Space Forum / Space History / July 2005

...for those of you looking befuddled, it's the enormous boulder Schmitt
got photographed with on Apollo 17. It also seems to be called Turning
Point Rock, in some sources.
http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/lores/S73-22871.jpg

    Between Seagrams (of Canada) and Jim Beam (of the USA).
    A LOX/alcohol rocket has an exhaust velocity of up to 3.3
km/ (In practice it's lower but there doesn't seem to have been a lot
of interest in LOX/Alochol rockets). Ignoring things like air resistance,

Is anyone aware of recent or past research for an alternative to
traditional re-entry?  Consider a typical re-entry scenario.  Now, what
if the vehicle is traveling at orbital velocity and propulsion is used
to decelerate and *maintain* altitude (neither increasing nor

The greatest engineer of the Apollo era has gone on to eternal orbit.
James Doohan, 'Scotty', died this morning.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/07/20/obit.doohan.ap/index.html
Dammit.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5987887709
&category=1194&rd=1
Jim Davis

On the Gemini ships, what did they use for OAMS and RCS thruster fuel?
I think the Mercury spacecraft used hydrogen peroxide across a silver
screen in the combustion chamber. Did they go to hydrazine with
Gemini?

From Robert Law, over at Yahoo Group's Inside_KSC,
(inside_ksc@yahoogroups.com), here's an interesting look at the history
of England's coverage of America's space program....  Jim Burns
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So a window cover came off and damaged tiles on the OMS pod- that's no
reason to scrub the launch, is it?:
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts114/050712omspod/
Pat

Listed below are NASA PDF english translations of early Soviet space
press releases and reports from 1959 through 1967:
Astronautics information - Lunik III. Soviet news coverage of the
launching of the third soviet cosmic rocket, october 4-30, 1959

In 1961 Yuri Gagarin (after his first spaceflight) proudly walked with his
father and mother through the streets in Moscow.
Have I ever seen such a thing in the USA?
Please see the picture on this site: www.servatius.blogspot.com 

X-URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/13/national/13baker.html?pagewanted=print
July 13, 2005
J. G. Baker, Designer of High-Altitude Camera Lenses, Dies at 90
By JEREMY PEARCE

While I was digging around for how long it took Apollo 11 to get from
lift-off to Lunar orbit, I ran across a description of Neil Armstrong
viewing a Transit Lunar Phenomena (TLP) near the crater Aristarchus that
was originally spotted and confirmed by Earthly observers.

Finally made it to the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center.  What an
incredible place. Had alway heard it was a world class museum, and of course
they're known notable spacecraft restorations such as Liberty Bell 7, but
south central Kansas always seemed a bit off the beaten path ...

if the scale were such that the scene is few feet across.  Taking the
40m/pixel number from the Enceladus flyby map page, the scene is more
like 30 km across.  Which would make the biggest rocks / boulders / ice
blocks some 100's of meters wide.  The scale is probably off, as the

Looking at some NASA websites, it seems NASA completely ignores one of
their greatest accomplishments when 40 years ago, Mariner IV sent back
the first close-up photos of Mars.
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/imgcat/html/mission_page/MR_Mariner_4_page1.html