Space Forum / Space History / June 2006

National Geographic Channel (USA) will be airing a four hour two-part
show on the United States versus the Soviet Union's postwar rocket and
space work as they head into the Moon race on Monday, June 5th.
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/ET/popup/200606051900.html

...Kids, last Tuesday morning, my ISDN modem caught fire. After 7
years of operation, it smoked at 8am sharp, melting the case and
filling the apartment with the smell of burnt plastic and tantalum.
So, until the replacement comes in sometime next week, I'll be

Just back from a weeklong visit to VA and its environs, and spent a
fantastic day at the Udvar-Haze (America's Hanger as they are calling
it).  The place is great.  If you have kids there is enough space so
everybody can spread out, and adults can meander and study all they

another documentry that rips the official nasa story to shreds.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2265515730495966561&q=moon
wakey wakey

Von Braun Forum draws Apollo vets
Astronaut, rocket engineers to recall early days in orbit
http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/114725265269890.xml&
coll=1
Wednesday, May 10, 2006 - The Huntsville Times

Does anyone know what this item is? an "IPS Pea Electrical" item.
It was won in error in an auction of Space items.
I have tried to get a description of what it is from Aurora Auctions but
alas they haven't ever got back to me?

Real men don't need blockhouses:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060604.html
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THE MATRIX IS PERFECT MORE COMPLEX THEN THE UNIVERSE
http://www.beyond-science.com

Does anyone have a list of or reference to the serial numbers
(or construction numbers) for the various Gemini spacecraft?
The reference that I have seen, and which appears to have been
widely copied, shows both Gemini 7 and Gemini 12 as S/N 1853.

I picked up the last copy of the "Marooned" DVD at the Manhattan Beach
Fry's yesterday. A classic space movie from 1969, it is more realistic
than any "Star Trek" flick. Based on a novel by Martin Caidin, a very
popular aerospace novelist of the 60s and 70s.

How didi the backpacks work to let the guys work for several hours at
a time?  Were they recharged between EVAs or did they take several
extras?

One of those conspirace sites listed this as definitive proof that the
photos and video were doctored.  They said there was a loose flap in
the still photo, but not in the video.  If you watch the video from
the Apollo 16 DVD set, you can clearly see the loose flap in the

Hello my name is Darren Hayman, I'm a songwriter here in London,
England and have had some moderate success (releasing 7 albums, radio
play etc.) A few years back I wrote a song about Alan Bean, that
resulted in me speaking to the man himself via telephone.

I'm reading yet another moon-walker biography. This time it is Rocketman
(Pete Conrad). It's a good read, a better read than First Man. (Perhaps
because Conrad and Armstrong are at opposite ends of the "colorful"
spectrum.)

I have a hypothetical question - what if America's immediate goal in
the 1960s was to circumnavigate the moon or go into orbit around it
rather than  to land on it?  That would eliminate a lot of things such
as rendezvous and EVA.