Space Forum / Space History / November 2005

Does anybody know how the panels that covered the LEM worked?  In
particular, how they were held together and sealed, what signalled them
to begin their separation, what provided the force to separate them,
and whether they were hinged or just blown off?  IIRC, on the Apollo 8

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/19/delay.indictment.ap/index.html
...Now, if only ever other anti-NASA crook-in-politician's clothing
would get tossed in jail, space exploration would be better off.
                OM

...Jeez, I'm gone just over three weeks, and I've literally got 1000+
posts to go through after the killfile sends the Znkfba Genfu and
their ilk to their just rewards! Which means you kids haven't been
w.nking around while I've been on the wounded list, which is a -good-

I've seen artist drawings of the Apollo 13 CSM-LM firing the DPS
engine with the LM landing gear extended. Was it ever extended and if
so, why? To clear the pads of the engine burn?

Does anyone know where I might find information online about the
operation of the circuit breakers in the Apollo CM and the power
consumption of the electrical systems? I've found info on a few
specific systems like the AGC, but nothing more general than that.

Soviet news coverage of Luna 3
92 Pages
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19660080564_1966080564.pdf
Soviet press coverage of 1961 Venus probe

Hey all, folks.
Long time, no lurk, let alone post...
I scored myself a well paying gig for a TV show for Network 9 here in
Oz. I've been at it since the beginning of August, and have for all

Anybody out there have any leads as to the status of the proposed ISS
launched Suit SAT that was going to carry a payload for AMSAT
(pre-Columbia)?  Is it still on for the future or has it been nixed all
together?   Rich

Does anybody know of a source of accurate dimensions of the Gemini
Cockpit. I see a lot of illustration and a lot of external drawing with
dimension but nothing for the interior. Trying to model the Gemini
Cockpit.

If the planet were small enough and having but a slight bit of an
atmosphere to start with, obviously having a minimal gravity of say
3.71 m/s (0.38:1) and was rather moon like small in size compared to
Earth, but so happened to have developed a rather nastly and

US Space News http://www.usspacenews.com/  has some photos showing a
impact crater and its fading ray structure on Mars from an impact that
occurred sometime after 1976:
http://www.usspacenews.com/sitebuilder/images/recent_crater-600x362.png

"She just willna' fly, captain!":
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/launchers-05zzzy.html
Apparently there are more problems with the Merlin engine.
Pat

John Rennie over at Sci Am pointed out this results page:
<http://people.csail.mit.edu/rahimi/helmet/>
Pat, we need to know what the Mk II hat will be...
/dps

Do you think the first fart on Mars will smell like flowers ???