Space Forum / Space History / February 2006

I hear that a sattelite gives a signal that is like only one trillionth
of a volt in strength. Can someone tell me how Mission Control
amplifies the signal?

I need a good video capture of Vir looking up at  Morden's head on a pike. A
little project I'm working on as a gift for Peter David.

I wonder if they'll show the ground crew take the crew from Apollo 1
out of the capsule and kill them? Notice the article says nothing
about Scott's obsession with murder.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2005-01-19-grissom-documentary_x.htm?
POE=TECISVA

Neil Armstrong, in a very rare public appearance, said the following
at a
recent "Star Trek" fete honoring Jimmy "Scotty" Doohan...
"This evening is really an honor for me," Armstrong began. "It reminds

...Born on this date in 1930. We really should all chip in and buy him
a pair of brass knucks!
                OM

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/exploration/mmb/17jan_jack.html
Apollo Chronicles: Jack Skis the Moon     01.30.06
Apollo astronaut Jack Schmitt says skiing on the moon is possible, and
he's invented a new way to do it.

I thought someone would have already posted that it was 35 years ago today
'ol Al made golf an interplanetary game.
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Where can you discover the history of the effort at Edwards, and how
the Space Shuttle came to be. With 117 sources, 439 pages we take you
from Chuck Yeager to the Shuttle and beyond . Learn what took plce at
Edwards AFB in the early days of Lifting Bodies as told by Dale Reed,

A former roommate, Diane Marie Seaberg* (formerly Diane Shellman),
University of Miami Law student, admitted to me that she worked/works
for the government and was equipped with a spray to put a sleeping
person in a deep sleep for hypnosis/programming/torture.  Torture would

   I was a little surprised to hear that we are sending a vehicle to the
planet Pluto in a few days.  I'm also surprised that it's supposed to reach
Pluto in almost ten years - as early as 2015.
   Now, I know Pluto is way way way out there from the Earth.  Doesn't it

Does anyone have a good guess, informed speculation, or a wild-assed guess as to how
the CEV lunar landing site selection would be? Would the old Apollo sites that didn't make
the cut (or got axed when 18, 19, and 20 were cancelled) be on the list, or would new sites
be chosen? I ...

Was the cap actually made? And what material did they make it out of?
I understand they didn't do it because they couldn't possibly sneak it in, a
pitty, this would have made one amazing photo!

   Should Richard Branson be taken seriously?  It takes giant rocket
boosters to get the space shuttle into space.  So he's going to put his
shuttle ontop of jet and launch it from there?  And New Mexico is going to
build a spaceport?

    It just occurred to me that I never heard so much as a peep out
of the anti-nuclear loonies about the RTG's carried aboard New
Horizons.  Nothing on TV, nothing on the Net - absolutely nada.  I
wonder what got up their noses so much about Galileo and Ulysses that