Space Forum / Space History / December 2005

Space cadets taken in by TV hoax
BBC News - Saturday, 17 December 2005, 12:48 GMT
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4537748.stm
Three contestants have spoken of their disbelief after being fooled

SpaceX First Pacific Island orbital launch?
Re the expected SpaceX orbital launch of 'Falcon-1' from Kwajelain
about December 19
(http://www.spaceflightnow.com/falcon/f1/051211update.html),

Visual differences in Baykonur Soyuz pads, area 1 and 31.
In examining images of the launch pads for
Soyuz at Pad 1 and Pad 31, I've noticed several
distinctions that help in differentiating them

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/12/15/obit.proxmire.ap/index.html
...Good f.cking riddance, I say.
                OM

...I just got this bulletin from a friend of Pat Flannery's:
"Greetings!  I am Jay, a friend of Pat's.  He asked me to e-mail you
to inform you of what is going on with him so that you can tell the
rest of the gang on the newsgroup.  Pat is in the hospital and will be

If you were in orbit east to west on Earth you would notice the sun
rapidly rising and setting unlike it had ever been seen by you out of
orbit. What is the other (IMHO, at least) unusual thing about the
sunrises and sunsets you would see, which would go against what you

...I figure while Pat's on the sidelines, I'd better come up with
another fun thread that'll hopefully prod me into thinking again about
doing that contrast & compare between the various autobiographies
about what happened where, when and to whom.

I am pleased (and somewhat amazed) to announce my first publication
on space history. Appearing in the January issue of Griffith
Observer (the glossy monthly magazine of Los Angeles' Griffith
Observatory), it ended up being called "To the Stars on Silver

http://www.space.com/news/cs_051212_kranz_sale.html
...Someone needs to buy one of the vests for Henry, so he won't be
left naked the next time one of us wins his ICH t-shirt :-P
                OM

Breaking news...
http://www.starshipmodeler.net/cgi-bin/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=31504

Anyone read the new bio on Neil Armstrong, "First Man" and have any
thoughts? Is it worth the read?
-A.L.

I mentioned this file in another thread, but I'm posting it in its own
thread in case anyone missed it.
NASA has posted an online solicitation for CEV models. As part of the
solicitation, NASA released a 16-mb, 37-page MS Word document. It has

Remember how I was very suspicious about a covert military connection to
DART?
According to NASA Watch, the reason the mishap report is taking so long
to come out is that the DoD is putting it through a classification review:

Got to stop those hoser ETs, eh?:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/prweb/20051124/bs_prweb/prweb314382_1
"Hellyer warned, 'The United States military are preparing weapons which
could be used against the aliens, and they could get us into an

Any thoughs about this article (and, of course, the complete .doc
file)?
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/lunar-05zzy.html
Maybe it's not the program's biggest weakness, but I didn't realize