Space Forum / Space History / November 2005

Folks:
just to advise you that the rare Apollo News Reference books are now
available as high quality reprints only from the Apogee Books website.
They will not be put into general release. These are only for Apogee

Next unmanned lunar landing -- when?
I'm doing a short essay for the 40th anniversary
of the Luna-9 moon landing, and will speculate
on when unmanned lunar landings will resume.

NASA has recently placed some new PDF documents about the
Apollo-Little Joe II launch vehicle on its NTRS website. Those
documents are listed below along with Little Joe II documents that
were released earlier.

Plus "Electronics Engineers Handbook" and "Compressed Air and Gas Data."
I'll be putting a few more Titan/MOL/Dyna Soar docs on Ebay soon, plus a
whole mess of SAMPE books.
http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQfgtpZ1QQfrppZ25QQsassZdynascott

Can somebody please tell me what is the precise time (in EST, and down
to the second)
that Apollo 11 lifted off the launch pad, landed on the moon and the
precise time that

Folks,
Y'all might be interested in this link
http://collectspace.com/ubb/Forum38/HTML/000281.html
Sy Liebergot

The idea may be notoriously unsexy -- it was when I floated it here a few
years ago -- but are there any new thoughts about the advisability of
setting up a base on one of the Martian moons as a place to study the planet
via remote sensing?

I've been thinking about the odd history of Apollo 8 and what it
actually represented in terms of breaking earth orbit and testing many
of the systems that were needed later. It was psychologically and
technically very important.

I was wondering if there has been any discussion on the size of the rocket
that would lift off of Mars and return to earth a Mars sample ?? I'm
thinking this would have to be a fairly hefty launch vehicle containing
fuel, electronics, manoeuvring systems, a sample container with ...

I was just watching a program on NASA's space centers on The Science
Channel, and they stated that each of Shuttle's forward  cockpit windows
gets polished for between 600 to 800 man-hours after each flight.
Is that an accurate figure? That seems like a tremendous amount of time

I dropped into the local bookstore last weekend to pick up Richard
Clarke's new novel. As I entered the store, there was a familiar face on
a dust jacket. First Man, The life of Neil A. Armstrong by James Hansen
is now available.

I've always wondered, have they ever waken up the astronauts with
either "Space Oddity" or "Ashes to Ashes" by David Bowie?
Has there ever been an astronauat in space with the rank of Major and
the first or last name of Tom or Thomas?

Where do all you guys live?
Could be interesting...
http://www.frappr.com/space

I really like Laurie Anderson's work, as I think she is a little
cracked, and that appeals to me.
http://www.laurieanderson.com/
However, her "Artist-In-Residence" status at NASA is a bit of an odd use

 I'm just curious if anyone knows how much the shuttle stack moves
horizontally before it clears the pad. Just been watching a launch on DVD
and it got me wondering.
Cheers...........Adam