Space Forum / Space History / February 2006

See excellent dday essay at
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/550/1

http://www.unitednuclear.com/aerogel.htm
...The fun thing to do would be to see how well this stuff holds up
between two of those big neodymium magnets :-)
                OM

...This morning, I got not one, but *FIVE* free trial offers from
Netflix in the mail.
All addressed to Wbua Znkfba.
                OM

Henry - just curious about your take on this website and the overview
lectures available therein concerning what the author refers to as "A
Correction to the Gravitational Model" involving a "transverse
gravitational redshift."  It's been a long time since undergrad

I remember decades ago (quite possibly in the mid-1970s) reading a
Reader's Digest condensed book with the title _My Hectic Life As A
Space Age Wife_, or something similar, written by the wife of one of
the engineers rather than one of the astronauts.

Henry Spencer has several times in this forum suggested that a TKS-like
spacecraft is an option for a nation/agency requiring a flexible
general-purpose piloted space vehicle. Regarding this, he noted that an
Apollo CM, appropriately modified, could have functioned like the ...

suitsat launched today (well yesterday)
anyone see it? I invited a couple of my friends over to watch NASA TV over
my broadband connection. was quite awesome.
and great material for jokes.

Could foam shedding affect the Russian shuttle Buran as well? Its
Energia booster also used cryogenic fuel so I presume there was some
insulation. So, was there any possibility of shedding or not? And if
so, was there any possibility of foam shed hitting Buran? I would be

From http://www.onpointradio.org/shows/2006/02/20060203_a_main.asp
The lead story on page one of the New York Times last Sunday read: top
NASA climate scientist says the Bush administration is trying to stop
him from speaking out on global warming.

This only stands as proof that a good telescope worth a few hundred thousand
dollars ( maybe a little more ) is alot more cost effective and just as
efficient as the multi-billion dollar boondoggle known as NASA.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-01/26/content_4102608.htm

   I was just reading an article on the anniversaries of the three major
tragedies in American spaceflight.  I never paid much attention to the dates
of the tragedies before.  The article had the dates listed -
January 27 - Apollo 1 fire.  January 28 -Challenger explosion, and ...

Wikipedia notes that Jan 31 1961 was Ham's flight of fame, aboard MR2.
<http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/32/Ham_the_chimp.jpg/90px-Ham_t
he_chimp.jpg>
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Rusty --
have you a reading list for Shafer and Iliff and Shafer&Iliff?
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