Space Forum / Space History / October 2005

Fun with Photoshop. This website has Photoshop astronauts. I like the
photo of Lance wearing Neil's spacesuit. Hmmmmmm? Someone should
design a lunar bicycle. Might be kind of hard to peddle in a
spacesuit, though. ;-)

I'm trying to find a list of all launches from the US, particularily
from the east coast in the second half of 1991. Does such a list exist?
I can't seem to find one on Google.
Maury

Here are some snaps from my late September visit
to the Huntsville Saturn V, showing restoration
work in progress.
"http://www.geocities.com/launchreport/hsatv1.jpg"

My magazine Aerospace Projects Review has officially closed up shop, as
far as new issues are concerned. However, I have a number of other,
similer projects in works (US Bomber Projects, a completely re-worked
Reusable Saturns, Spaceplanes, Dyna Soar, etc.). I also have a number ...

Pretty amazing view by Cassini. I swear this thing looks like a giant
sea sponge.  I've never seen such detail in a deep solar system probe
picture before.
< http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap051003.html>

Getting Sedna into orbiting Venus may be a wee bit easier said than
accomplished.
Sedna facts; http://www.answers.com/topic/90377-sedna
Sedna resides itself somewhere between 76 and 928 AU

Finally getting around to Ebaying a bunch of stuff of relevance to the
S.S.* groups. First up:
"Frontiers of Space" and "Manned Spacecraft" Two books by Kenneth
Gatland (and Philip Bono)

This coming Thursday, 22 September, in Chicago, you can attend an advanced
screening of the new movie *Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D*.
The film re-creates moments in the Apollo moonwalks in the wide-screen,
three-dimensional IMAX projection process.  As the ...

Has NOBODY remembered today is the anniversary of Sputnik?
I'm not surprised there's no news stories, but I figured SOMEBODY here
besides myself would remember...
Two more years and it'll be a full half-century.

I'll believe this when I see it:
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/lunar-05zl.html

The things one stumbles across.
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/copernica/cadb/indexA.htm
Gallery of (small images of) a large amount of artwork from the NASA Art
Program, alphabetised by artist.

  Hello,  all!
  I recently read that Gordon Cooper's Mercury flight Faith 7 carried a
slow-scan television camera which sent down some rather fuzzy images at one
point during the flight. Previously, I'd thought that Apollo 7 was the first

Poor Betty's at odds with the government again . . . what a surprise.

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I found an interesting photo of what appears to be a Titan 1st stage
powered by four engines.
Photo appears at the bottom the page:
http://www.bernd-leitenberger.de/text/titan34.html

I couldn't make this one up.
Alex Pachenko (of Soviet/Russian space and aviation collectibles fame)
lives in West Hills, California, which is north of Los Angeles. On
September 28th, a wildfire started in the Bell Canyon/West Hills area