Space Forum / Space History / August 2006

Help, please:
Around 1980, long before I was thinking about space along my current
lines, it occurred to me that if we insist on the New World scheme of
analogy, the best match for staged-rocket technology would be not

Hi everyone.  I signed in to a warm welcome a couple of months ago.
I'm a space historian whose primary focus of research is on the early
American space program, particularly the STL probes of 1958-1960.
My first article is appearing in Quest this Fall, and it will detail

"Mother Very Easily Made a Chocolate Jam Sandwich Using No Peanuts, Caramel, or
Xanthan"
Surely this can be improved...

I don't really care who, but bin Laden recently acquired
Somalia ya know.   We need to convince Nigeria to go
finish the job and take Mogadishu. Or do it ourselves.
Even if they're not involved, the fundamentalists need

I know what happened to the tapes, they were found by one of the
Moon-landing deniers/conspiracy guys who had to destroy them because
they were proof that we had actually landed on the moon!

On the DVD, the first two of the three TV transmissions from Apollo 11
on the way to the moon are listed as "unscheduled".  Were they
broadcast at the time?  (There's no commentary by the astronauts as
they usually did when the signal was going out to the world.)

So you wonder what our Strategic Forces consisted of in 1971? How many
Minutemen, how many Titan IIs, how many B-52s?
Well.... you might have it in a book somewhere, as at the time these
were publicly known figures, freely disseminated.

I was wondering what the rockets (shuttle, Saturn V's) etc are or were
stood on.
Obviously, they aren't suspended on their engines, so what structure
is used to keep the engines off the pad for firing?

Comrade! The Young Pioneers are history! Screw the Komsomal...get ready
to meet the Boy Scouts of Russia!
http://www.scout-gazeta.ru/INI-eng.htm
Okay, what particular Soyuz is that in the background, and why the

NASA Is Borrowing Ideas From the Apollo
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=2311726
By JAY REEVES
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. Aug 14, 2006 (AP)- Jim Snoddy and other NASA

I'm looking at the Apollo 8 TV on the DVD, and it looks like it might
be slow-scan TV, like the A11 moonwalk.  Is that right?  What about A9
and A10 - was it slow-scan?
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"Hello, this being India Aeronautics And Space Program. How may I be
helping you into orbit?"
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/space/0,71399-0.html?tw=wn_index_20
                OM

some of the most famous Saturn V footage is (1) taken from the top of
the first stage, showing the second stage pulling away, and then the
interstage falling off, and (2) taken from the second stage, showing
the interstage falling off.  Which flight(s) are these from?

Next Generation Exploration Conference:
http://ngec.arc.nasa.gov/images/banner/NGEC_header.jpg
It's down at Ames.
It looks to the bold manned exploration of space in the world of