Space Forum / Space History / April 2006

 In April 1981, I had the privelege of witnessing the landing of the
maiden flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia as a guest of a NASA
official at Edwards AFB. We were able to view from the fence at the
east edge of the Dryden Flight Research station. As the loudspeakers

Magnetic Moondust
http://www.yubanet.com/artman/publish/article_33883.shtml
By: Trudy E. Bell & Dr. Tony Phillips, Science@NASA
Published: Apr 5, 2006 at 07:34

Anyone know the straight poop on this?:
http://www.usspacenews.com/
Airlock Campout Failed - Why Do We Take Such Risks?
April 4, 2006

Good article by Dwayne A. Day in The Space Review about the effects of
a Saturn V pad explosion.
Saturn's fury: effects of a Saturn 5 launch pad explosion
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/591/1

Mishap mangles shuttle part
Panel investigates new KSC accident
BY TODD HALVORSON
FLORIDA TODAY

   An end to Nations, and the rise of City-States.
In my home of South Florida, the last hurricane
season gave us a glimpse of the future.
Hurricane Katrina and Wilma, like a good one-two

US space news reports NASA is getting Pratt & Whitney who own the
rights to the engine to build it for the new manned and unmanned cargo
system.
Pretty soon they will want to put a leftover saturn 5 on a pad and lite

April 12 will be the 25th anniversary of the first Space Shuttle launch.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/archives/sts-1.html

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0331061nasa1.html
Pat

Anyone know where to find the mass properties of a 'stacked' Apollo
Saturn V mission?
Dimension I can find, but center of mass and moment of inertia tensors
vehicle by vehicle, are not on the obvious sites, maybe it is on the

   Why is there so much hype over the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter when we
already have two remote controlled rovers on the surface?  What can the
orbiter do that the two rovers can not and have not done?

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=19372
NASA Reinstates the Dawn Mission
PRESS RELEASE
Date Released: Monday, March 27, 2006

See http://allafrica.com/stories/200603210851.html
Question is -- what are they still doing there?
Here's the background article on 'Encyclopedia Astronautica':
http://www.astronautix.com/sites/sanmarco.htm

I was watching the live webcast. Launch appeared ormal, then onboard
video showed a rolling motion and then it froze. I cannot reconnect to
the webcast. (excessive traffic?)
So as of this minute, the Falcon appears to be "history"