General - historical manned and unmanned space flight programs

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Core sample question	06 Mar 2006 22:32 GMT	1
The Apollo XV mission brought back 10-foot core samples from Hadley Rille. How did this fit in the LM? Were the core samples rolled in a coil, or stored in segments?
FTETTM Region 2 DVD	06 Mar 2006 22:31 GMT	5
Apologies if this is old news, but the Tom Hanks mini-series is at last being released on Region 2 DVD - on the twentieth of this month. £44.99, available for £33.74 on Amazon. I'd given up hope of this coming out over here - my off-air VHS tapes are
Cronkite moon-rock ceremony -- no real news	05 Mar 2006 18:49 GMT	21
The wire stories appear to be only rewrite of the original press release. Did any journalist actually attend and describe what happened, what was said?
A question...	05 Mar 2006 00:13 GMT	36
Sorry if this message is posted in the wrong group: I'm not really sure where this question would fit. Does anyone know what was the average rate of human population groth during its entire history? I'd like to find out, on average, how often
Father of ISS Publishes Structure of the Atomic Nucleus!	02 Mar 2006 04:23 GMT	1
Thursday, February 23, 2006 World BlueStar Awakes With (ElectroDynamic) Start! press release for all peoples of the world ... birth of Electrodynamic Blue Star, Global Consciousness!
SkyDiver part II	01 Mar 2006 17:31 GMT	7
Well, here's a drawing of the Navy's submarine-launched drone attack surveillance/aircraft, and it is not a pretty thing: http://www.popsci.com/popsci/aviationspace/63b259a122d89010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdr crd.html Pat
Re: OT- and very funny	01 Mar 2006 15:17 GMT	2
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 22:47:52 -0600, Pat Flannery <flanner@daktel.com> wrote: >So, why did Condoleezza Rice dis Russia? Pravda has the very >politically incorrect answer: >http://english.pravda.ru/russia/politics/11-01-2006/9488-condoleezza-0
Re: OT: end of a legend	01 Mar 2006 13:11 GMT	5
Scott Hedrick wrote: >>Pat, if I can kill 'em at the horizon without seeing 'em, then I'll kill 'em >t>hat way with a Phoenix. If I have to wait until they are closer, but still
NASA marks anniversary of -- huh? Are they SERIOUS?!	01 Mar 2006 05:01 GMT	63
See nasawatch.com for Friday's ISS On-Orbit Status Report, which celebrates the anniversary of a very unusual event -- what's going on there? http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=19682
Apollo sonic booms	01 Mar 2006 03:35 GMT	5
Given the speed of Apollo command modules as they re-enter the Earth's atmosphere, did they create sonic booms that could be heard by people on the surface of the ocean? Or was that acoustic energy "funneled" upwards, and away from the ground?