Space Forum / Space History / August 2006

Rusty,
As god of all NASA PDFs, do you happen to know of any that detail what
kind of simulations were run for Apollo 10?  Specifically, were there
any contingencies for what to do if the ascent stage of the LM failed

I heard a voice shout, "A parachute is coming down."
After I noticed the flash, white clouds spread over the blue sky...
a.blue flash from the window...
it was not really a big flash...

Why, is it falling apart?

Apollo CM monocular -- magnification power?
When considering what an Apollo crewmember could have
detected looking at an external object through the CM
monocular, there's one simple question I've forgotten to ask

Here:
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/a-small-mistake-for-a-man-a-giant-loss-fo
r-mankind/2006/08/04/1154198331869.html
What was shown has been preserved in other recordings of the broadcast
video,

Video and audio stream, by Peter Finch
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/MovieSpeeches/moviespeechnetwork2.html
Program Director: Take 2, Cue Howard.
"I don't have to tell you things are bad.

Somebody posted something about the Shuttle programs often touted
"rescue ball" a while back ( I couldn't find the thread).   Just
reading my new copy of Walking in Space (David J. Shayler) and he
states p.338. that ,"but although two were built they were never tested

A documentary entitled "Apollo 11: The Untold Story," which aired on
British TV Monday night, highlighted a Bellcomm report by one J. J.
O'Connor
(http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19790072576_1979072576.pdf)

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Back when I was a BIS member, in the late-80s to late-90s, Spaceflight
had a series of articles on the development of the R-7.  Can anyone
tell me what issues the articles were in?  I was hoping BIS would have
an index online, but they sell a CD index instead.

I keep suggesting this to James Oberg over several years, yet get no
response as to regards a book.
Okay, you whip open your TV Guide, and on the right hand page there's an
ad that reads like this:

On Coast-to-Coast radio show tonight -- Aldrin and Hoagland
discuss 'missing Apollo-11 tapes' and NASA UFO coverup...
See
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2006/07/31.html

At this website of Philip Chien
http://www.sts107.info/accident/mod/MMT%20transcripts.htm#MMT%2001-21
I found this:
 Mission Management Meeting Transcripts

Are the "few" launch possibilities to the ISS because of the orbit
inclination of the ISS? Has this to do with the fact that the space station
must be reachable from Russia and the US ?
Was the original orbit inclination of Freedom better reachable for the

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