Space Forum / Space History / May 2006

James Oberg: The real significance of the ISS thruster test failure
May 8 // The Space Review:  http://www.thespacereview.com/article/619/1
  Last month's failure of a test of a pair of rocket engines on the
International Space Station has taught a whole series of unexpected ...

I understand full well that this question was asked here hundred times
though I can't find a discussion with any reference to any factual
information on the matter.
It's been my hobby lately to open any book about the Apollo program and

See http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12869190/from/RSS/
The controversy over Strughold's past
goes back a long way. Was something NEW
discovered, or was it just somebody NEW

All excited about the new "Boeing 757 Hitting the Pentagon" footage
Karl Rove just gave his blessing to?  Did it look anything like this?
http://signs-of-the-times.org/signs/editorials/signs20060518_WhatthePentagonVide
oShouldHaveShown.php
If not, it's probably the same fake they've ...

I meant to post this, months ago, but the original email, got shifted
around somewhere...  Pete is a radio colleague, and this terrific
memoir, goes back to his days, at WKRB, in Brooklyn, New York...
JIm Burns  (James H. Burns)

http://space.com/scienceastronomy/060517_netpune_planets.html
This article in Space.com talks about a recent discovery of a small
system of planets orbiting a star called HD 69830. The article
describes how the 3rd planet in the system apparently "is located just

It came up in a conversation the other night about the bacteria found on the
Surveyor parts that were returned by Apollo 12 and how they survived for
years.  Doing a quick web search, I found this article consistent with that:
  http://science.nasa ...

Nigeria to Launch Locally Made Satellite, 2018
http://allafrica.com/stories/200605110077.html
Daily Champion  (Lagos)
May 11, 2006

I've forgotten how to search
the archives of sci.space.history.
for example, for our discussions
about the Judica-Cordeglia fratelli.

Lockheed Martin builds Vietnam's satellite
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/HE16Ae01.html
May 16, 2006 - Asia Times
HANOI - The Vietnam Post and Telecommunications (VNPT) Corporation

The team that built Beagle 2 is building the rover for the 2011 ESA ExoMars
mission. They've taken it to the resort island of Tenerife for testing. Here's
a story on the BBC website about it-
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/4767403.stm

You see these kinda funny discussions all the time. I just wonder if
its really occuring?
How hard would it be to heavy lift basic necessities? possible other
space station?

This has probably been postulated a thousand times before, but..
Did they really need three crew members to make it to the moon?
I know it made total sense to send 3, it's just an interesting question.
Could two, or even one astronaut have handled all the tasks involved in

I'm enjoying this new book very much, but was wondering about
a statement in the introduction that the Vanguard-1 blowup
(December 6, 1957) was 'televised live' to the US and the world.
To the world, I know they didn't have relay satellites (duh!),

John Lear, the son of the creator of the Lear Jet who flew L1011s for a
living, is putting forth a most entertaining conspiracy theory. Not
that we never went to the moon, but that we've been going to the moon,
and mars since the late 50s.  That there has always been a second