Space Forum / Space History / March 2006

Soyuz Launch -- Up Close and Personal
My museum client (http://www.discoverytours.org) is organizing a repeat of
this trip for this September,
and I will again be the tour 'expert-in-residence'

   I finally won two Colliers space magazines on ebay!!!  I've been after
these things for the past few months.  Ever since I heard about them in the
Gemini spacecraft films DVD.
   The one I want most is the one with the detailed diagram of the space

http://www.flgov.com/release/7512
For all those who think the press and the public give a sh.t about space,
consider this: I live in Florida. I watch the news. This appeared on no
local broadcast, I didn't see it in either the Gainesville Sun or

A friend and I were talking about batteries... so we got to talking
about the Apollo fuel cells and the electrical system in general.
The SM stored three hydrogen-oxygen fuel cells which worked via a
hypergolic chemical reaction, with some of the energy converted to

see
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/23/AR2006032301691.html

Dear Friends,
I have added some new information to the short article "Sputnik-3, its
flight and  radio systems"
that I published at my web site on 22 January 2006. This new information

I figured Av Weeks "Blackstar" to be just so much nonsense, especially
given the XOV design aspects that don't really make sense. But today I
got photos of a model of the "Lockheed X-151." Hmmmm.....
http://www.up-ship.com/Stuff/Blackstar/smLockheed%20X-151%20a.jpg

A friend who collects watches is fond of the Omega Speedmaster line, which
Apollo astronauts wore on the Moon.  He pointed out to me that Omega has a
screensaver for Windows machines that shows a Speedmaster, attached to the
oversize Velcro strap that wraps around the arm of an ...

...Here's one from Boingboing:
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/03/24/megaphone_helmet_on_.html
...Pat, you need one of these :-)
                OM

I can't claim to have read all the astronaut memoirs, but that doesn't
keep me from saying this is the best yet. Mullane kept growing in the
15 years between leaving the corps and writing the book, and what ties
it all together is the perspective that brought -- on the byzantine

I was reading Buzz Aldrin's "Men From Earth" book, and he mentioned
that, like Vostok, there were Mercury flights (Schirra's specifically)
that had an in-capsule video camera.
I've never heard of live in-capsule video before Apollo 7  - - is there

Does anyone know where I can download video's of the lunar missions?
Thanks.

Msnbc.com (Oberg) Commentary: Why Enceladus discovery matters
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11744581/
Let us drink from the fountains of Enceladus
Geysers offer opportunity to obtain scientific evidence on life