It's a disaster area. Toxic waste.
Unbelievable.

Titan I rocket involved in car wreck in Titusville, Florida.
http://www.flatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050607/NEWS01/506070335/100
7/NEWS02
Rusty

I have trouble with these subjects in school, and I am not the only
one. But why do we need to know about how to find orgens in a frog or
why did america become a free countrey? Can you help me with this
question?

Vladimir Ivanoff (Robin Williams): In Moscow we fought for an inch of
freedom! Here you take it and pour sh.t all over it.  (Moscow on the Hudson)

I have come across several mentions of Neil Armstrong being an
accomplished sailplane pilot (other than X15 after engine burnout!).
Does anyone here happen to know what sailplane(s) he owned?
The subject came up in a discussion resently, and someone mentioned

I went to see Batman Begins tonight at the local IMAX Furniture Store.
Absolutely the best comic-book superhero movie ever. Even more
interesting was a preview of the upcoming movie Magnificent Desolation.
From http://tinyurl.com/3kkm6:

MOON LANDING HOAX RELIGIOUS "later that it was all a hoax"
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/FOOLED
The Vision Thing Fort Worth Star Telegram, TX - May 27, 2005 ... And in
that moment, ready to step on the moon, Buzz Aldrin described what he

OK, we know that the Apollo dudes left some reflectors on the moon, good for
bouncing laser beams off of.
Did the USSR leave any reflectors on the surface?

...Two of the actors from the Gerry Anderson live action show UFO
passed away last week, coincidentally within days of each other. Ed
Bishop - Commander Straker - died June 8th just short of his 73rd
birthday, while Michael Billington - Colonel Paul Foster - died on

I found a search page on the CIA website that allows you to search
for online reports that have been released under the Freedom of
Information Act:
http://www.foia.cia.gov/search_options.asp

Lane Smith, the actor who portrayed newsman Emmett Seaborn in the
miniseries "From Earth to the Moon", died Monday at age 69.
Jim Davis

before leaving the lunar surface the lunar backpacks were discarded ,
if the lem crew needed to do an emergancy space walk to get into the CM
what space suits or backpacks would be used

Perhaps somebody here can help me.
I have a pretty clear memory of seeing a diagram
or picture back in the 1960's of the Apollo
Service Module.  The odd feature was on the skin

http://www.thespacereview.com/article/392/1
Academic honors for a spaceflight prophet
by James Oberg
Monday, June 13, 2005

After CT brought up the question whether the Apollo 13 LOX tank
"exploded" or not I read somewhat deeper in the issue. Here on
ssh the conclusion of CTs thread was that it not realy exploded but
only had a blow out. But it seems this is still not the whole