Space Forum / Space History / May 2006

The New York Times
May 31, 2006
Golf Shot in Space Is Postponed by Russians
By WARREN E. LEARY

Right -- as if Jack Lousma hadn't piloted the backpack maneuvering unit
around the in side of Skylab in, oh, about August 1973.
NASA either start getting some good out of its history office
and stop making such ignorant 'first ever' claims, that only insult

Ballast of some sort? There's got to be a good story behind this one:
http://www.tampabays10.com/news/local/article.aspx?storyid=31886
Pat

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/sights/sightstory.php?tip_AttrId=%3D12959
Roadside America is a terrific web site anyway, full of all kinds of data
about every kind of good and bad tourist trap America has to offer.  I first
heard about an old Soviet satellite smashing into a street ...

Media 8 To Produce "Challenger" Directed by Philip Kaufman
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=19931
M8 Entertainment Inc. (TSX: MEE.MV.A and MEE.SV.B), a leading film
entertainment company engaged in the production, financing, acquisition, and

Encyclopedia Astronautica has referenced a pdf of Eugene Saenger's
Antipodal Bomber report translated into English:
http://www.astronautix.com/data/index.htm
Make sure you check out how the engine works starting on page 8 of the

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1899-02: British-Boer war (100,000)
1899-03: Colombian civil war (120,000)

Is there any good link that shows
images of the ETs WITH the PAL
ramp and then an ET without a PAL ramp,
just for showing the noticeable difference?

I keep forgetting to mention this; next time you're down at the movie
rental store, look around for a copy of "Good Bye Lenin!".
I can't give much away about it except it centers on the life of a East
German model rocket and space enthusiast, his 110% communist mother, and

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=20656
Pat

Complete Site Update - Including:
What did the CIA know and when did they know it? - 50 years of National
Intelligence Estimates - commentary and downloadable source documents.
Space History source documents and data - including a US Navy

Look what made it onto a stamp:
http://shop.usps.com/wcsstore/PostalStore/upload/images/200x200_xplane1.jpg
Pat

Next Tuesday after the long weekend. I just have to
give it a go with trying to play the market. It's such
a blast, and the money to be had is addicting to think
about.

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         "ALTERNATIVE 3" LUNAR TRANSFER BASE DISASTER
    Copied below is most of the text of the final chapter of the
book "Alternative 3", by Leslie Watkins, David Ambrose, and

Hi everyone, my first post here.
I have a question with regards to the way in which the real time video
screens were set up in MOCR. That is, the screens which displayed
real-time video. I have a document from Apollo 13 which has a floor