Space Forum / Space History / October 2005

Guys. I remember from somewhere that Bach's Goldberg Variations were
put on a spacecraft once that contained a collection of the greatest
achievements of mankind. Could someone point me to a webpage that has
more information?

"Air Force was approached, it repeatedly refused to fund Orion..." -
POS
http://www.alternatehistory.com/gateway/essays/OrionProblems.html
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I've recently returned from an expedition to the Boeing Historical
Archives (my third such trip) where I managed to fianlly finish off the
bulk of my research on Boeing bomber projects. B-47's with B-52
fuselages; supersonic B-47's; the designs leading up to the B-47, -52,

Here is an interesting Venus manned flyby mission study done for NASA
in 1967.
It involves launching a Skylab type wet workshop, on a single Saturn V,
along with the CSM and an Environmental Support Module in the SLA. This

I know I have asked this question here before , but I forgot to save the
scenario in Starry Night.
Could any one tell me where is the best viewing point (or indeed any
viewpoint) on Mercury is to witness the Double Sunrise.  Also, a date when

Folks,
apparently this book has been unnoticed:
NASA: The Complete Illustrated History (Hardcover) by Buzz Aldrin
(Foreword), Michael Gorn.

http://www.sinodaily.com/news/china-05zzzzzzzzl.html
Went up at 9 pm EDT- successfully in orbit.
Pat

It's been more than six months.
Where's NASA's analysis of the DART mission partial success/partial failure?
Jeff

Those treacherous commies! Look what they've illegally back-engineered
now! (top of page):
http://en.chinabroadcast.cn/china/events/shenzhou6/index.htm
Meanwhile demonstrating the new openness of the Chinese program, they

                Russia's OPERATIONAL Starwars Defense Systems
              In February 1992, Russian President Boris Yeltsin
         proposed to the United States and the United Nations a

I know it has been discussed here in the past, but since HST's viewing
of several lunar sites, including the Apollo 15 & 17 landing sites,
made recent news I thought I'd check on this. How good would Hubble's
resolution be for the Apollo sites? I'm sure it could see the areas of

What actual numbers would I need to plug into
this encyclopedia article on NASA?
"With an annual budget of about $16 billion (OK?), NASA has xx,000 civil
service employees

Was it worth keeping the VAB, crawlers, etc built for Apollo and modifying
them for STS,? In hindsight, might it have been cheaper or more efficient to
abandon them and build new devices to assemble Shuttle stacks in some other
way, e.g. at the pad?

The Dutch opened a new satellite ground station for intercepting
satellite communications in September.
http://www2.rnw.nl/rnw/en/currentaffairs/region/netherlands/ned050907?view=Standard
"Initially, the NSO will concentrate on intercepting satellite

The last Titan 4B (B-26) flew today from Vandenberg AFB SLC 3E.
It was the 368th Titan launch since the first Titan 1 on
Feb 6, 1959.  More than 500 Titans were manufactured all told.
Here is the final Titan record.  This list includes failures