Space Forum / Space History / July 2005

I revised this a couple of days ago, from something  I wrote a while
back...  How sad, that in just the last day, another setback...
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It's exhilirating that the shuttle has returned to orbit, but those of

Driving in to work today, I was thinking about the best scenes or episodes
Scotty was in.  Lots of good ones, perhaps the best was when he played chicken
driving the Enterprise when in command.  Perhaps the most "engineer's
engineer" scene was when he was confined to quarters and ...

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0507/29planet/

Does anyone know where to find images of worn and damaged Apollo era
spacesuit gloves?  I remember seeing at least one image of such damage,
but can't seem to find it now in any of the obvious places online.
--Chris Vancil

Hey all,
    I thought I would give everyone a heads up on a new product that
my studio just released. They are replicas of the "nose art" on a
Mercury Capsule.

A few years ago, I mentioned a dye transfer photographer named Ctein.
Dye transfer is an old process of creating a full color photograph. It
splits the original image into three parts, one for each of the printing
primary colors. The artist can control each of the three parts

An old dispute has flared up again regarding the
geographical location of pads 39 A & B, at KSC.
Is there any OFFICIAL decree about whether they are
on what is officially called 'Cape Canaveral' or rather

Any word?

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=17518
                OM

Man, I'd sure hate to have been the capcom who had to call _that_ news up
to 'em.
But, anyway...when Atlantis finally gets off the pad some months or so
from now, will that make it the "Return To Return To Flight"?

I'm interested in the equipment used during Gemini for rendevous without
the radar working. I understand that one of the astronauts used a
modified sextant and slide rules to navigate to a docking. Is the
official NASA documentation of these procedures available? Thanks,

http://www.up-ship.com/Book/bomproj.htm
Woo! Please note the Delta Clipper the way it was meant to be.

NASA halts shuttle flights over tank foam problem
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&e=1&u=/nm/20050728/ts_nm/space_shu
ttle_dc
By Irene Klotz
HOUSTON (Reuters) -

I've read many times over the years that the chines being cut back on
the YF-12A reduced the directionaly stability of the Blackbird to the
point that it required the three ventrals.  To me that doesn't seem to
make sense since the chines are oriented in the horizontal plane.

JOLOGICON DECIDED THAT HE DOES *NOT* WANT TO MAKE ANY MORE HUMANS
SUFFER.
FROM JULY 26 ON, A "WAVE OF PEACE" STARTS. TERRORIST ATTACKS WILL BE
REDUCED DRAMATICALLY, THERE'LL BE NO MORE TSUNAMIS.