Space Forum / Space History / July 2006

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3191211059169801591
For all my fellow Floyd freaks who got a huge kick out of "Dark Side"
dubbed over the original cut of "Wizard Of Oz", and all my fellow space
geeks and Kubrick fans, here's Kubrick's "Jupiter And Beyond The

NY Times raises old story that politicians chose sites of NASA centers
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/13/science/space/13storm.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
...then later in the story says, well, "maybe not" -- for those few of you
still reading this far.....

During the two press conferences Bush gave just after
the missile launches, he was asked each time which
direction the long range missile was fired. Both
times he dodged the question and seemed rather

...Right now, I'm watching the SF DVD for A15, and right after Dave
Scott steps down on the Plain at Hadley, he spots a "glass ball". He
marks the spot, and makes a big deal to Jim Irwin to not step on it so
they can collect it later. What was the story on this ball, and where

I've been reading a lot about Gemini lately, and the following
questions have come to mind.  Can anyone answer them for me?  These are
areas/buildings that are frequently mentioned, but I don't know the
actual locations of.

Maybe the Saturn V blueprints should be given to China?
Get 'em made under licence - why not, most other consumer
goods are - even 'sensitive' ones.
This way launch costs could be brought down to 200 Million

Take a look at the Energia-Buran 112A vibration tower
as seen from Google-Earth, at 45.9374N, 63.3113E.
In other photographs that I have seen, the south corner
has a long spar extending to the southeast that serves as

This web site http://www.moonhoax.com/site/evidence.html has Gene
Krantz and another guy saying that the Apollo telemetry tapes are
missing.  Is that correct?  It is missing for all flights?
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In order to complete an article about spacesuits,
could someone tell me what kind of suits are next
http://www.astrosurf.org/lombry/Sciences/x-15-genmaj-robert-white.jpg
for X-15 pilots, looks like a flightsuit, semi pressurised ?

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Cracks in foam ??  I say we launch anyways, July 4th and did you see
that launch time ??!!??  2:37 PM ET .
It's going to be a good day.

Could someone help be to find the correct version ?
I read at  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extravehicular_Mobility_Unit
that the apollo EVA suit was made of 21 layers. It is the first time I read
this.

I have been busy making some great new Virtual Reality Apollo
Panoramas that let you look around the surface of the moon in 360
degrees.
There are 8 movies so far, with many more coming soon

North Korea finally got around to launching their Taepodong-2
IRBM/ICBM/Satellite Booster/What's-It, but it failed in flight:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/07/04/korea.missile/index.html
I am presently reading a book about North Korea, and thought everyone

Less than a week until launch and STS-114 Astronaut, Charles Camarda,
is removed from leading the Mission Mannagement Team.
Blogger who knocked on his door,
http://blogs.chron.com/sciguy/archives/2006/06/nasa_the_shuttl.html