Space Forum / Space History / December 2005

Anybody interested in this ship of RAH's from "Starship Troopers", take
a look at this site and lemme know what you think.
http://www.up-ship.com/Heinlein/heinlein.htm

...Catch the latest episode of "South Park", kids! Matt & Trey not
only take a rather funny jab at the cost of Space Tourism, they answer
the one question *nobody* asked during all the flaps over what
happened to the Saturn V blueprints & tooling: what happened to the

Which manned spacecraft has made the quickest complete orbit of the
earth?
I found that the Apollo 17 parking orbit was 90.3 by 90.0 nautical
miles with a period of 87.83 minutes. (According to Orloff in Apollo By

Skylab reuse study
Allison, J.; Allayaud, D.; Barry, R.; Champion, R.; Farris, R.;
Haefeli, R.; Karnes, E.; Kruger, R.; Littler, E.; Winter, M.
NASA Center for AeroSpace Information (CASI)

 I was wondering what the groups thinks of the need to build an
"LLTV 2.0" to train future Moon bound astronauts, or has simulation
advanced to a state where such an effort is superfluous and needlessly
risky?

Cost of New Russian Moon Program Estimated at $2 Billion
Created: 11.11.2005 15:15 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 15:15 MSK
MosNews
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/11/11/russianmoon.shtml

Here is a NASA report just added to the NTRS server in PDF format.
It's a 1966 NASA/Grumman study that uses a manned Lunar Module to
deploy a 400-ft to 3000-ft solar reflector in a 6000 nm or 24 hr earth
orbit. The reflector would be used to illuminate selected areas of the

My car has this weird fore-and-aft oscillation when I'm driving it at
ordinary speeds. It's of very small amplitude but I can feel it through the
seat. When the propellant depletes past about 90%, I can't feel it any more.
It's probably caused by a badly-designed fuel tank.

Channel 4 (UK) is attempting to make TV history in December by visiting  
the final frontier ? blasting a lucky team of starry-eyed applicants into  
space.
Well not really...

Crew Launch Vehicle - 7 page presentation given at the NASA Industry
Days conference on November 1, 2005. Among other the presentation
contains:
-Cut away diagram of Crew Launch Vehicle showing a breakdown of major

I found a tea website www.teahistory.net, which has some tea for health
articles, tea culture and chinese tea art perform for vedio,every kind
of tea in china and how to get them, about every tea article,such as
onlong tea, black tea, green tea,white tea,herb tea,Pu-er tea. Of

I am surprised that there has been no mention here of Mike Mott's death
(having succumbed to his battle with cancer two Saturday's ago).  The
man was at the very top of the NASA administration during Goldin's
tenure and he had spearheaded the Shuttle-Mir coordination with the

http://www.fantastic-plastic.com/RocketshipGalileoPage.htm
If this sells well, other Heinlein ships will be released as well.

I've redone the front page of my website. Hopefully it looks a little
bit more professional than  the previous iteration. Still much left to
be done, but there's also some new stuff here, including some of the
Heinlein ships under consideration for models.

Happy Thanksgiving.
A popular story (urban myth?) seems to be that Armsrong and Aldring had
Turkey as part of their first meal on the moon.
The Apollo 11 press kit lists the following menu on LM 5: (PDF page