Space Forum / Space History / January 2006

    A while back I got to wondering about the often-repeated trivia
that the shuttle Enterprise, OV-101, would have been named Constitution
had the Star Trek fans not written in, in droves and torrents.  In
particular I'd been unable to find when exactly the name Constitution

Dear Friends,
I have added a very short article "Sputnik-3, its flight and  radio systems"
to my web site.
 a.. Go to www.svengrahn.pp.se

Referring to an Apollo program meeting on 14 December 1964,
astronautix.com notes:
"It was decided not to put a C-band beacon on the SM for the post CM/SM
separation tracking. This decision came back to haunt the program much

http://datetosave.com/index.shtml
...Pat, you're not eligible for this one :-P
                OM

Ed Buckbee: "Von Braun and the Saturn"
http://ecolloq.gsfc.nasa.gov/announce.buckbee.html
Abstract and speaker information below.
Access information: http://ecolloq.gsfc.nasa.gov/index.html

An article from The Washington Post: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10185181/
Now this is interesting; the Congress may well be willing to okay a
budget hike to allow NASA to do both the Shuttle and the CEV, but the
White House doesn't seem keen on funding its own new program.

On the NASA JSC FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) web page is a
Statement of Work
that contains charges NASA paid Russia for astronauts to train at the
Gagarin Training Center for the then upcoming Shuttle/Mir missions.

so who is working on their own rocket ship????
well?
Due to a website crash. photos of mine are not available until i pull out
the album and re-scan the images.

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I was digging around for pictures of Dyna-Soar, and came across these
two shots:
http://www.hanksreunion.com/ben2.jpg
http://www.hanksreunion.com/A12ProgramBen.jpg

Edward N. Hall, 91; Rocket Pioneer Seen as the Father of Minuteman ICBM
By Thomas H. Maugh II
Times Staff Writer
January 18, 2006

(This is a Where Did That Kook Go? message.)
Readers may remember the International Space Agency, which was some guy
in Nebraska registered as a New York corporation who kept spamming
sci.space.* to "correct the truth" about, well, any time anyone said

Dr. Judith Resnick also perished on Challenger, along with the male members
of the crew.  They seem not to be as well remembered in the public mind.
"JR" was the only member of the crew I ever saw personally.  We never
actually met, but I attended a 1984 talk she gave on the ...

I have just been told by GB Judica Cordiglia that their massive book "This
the world will never know" has been chosen for publication by a major
italian publisher. I have an advance copy and the book is fascinating and
also very generous with technical details of their operation.