Space Forum / Space History / March 2006

I'm being contracted to make 1/144 scale Blackstar models. I woudl liek
to get a read on what sort of interest there is (the models are *going*
to happen, they're next on the production line after the CXV/QuickReach
2), and what *version* of the XOV.

Lockheed Martin
Media Contacts:
Julie Andrews, 321-853-1567
Joan Underwood, 303-971-7398

Its time to retire permanetely pads 39 A&B.
When the last shuttle flies one pad should be kept pretty much as is,
and stack a shuttle replica with tank in launch configuration
permanetely, and cover with a large plexiglass bubble, protecting the

Calling around to several municipal / educational centers in Worcester
and Auburn MA to see if there's any events planned for the 80th
anniversary of Robert Goddard's 16 March first rocket launch.
*Nothing*

How nany white room was builted for Apollo programm ?
Looking nany pics, I was refered 5 white room used (it was wrotten on face):
N° 1, I don't see pics with this marking
N° 2 for apollo 7 at LC34

What do the fine minds of ssh make of this?
http://aviationnow.com/avnow/news/channel_awst_story.jsp?id=news/030606p1.xml
[Blackstar: a super-secret two stage to orbit military spacecraft]
It occurs to me that any orbital flight, or significant sub-orbital one,

...Seems you're getting a CAT-5 hurricane right now. You guys still
with us?
                OM

Since someone was asking about images (if any) of the Great Martian Ghoul, does anyone
out there have a list of his meals? IIRC there was Mars Observer, Phobos 2, Beagle 2, MCO,
MPL, a Japanese probe, and several Soviet spacecraft. Looks like he was full, so he took a
pass on MRO ...

Cut me a little slack in regard to my replies to postings on the
newsgroup; my new job takes up over 42 hours a week and I've already
dumped sci.space.policy due to constraints on trying to get
work/eating/sleeping together at one time and place in regards to it.

...Apparently some lurker around here made a comment to one of the
editors at BoingBoing, and they ran a blurb on the Darkstar mess. So
rest assured we'll probably get a few more trolls than normal headed
this way in the next few days.

On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 07:25:54 +0000, Peter Twydell <peter@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote:

Screw Sir Andrew- at this point only Sondheim could turn it into

We recently had a thread on EC-135N images. I think a I found a further still:
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/oped-03za.html
"Aa very rare photo of a Saturn 1B (Apollo 7) in full flight.
(this picture was included in a Time Life space book in the 1970s

   I finished reading This New Ocean about a month ago.  Two of its main
themes are how the space industry and the military are interlocked and wound
tightly together.  The other theme is the group of people who supported the
"manned" missions to space and the moon vs. the ...

I've compared the amount of material (rocks and dust) returned by the six
Apollo missions:
http://silicium.dk/pics/space/apollo_material.gif
-and the time spent between lunar landing and lunar liftoff, and total EVA

http://www.google.com/mars
Buddy of mine has been working on this project:
http://themis.asu.edu/bt/valles3d.mpg.torrent   (so my server is one of the
computers in the swarm.)