Space Forum / Space History / September 2005

I've found a good source for mission patches for all of the American
manned missions, but I'd like some from the various unmanned programs.
Which ones have had the patches, and are there any online sources for
good images? It seems like the practice started in the early 70s-

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Last night, I met an EE who worked on ground support for Boeing from
1966-1970.  Much of his work was at the base of the launch structure.
He mentioned how "all for one and one for all" was the attitude...until
T-6 weeks or so, and THEN it was always "us vs them" between the

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cambridgeshire/4255806.stm
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I haven't seen much to-date in the way of international participation
mentioned in the CEV Return-to-Moon program. I'd really like to see someone
like Chris Hadfield or Julie Payette stepping off a Lunar Lander.
"That's one small step for a Canuck...one giant leap, etc, etc..."... ...

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Katrina might just change the financial picture.  Its going to cost
billions and billions (God bless Carl Sagan) to restore tens of thousands
of shacks to their former glory.  And if the President's government keeps
handing out debit cards for Gucci bags, even billions and billions ...

Want to see something cool? Would a movie from the Spirit rover of the
whirling moons of Barsoom passing through the Pleiades do the trick?
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA06340
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/archive/PIA06340.gif

Okay, it's fairly off-the-wall... but who knows?:
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000593AE-704B-1151-B57F83414B7F0000
Basically, you use the microwaves from the solar power satellite to heat
the air and change its track.

The new CEV concept calls for a heatshield that is released prior to
landing....Doesn't this represent a single point of failure (Criticality 1)
item with the potential for an early and fatal release of the shield on
re-entry ??...Any one remember Glenn's Mercury flight and the ...

Did the Voskhod ship have an airlock? I seem to recall hear that Alexi
Leonov had to use an airlock for the first EVA. Did that have anything
to do with his nearly not getting back in until he lowered the
pressure in his suit?

Ten or twenty years from now, how do you think history will view Sean O'Keefe
as NASA Administrator?

What was the sound environment like inside the various space vehicles? For
later ships like the Shuttle, I imagine it sounds a lot like my office- just
a bunch of fans. The Mercury's, would seem to me to be the quietest, just
because of their simplicity, if nothing else.