Space Forum / Space History / May 2006

Well, it's finally available for Windows
http://pyramiddesign.us/
I haven't had a chance to play it yet (other than a "chimp-mode" MR-flight),
but it looks pretty good. It compares favorably to the Mercury add-on to

The Hasselblad cameras used on the Apollo missions used a pistol grip
to trigger the shutter, right?  Did the astronaut have to wind the
film to the next exposure or was it motorized?
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Worker badly hurt in Sea Launch accident in Long Beach
ASSOCIATED PRESS
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20060511-0343-ca-workercrushed.html
3:43 a.m. May 11, 2006

Av Week: What Is Wrong With This News Item?
Arctic Action (In Orbit, by Frank morring, Jr.), May 8, 2006, p. 13
"...On May 2, a big Maxus 7 rocket exposed a package of five
European Space Agency experiments to microgravity for

Here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2006/04/20/DI20060420010
51.html?nav=nsc

Russia Launches Israeli Spy Satellite
Russia Launches Israeli Satellite to Spy on Iran's Nuclear Program and
Its Long-Range Missiles
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=1888471

Details of Robert Goddard
It was his flight to fancy that laid the foundation for the first
flight into space. Robert Hutchings Goddard, the Father of Modern
Rocketry, was an American expert of rocket research who is recognized

April 20, 2006
David Mould/Bob Jacobs
Headquarters, Washington
(202) 358-1400/1600

Prepare to hurl:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Movies/04/21/leisure.startrek.reut/index.html
"The project will be directed by J.J. Abrams, whose Tom Cruise vehicle
"Mission: Impossible III" will be released by Paramount on May 5.

http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-gemini11.html
Gemini 12 capsule docks at Adler
April 11, 2006
Chicago Sun-Times

With Eileen Collins announcing her retirement, just how many of the current female members
of the Astronaut Corps are rated as shuttle pilots (and presumably will be CEV pilots as well)? I can remember Eileen Collins and Susan Still as pilots, but the latter has returned to

James Randerson, science correspondent
Wednesday April 26, 2006
The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/space/article/0,,1761376,00.html

In the event the Shuttle is retired early, couldn't the ISS be boosted to a
high, stable, orbit, say 400 to 600 miles where it would circle, crewless
for many years if necessary, without orbital decay?  It could be
refurbished when the new generation crew service vehicle has become