Space Forum / Space History / January 2006

     It seems like once every month or so we see stories in the news about
telescopes making new discoveries with regards to reaching the far ends of
the universe.  From what I've read (which isn't much), we can now see some
of the first galaxies and stars ever made.  We can ...

OK, so I'm a complete newbie to this stuff. We're going to KSC to
(hopefully!) watch the New Horizons launch -- we'll be there on the
17th but have to fly home that night so everyone cross your fingers for
good weather, please, OK?

And more importantly,bring the general public into the development of
Space technology,let the people know that sometimes,in order to
progress,sacrifices have to be made,both human and financial.Otherwise,
another big disaster could kill the whole space program.

I've just this week made available a reprint of a "lost" classic
spaceflight novel, "The Moon-Maker", by Arthur Train and Robert
Williams Wood.
It's plot about a nuclear-powered rocket on a mission to divert an

I have transferred the entire Apollo lunar surface journal set to my
PDA and have been working through it (A11...A14 so far) in quiet
moments. While following the A14 traverse I also brought up a copy of
the traverse map:

http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/ap_060107_genesis_update.html
Official: Genesis Pre-Launch Test Skipped
Lockheed Martin, builder of the Genesis probe that crashed in the Utah
desert in 2004, skipped a critical pre-launch test that would have uncovered

OK, not a Rusty class post but ...
Listing is title+link followed by the same with an abstract.
--
rk

I'll be attending the New Horizons launch a week from today...happily
as a guest so with any luck that means a good seat!
I've been very pleased and proud of the fact that the postage stamp I
designed more than a dozen years ago had some small part in inspiring

   Is the Apollo space program still active?  I ask because I was on the
NASA web site and was looking at their page with their current missions.
They have Apollo listed as one.  Here is the link:
http://www.nasa.gov/missions/timeline/current/current_missions.html

This is just a test because I seem to be having a problem posting once
again.
How do I read this group in Forte Agent ??
Thanks

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/STUNT_PILOT_CRASH?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=US
                OM

http://www.clavius.org/techsvpogo.html
I noted the F1 backflow at the Saturn V at top of the page. Its the most
impressive image of this phenomen I ever saw. Saturn V F1 had this effect
more than any other rocket I got told. But in most tracking camera films

   One of the people that is responsible for Americas exploration of space
and beyond lost his wife a few days ago - Ramona Bell.
   I just found this out a few minutes ago.  Apparently she died Thursday
from an asthma attack.

Nasa team sees explosion on Moon  
Nasa scientists have witnessed a rare explosion on the Moon, caused by a
meteoroid slamming into it.
The blast was equal in energy to about 70kg of TNT and was seen near the

...Yeah, things have been silent on this end for the past few days,
but this time for a *good* reason. I had to babysit Brother Dim's
house while he and some friends went to the Rose Bowl. While there, I
found a surprise - he'd apparently borrowed the Spacecraft Films