Space Forum / Space History / August 2006

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2005/12/21/egg-beater-wind-plane-imitates-hoverin
g-flight-of-eagle/
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NASA has started placing a few CEV/CLV related documents on their NTRS
server.
Here are two I have found so far:
Overview of the Crew Launch Vehicle Upper Stage (88.7-mb)

If for some reason, the LM was unable to redock with the CM, were they
prepared to do an EVA to get back to the CM?
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Six people cooped up in a simulated Mars ship for 520 days?
No, it's not a new reality television show:
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/08/13/mars500.shtml
The questions on all the world's lips: "Will they screw? Can we watch if

Farmington-made rocket set to launch remains
By Abram Katz, Journal Register News Service
08/15/2006
http://www.bristolpress.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17053945&BRD=1643&PAG=461&dept_
id=10486&rfi=6

In a Apollo/Saturn V launch, the flight controllers say "mode 1 bravo"
and later "mode 1 charlie".  What are these - different abort modes?
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Probably old news, but I thought I'd share it anyway
<http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article1218885.ece

I have the Spacecraft films DVDs: Gemini, Saturn I/Ib, Apollo 8, and
Apollo 11.  I'm planning to get Mercury, Liftoff, and Saturn V.  I
also want to get one of the long Apollo missions, and that will be
about all I can afford to spend on these.  I didn't even get to see

On Wed, 09 Aug 2006 00:22:45 -0500, Pat Flannery <flanner@daktel.com> wrote:

But as Will Rogers pointed out, Democrats don't actually belong to an organized
political party. Watch Lieberman go split the vote in November. Brilliant...

Physicist James Van Allen Dies at 91
By TODD DVORAK
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2292011
IOWA CITY, Iowa Aug 9, 2006 (AP)- Physicist James A. Van Allen, a

Our resident kooks actually inspired me to take a look at a photo, and,
though I have no doubts that I'm seeing things in it which are actually on
the moon, I'm curious as to exactly what I am seeing.

NASAWatch got hold of the plan for how they do a destructive deorbit of
a damaged Shuttle:
http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/153444main_CSCS_Resource_%20Book.pdf
Pat

You know, if we could get something along these lines up on Mars:
http://www.strandbeest.com/movies.html
What makes these widgets so odd is that they move not like they're
machinery, but rather alive- particularly that Rhinoceros transport-

In this famous photo of WvB,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Wernher_von_Braun.jpg
On the left are an Atlas and a Saturn I.  On the right is a Saturn V.
Is the one in the middle a Saturn 1B and the fourth one a Saturn II?

NASA's New Moon Project Gets a Logo
http://www.space.com/news/cs_060814_orion_logo.html
A dark blue triangle shaped patch with the word "Orion" across the
bottom. The "O" of Orion is a blue globe and a red orbital path and TLI