Space Forum / Space History / August 2005

An e-pal of mine bravely smuggled some of this back from australia and mailed
it to me in a *JUST* too big a box for my mailbox, forcing me to poke a hole
and pull like a bastard.  I have never before today actually encountered this
material.  It's a small sample, 40 g (they use ...

Stumbled on this interesting photo from 1965- this was the KIWI TNT
(Transient nuclear Test) test; a KIWI nuclear rocket test reactor was
purposely given a runaway nuclear reaction to see what its failure would
result in: http://www.wps.com/archives/wxvax7.esa.lanl ...

There's some questions lingering in my mind where I just can't find the
answers, so I'm finally resorting to asking the knowledgeable guys
around here ...
    1. When tanking LH2 (let's say in a S-II stage), how is the air

ESA News
http://www.esa.int
17 Aug 2005
Cos-B: 30 Years On

http://www.starshipmodeler.com/miam.cfm
...Boy, will his ego be inflated for a month or what? ;-P
                OM

http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/08/07/jennings.obit/index.html
...On behalf of those who fought the revisionists' efforts to paint
the Enola Gay, her crew, and the decision to nuke the Japanese into
surrendering as something more deplorable than the Holocaust, I

Krikalev has now spent more than two years of his life
orbiting Earth.
"Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev Tuesday set a record
for the most days spent in space, clocking almost 748 days

Damon Hill Wrote:

The world shook for 120 seconds today. Quite impressive, once again.

No announced glitches during the final countdown, or in boost
phase, and the pics from the ET Cam were spectacular. You could
well see the speed of the thing, and the curve of the Earth,
from that cam. All the way to ET-Jett.

A couple of years ago ssh got rather enthused over the computer game
/Buzz Aldrin's Race Into Space/, an adaptation of the old board game
"Liftoff!"
I just got pointed to this:

Just completed 2 new Apollo panoramas
First up is Neil Armstrong at the MESA, the only still photograph of
Neil on the lunar surface.
http://moonpans.com/a11neilmesa.htm

http://www.newsday.com/news/columnists/ny-oppin114378715aug11,0,4095474.colu
mn?coll=ny-news-columnists
"And, of course, once the U.S. mobilized, it quickly overtook
the Soviets in the "space race." Indeed, even before Americans

We frequently see quoted prices for Soyuz, Proton and Zenit launches
that are a lot lower than those for US ELVs or Arianespace. Often
those prices are cited as proof that over-all $/kg to orbit could and
should be a lot lower, were it not for [insert your favorite critique

August 15, 2005
Col. Joseph Rogers, 81, Aviator Who Holds World Speed Record, Dies
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HEALDSBURG, Calif., Aug. 14 (AP) - Col. Joseph Rogers, a renowned aviator who flew