General - historical manned and unmanned space flight programs

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First visit to KFC; what to see???	30 Sep 2005 22:45 GMT	33
A business trip takes me tomorrow to south Florida for two weeks. I have a weekend available in-between. I'm a space buff, so I thought a day trip from Fort Lauderdale would be a drive north to Cape Canaveral. Any suggestions on what should be the first priority for such a trip?
PING: David Sander	30 Sep 2005 18:55 GMT	1
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Magnificent Desolation: The Movie	29 Sep 2005 23:20 GMT	19
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 14:41:35 -0400 Message-ID: <MPG.1d9f67c1fb1dccd0989dae@news.rcn.com> X-Newsreader: MicroPlanet Gravity v2.50 I'm just back from seeing the newest IMAX 3-D movie, Tom Hank's
Problems with Problems with the Orion Spacecraft #1.	29 Sep 2005 15:01 GMT	4
Problems with Problems with the Orion Spacecraft #1. http://www.alternatehistory.com/gateway/essays/OrionProblems.html http://spacebombardment.blogspot.com/2005/09/problems-with-problems-with-orion.html A famous essay claims there are problems with the Orion craft in AH,
Two Clarke Items	29 Sep 2005 06:53 GMT	4
I think this is sufficiently on-topic stuff. Apologies if I'm wrong, but here are two Arthur C. Clarke-related bits of news: 1) He has a short article on space elevators in _The Times_ of 24 September (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1072-1794500,00.html
Space Marines	28 Sep 2005 05:44 GMT	100
One, two, three, hup!: "Here they come to save the day! Space Marines are on the way! To make the bad guys pay!
INTELLIGENT DESIGN No Match for Evolution Without KEY EVIDENCE	27 Sep 2005 09:56 GMT	1
< < All of these specimens of petrified human remains discovered between anthracite veins -- bones, teeth
LSAM and an unmanned CEV in lunar orbit?	27 Sep 2005 01:30 GMT	36
Quoting from http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=1057 : "Along with a CEV that carried the flight crew and their support equipment and propulsion system package, a Lunar Surface Access Module (LSAM) which was designed to undock from the CEV and take the entire
Astronaut assisted automatic rendezvous ?	26 Sep 2005 17:00 GMT	2
In the thread "LSAM and an unmanned CEV in lunar orbit?" In article <jYOKe.114451$gL1.62...@tornado.texas.rr.com>, John Whisenhunt <whi...@mindspring.com> wrote: >...Can the the already mentioned advantage of having a piloted
PING Pat: Shoggoth on the Roof?	26 Sep 2005 01:59 GMT	1
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CEV and It's Missions	26 Sep 2005 00:22 GMT	24
Nasa Administrator Griffin has said that the CEV will be able to support missions to the ISS and Hubble...Other than transporting crew, where will parts, consumables and other bulky items currently carried by the Shuttle, be carried by the CEV ??
What is that antenna on the LM?	25 Sep 2005 23:59 GMT	3
I have a desktop background of the Apollo 9 shot taken by Rusty Schweikart of Dave Scott standing in the hatch of the CM. In the foreground, on the front panel between the two triangular LM windows, is a helical protrusion of "ribbon" wrapped around a short post. The
What were the 'flashes' and 'bogies' during the apollo missions?	25 Sep 2005 17:10 GMT	1
I have seen some of the videos and listened to some radio comms on the apollo missions on the moon and a few times austronauts said they saw 'flashes' at a distance on the surface. On a couple of occasions it sounded like one astronaut was reporting the position of the sighting to ...
Shuttle going bye-bye?	25 Sep 2005 05:21 GMT	6
From NASA Watch: http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/2005/09/is_omb_consider.html "Is OMB Considering Shuttle Termination? Editor's 19 Sep note: David Radzanowski at OMB issued an action to NASA
purification of water in space	24 Sep 2005 00:29 GMT	7
reverse osmosis and ozonisation? why not vacuum distillation/fractionation and Solar UV. both of which are readily available (vacuum and UV that is) Jeeez