Space Forum / Space History / January 2006

I am offering a prize of $1,000,000.00, payable the day I win the lottery,
to anyone who can tell me one usefull discovery that has been made as the
direct result of a NASA space flight, that is beneficial to the average
person here on earth. Please, no communications sattelite ...

When will the average citizen realize that NASA is the single, biggest waste
of taxpayer dollars on the American landscape. 'Fraud and waste' could be
their motto.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0%2C16937%2C1692139%2C00.html?gusrc=rss

I believe that John Palmer, the news reader @ the time for NBC's Today
show did at first a live voice over of the launch for West Coast
affiliates as an "Update for Today." Sever minutes later they brought
up the entire network.

ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM: http://ecolloq.gsfc.nasa.gov/announce.wendt.html
Date:     Monday, February 27, 2006 / 3:30 PM
Location: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Guenter Wendt, "Pad Leader, to the Moon and Beyond"

Orlan jettison from Mir, 1991-1992??
I've talked with people who saw a Russian film
of an empty, worn-out Orlan suit manually
jettisoned from Mir in 1991-1992. Is there

Check this out - a papercraft Saturn V model consisting of downloadable
.pdfs you print, cut out and assemble.  Pretty amazing someone would
take the time to figure out how to do this and share it.
<http://www.lhvcc.com/egiftshop/satv20/>

I'm wondering if the site
http://epizodsspace.testpilot.ru/bibl/neizkosm/obl.html
and its 'new' photographs of the Nedelin disaster
http://epizodsspace.testpilot.ru/bibl/tul/zona/foto.html

My own minor contribution to space history research, or damm it's odd
what my brain will serve up...
It was not known (publically) until fairly recently about the booze
rations on Apollo 8.  Yet, in "Carrying the Fire" - Collins wonders

For air-launch aficionados out there - you will have heard of the
USAF's test airdrops of a Minuteman from a C-5A in 1974, with
the first stage live and fired. Just saw a note in rec.aviation.military
pointing to some long-range pictures of the drop:

   Question about the future NASA space vehicle that's supposed to replace
the space shuttle:
   Will this thing have the payload capacity of the current space shuttle?
I was always told you could fit a school bus in the payload area of the

I am saddened and a bit amazed no one had mentioned it yet....
3 brave men died that day. I have attended the memorial service in the
past. Its a moving experience...

If we ever decided to go to Mars, is it necessary to select astronauts
of both genders so that they can act as sex partners in the long and
lonely journey?
And is it possible to make love in weightless environment ?

Frank H. Bauer, ka3hdo
If all goes well, SuitSat will be deployed in 10 days.  Are you ready?
Have you talked to a school in your area about SuitSat?  Or a student
group?  Is your SSTV receive capability ready for the challenge?

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As you  know by now, I'm facing charges of slander
and defamation of character in federal Middle District

How many of the Apollo Saturn V third stages (Saturn S-IV)
are still in orbit ?
Regards.
Pete