Space Forum / Space History / July 2006

...Last night, our favorite CT nutter dipshit, Richard Hoaxland, was
on the Fart Smell show(*), whining about conspiracies within NASA, and
he raised one issue that actually caught my attention. After that
thread here a while back about purple plague, when Hoaxland claimed

One aspect of an STS launch is the roll program early in the ascent to
bring the vehicle to the correct inclination for its eventual orbit.  I
can't recall hearing of any discussion of the LM rolling after
liftoff to find the correct orbital inclination to rendevous with the

The shuttle will be linking up with the space station within the hour.
It's the most dramatic moment of the flight so far since launch --
'two whales mating', it's been called. Gently, very gently.
Reference my home page, a new special section on 'orbital mechanics':

the shuttles that is - it keeps em where they can be most useful
and avoids the most dangerous part of the mission - reentry

I don't know about anyone else, but I vote thumbs down on the new name for
the rockets.  It sounds too much like the ESA Ariane.    And how many people
know that Ares is a pseudonym for Mars?  I never refer to Mars as Ares nor
have I ever heard anyone else make that reference.

http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts121/060705inspect/
Birds chased away from 39A earlier offer Independence Day Salute:
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts121/060705inspect/birdstuff.jpg

Take one ET, fill with multiple Transhab inflatables
Get lovely, safe on orbit habitation, and grist for the Mars Mill.
After looking at this site
http://www.space-frontier.org/Projects/ET/

...I just watched the last 30 minutes of "Space Race - The Untold
Story" on the NatGeo channel. I honestly think we've found a doco
that's more inaccurate than "Moon Shot", kids. Just in that last half
hour or so, I noted the following serious inaccuracies:

Aside from Viking and Mars Pathfinder,
what other space history events are we
familiar with that occurred July 4???

...FYI, I had to do a fill-in DJ shift in SA today, but thanks to the
miracle of NASA TV on the Web, I managed to catch the launch at
reasonable high-speed quality. Which means while it looked great, it
still wasn't clear enough to see the foam shedding, if any.

In reading about the upgradd tiles, I couldnt help but notice the
tmeperatures they are to withstand-ZRY-yttrium Zirconium is used in
kilns that get higher temeperatures that even renetry temps
(geochemistry-Trans0Tech-93-96)

JimO advises: Can anybody help this guy? CC him directly, please.
I just saw the CBS 60 Minutes program featuring Ed Bradley interviewing Neil
Armstrong.  There was a segment with Walter Cronkite and they talked about
what he said and did when the Apollo lander touched down on the ...

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_147.html
Article isn't bad, but some here may recognize the name of the guy doing the
followup.

A few days back, workers accidentally bumped the ET for Atlantis and
left a small scratch on it. They decided to fix this, but have noted
water is now coming out of the ET's foam that apparently got into the
foam during hurricane Katrina.

Shades of Poltergeist!:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,71249-0.html?tw=wn_index_27
Meanwhile, what the hell is "Adolphus 12"?:
http://allafrica.com/stories/200606270213.html