Space Forum / Space History / January 2006

Well?

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/15/opinion/15park.html
"Scorched Earth"
By ROBERT L. PARK, January 15, 2006, College Park, Md.
NASA has quietly terminated the Deep Space Climate Observatory, citing

ok whats the odds of one of these return misions bringing back a super flu
bug that don't like human beings?
just wondering
tia

Does the US have the capability to say launch several ICBM with EMP weapons
on them, such that the US, if they wanted to, could bring a country to its
electronics kness, by employing such a weapon.
For example, lets say for whatever reasons, its not possible to actually

"Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut" by Mike
Mullane, Scribner Publishing, ISBN 978-0-7432-7682-5
What we have here is sort of like the a Shuttle era  "Carrying the Fire"
augmented with a lot of politically incorrect honesty and cussing. Or, the

Nice summary article.
-- rk
http://www.aviationnow.com/avnow/news/channel_awst_story.jsp?id=news/010906p1.xml
Aviation Week & Space Technology

I just got back from KSC and I have a question about the Rocket Garden
-- did they remove one of the missiles and replace it with a "dancing
waters" fountain?
There's a hole in the lineup, between the Redstone and the Jupiter. I

(From a friend's music website, these thoughts inspired by a couple of
new, New York '60s music series, and "oldies rock radio," in
general....!)
Jim Burns

Links on NASA Watch -- http://www.nasawatch.com
"Several lunar rocks were stolen this week from a car belonging to a NASA
instructor, police said. Virginia Beach police said the theft of the rare
specimens was reported Tuesday morning. They were inside a silver briefcase

Anybody (?) have a on-line location for PDF's on the
Valkyrie?...............Doc

Link courtesy of OMWorld - interesting experiment.  :-)
-- rk
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/060104_laser_comm.html
Record Set for Space Laser Communication

OM has been uncharacteristically absent for a couple of days. Hopefully the
aliens haven't come to harvest more s.s.h. body parts...
BTW, I visited OMBlog for the first time just now. I'm big on obits, so the
2005 death roll was a must read, and well done. I had no idea Debralee

This is a new esa' ion thruster, THE 'DS4G' THRUSTER, with isp = 19200s
nice!
http://www.esa.int/gsp/ACT/propulsion/safe_test_diaries_wk1.ht
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I've posted a rarely seen photo of the last Saturn IB booster stage,
built for
the SA-214 vehicle, at the following address.
"http://geocities.com/launchreport/sa214.html"

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/06/hyperdrive/
comments from the more informed?
shockie B)