Space Forum / Space History / January 2006

The site photofile.ru is full of hundreds of
thousands of images posted by Russians
on all subjects.
More than a thousand of the pictures are

NASA has released the ESAS Executive Summary - First Installment, on
Dec. 22.
Some of it is reprinted on the NASAWATCH website:
"NASA Exploration Systems Architecture Study Final Report (DRAFT)"

Was eating lunch and typed into Yahoo!'s image search engine the word "NASA"
and it of course came up with a pile of images.  Here are some of the more
interesting ones on the first page.
http://www.athenaeum.athenaverse.com/archives/galaxy_86big_M81_spitzer-telescope
_nasa.jpg

NASA Watch (http://www.nasawatch.com/) is reporting that Science is
reporting that Mary Cleave wrote "... the context of competing priorities
and the state of the budget for the foreseeable future precludes
continuation of the project."

That's the claim of http://www.chem.umn.edu/outreach/Sillyputty.html
Any truth to it?

The 1943 Sanger-Bredt proposal for rocket-range extension via atmospheric
skip has been discussed here before.  I first read about it in 1956, when I
got a copy of Willy Ley's _Rockets, Missiles and Space Travel_ as a
Christmas gift.  Many here will be familiar with the ...

Crap + Bacteria = Hydrazine!?:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/11/1109_051109_rocketfuel.html
Pat

http://history.nasa.gov/interncall.htm
Internship Opportunity  
The NASA History Division sponsors internships for undergraduate and
graduate students year-round. We are currently looking for interns for

I'd like to seek the collective wisdom of s.s.h. once again. While
looking at the new exhibit on the history of STS development at the
US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, I noticed, anmid a set of
displays on the Spacelab series, a telescope. I would have expected

Finally something completely on-topic!
White Sands launched some rockets that they have been unable to identify
over the years.
Can anyone help them out? (that Air Force one is one of the strangest

Maybe I missed something important... I noticed that Nasa's CEV mockup
looks preatty like Boeing's CEV (Nortroph-Grummans's) first drawings
and artist impressions.
That means Lockheed lifting body is out of the contest long before the

'60 minutes' screws up 'one small step' -- yet again....
The otherwise very classy and insightful piece on Neil Armstrong last night
(Sunday, Nov 6)
on CBS '60 Minutes' fell into the same trap as numerous other TV

DSL Server testing ...

I look for any interesting large database of photos taken duirng soviet
mission Lunochod-1 and Lunochod-2.
Could anyone shoot here interesting link, where i can find such
photo-documents ?

   Hello all!  This is one cool news group!
   Ok, I just got a new computer with Windows XP.  This has allowed me to
download and use Google Earth.  This is one cool program.
   I'm wondering if there are good space history sites I can hunt down