Space Forum / Space History / October 2005

Folks
I'm trying to put together a couple of colour posters that are accurate
renditions of all of the world's launch vehicles currently launching
craft either to orbit or beyond. (Not sub orbital) The problem is that

Where on the internet can I find overviews/listings of space rockets in
drawings/pictures and with informations about the rockets, such as weight,
height and so on?
I hope, there exist such pages and I hope this is the right group.

I was reading Modified Apollo Logistics Spacecraft, a PDF found in a Rusty
posting:
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19740073531_1974073531.pdf
It's good reading for anyone who's interested in the plans NASA had for

A pretty successful mission apparently:
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/china-05zzzzzzzzzg.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3180618.stm
 "China has confirmed that it will launch its first manned space
mission between 15 and 17 October, the official Xinhua news agency has
reported.

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=1069
...Hopefully, this *and* everyone killfiling bombardmentfuckwit will
wake the group up a bit. Especially when people look at this slide:
http://images.spaceref.com/news/2005/nas.esas.16.l.jpg

'L5 News' from late '70's available on-line
The strange-and-wonderful 'L5' organization,
devoted to space colonies a la Gerard O'Neill,
had a high-octane newsletter, and I've just found

I have a question about the 250-ton cranes in the VAB...  Are the
lifting cables original to the installation of the cranes or have they
ever been replaced?

Doing a little research on Lake Vostok, I encountered this little gem:
http://www.lantis.tv/amp/releases/cryo_inv.html
Jeez, even Pat couldn't come up with something this wacky.
D.

I recently saw the footage from the inflight camera of the Saturn V
interstage seperation. Its now perhaps the best known movie clip of
the age of spaceflight. Right so. But I have some question I couldnt
answer myself.

Less than a day left, and it's going for cheap...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4581118792
Next up: a collection of Martin Titan III MOL/Dyna Soar documents

I was just out at our local WalMart, and noticed that they had Estes
kits of the X-Prize contenders for around eight bucks each- so if you
are looking for a place to pick up a low-priced model of SpaceShipOne...
Here's the ones Estes has out:

mission,
SEE: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/moon/index.html
Taken from a tape recorder on board the CM:

Others may disagree but this story tells me that they finally have
someone running NASA who knows what he's doing.
Griffin: "It is now commonly accepted that was not the right path. We
are now trying to change the path while doing as little damage as we

Hi, Today I read about Gregory Olsen and the other astronauts landing
in Kazakhstan and I thought to mysel, "what does the Russian space
agency do with them once they land?"  Do they load them on a truck and
cart them back to mission control?  Do they remove any critical