Space Forum / Space History / August 2005

Looks like the Shuttle is grounded again..
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050728/ap_on_sc/space_shuttle;_ylt=AgG0Ljn5MSTbDvFe
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"PACE CENTER, Houston -
NASA grounded future shuttle flights Wednesday because a big chunk of

The Biggest Scientific Discovery Of All Time
In a day with the numbers 1 and 2...
The Revelation shall be announced to the world...
Mankind will be perplexed at this shocking announcement.

Here's a document from the NASA Marshall Spaceflight Center in 1962.
It reports on early cooperation among European nations in space
exploration. There are some nice diagrams in this document of the Blue
Streak rocket and its engines.

I'm modeling a Viking lander at the moment, but it is not clear to me how
the Surface Sampler Assembly boom changes from it's flattended (wound up)
state into it's free (extended) state. I know it has got something to do
with heat.

Maybe I'm being a pedant, but all these AP stories about the cleaning
of the tile gap fillers sound a bit over-the-top. Lines like this irk
me:
"On Wednesday, Discovery astronaut Stephen Robinson removed two

If anyone's interested I heard from an Air Force contact that the tower at
complex 13 will be demolished next Saturday.  Depending on how close I get
to be, if I get any decent pictures I'll post them somewhere.

Those of you who can receive digital channel BBC 4 - tomorrow, 06 August
19:00 The Sky at Night
19:35 Hubble Telescope
20:35 Invaders from Mars  [1953 classis sci-fi]

11:44 PM  Pacific
Did I just here cap com is Brian Lunny. Any relation to FD Glynn Lunney.
No bets on spelling : 0

NASA TV just showed launch-to-splashdown footage from the cameras
mounted in the forward frustrums of both the left and right SRBs, about
14 minutes of footage. This was, IMO, the COOLEST FOOTAGE EVER. Not
least because they both had full *sound*.  Those SRB's really scream

This ET interstellar UFO Park-n-Ride tarmac has been just sitting there
in plain sight, as situated right up next to a fairly substantial
township that seems to have it's fair share of nearby reservoirs,
multiple high-rise structures, somewhat interesting roadbed and/or

IF NASA finalizes the decision to use a modified Shuttle solid booster (24
ton requirement) for the Crew Exploration Vehicle, or CEV -- instead of a
derivative of the current Atlas V or Delta 4 boosters -- would SLC40 be the
logical launch facility to "retrofit" for such ...

It's looking good.
I find it incredible they didn't think of this before.
See
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/s.slee/durexcovery.htm

I caught the last few seconds of what appeared to be a promo for some
space documentary on MSNBC (I think) that was supposed to be about
Mercury, Gemini and Apollo. Anyone know anything about that? MSNBC's
program schedule on their website is totally useless for finding

Wanna know what is God's Most Incredible Power?
This article comes from God (Jologicon)'s website..
The Title of the article is:
"God's Most Incredible Power: _______"

...in a killfile, will there still be a ng?
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