Space Forum / Space History / June 2005

How comforting that recent events show that Lindsay Lohan does not, as of
yet, have an excess of silicone in her diet.

Behold... the prototype Lockheed CEV, nearly finished:
http://up-ship.com/ptm/cevprototype.jpg

Easy to build and realtively cheap.
http://www.up-ship.com/ptm/CEV/lm72cev.htm

Is anyone aware of statistics showing the number of degrees awarded in
aerospace engineering over the past 40 or 50 years?
Jon

Anyone have a list of the different Luminary versions and which missions they
flew on?  Bonus for any information on versions that would have flown on 18-
20.
And available on-line listings of Luminary versions?

Certainly one of the more colorful astronauts....
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=16949
Matthew Ota

Howdy
When and where Yuri Gagarin said: I did not see God up there? Or did
he say that, or is that only space legend or Soviet atheist
propaganda?

They have a Quicktime movie up made up from pictures from Opportunity
showing the rover getting itself unstuck from the dune:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/videos/mer/060705-opportunity.mov
Whoever designed those wheels the way they did should get a medal, as

I read interviews with Jack Garman and Jay Greene. They were backroom
guidance officer and FIDO respectively during Apollo 11 landing on the
moon.
It seems, from these inteviews, that the real heroes during the 1202

Ah, anyone know a www site with all of the recent launches?  Say from Jan
2005?  I thought I had a link for that, can only find a link for upcoming NASA
launches and we want to go over what was launched recently.
Thanks in adavance ...

Were there potentially life-threatening snafus on two of Tom
Stafford's command missions (Apollo 10 & ASTP) when switches were out
of position? In lunar orbit during abort stage when the LM went wild
and crazy and on ASTP re-entry when ventilator sucked in hydrazine?

As some on this group know, I'm the author of The First Space Race, a
history of the first satellite programs.  I have been slow about
pushing this book out to reviewers.  I naively assumed that since it
was a  space book that really did break some new ground, it would

I recently came across a Russian article (well, it's in
Portuguese, but by a Russian space writer) that purports
to give a bit of new-to-me information about the
lasing of Challenger by a Soviet laser at Sary Shagan.

This link was posted a couple of days ago, but didn't seem to get much
response, possibly due to its original subject heading, so I'm taking
the liberty of re-posting it here, with the original poster's
permission. This site really *is* worth checking out:

The question arose, in ten million years (or whatever) time, after
humans have died out and a new technologically-advanced species
arisen, would there be any evidence of our existence on (or near)
the planet?