Space Forum / Space History / August 2006

The History Channel series "Our Generation" will be near Cape Canaveral
on Thursday, August 17th and would love to interview Baby Boomers who
remember watching the first lunar landing and who may have been at the
rocket's launch as a child.

I've been watching some of the Spacecraft films videos of Apollo
missions, 7 through 15 so far.  
Got me thinking...
If the first moon landing was faked, why do more?  They could have

I distinctly recall the day Columbia first flew.
Actually I remember the day it didn't fly also.
But the day it flew I stayed home from school until it made orbit.
After that I finally went to school.  My teacher only asked one question,

If someone actually uses their New Reader filters, as expected, filtered
posters will only get a response if an unfiltered poster finds something
of value in what the filtered poster has said. I generally use filters and
have no problem filtering posters who enjoy abusing other ...

Who else thinks this name sucks?  Artemis would have been more
appropriate, as the sister to Apollo.  Especially since Orion already
has a completely different connotation in space history.
Ah, well.  The PAO strikes again.

In this case, you don't unzip, you zip up.:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14002908/
Pat

http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/China_Successfully_Tests_New_Rocket_Engine_999.html
Okay...."liquid hydrogen and kerosene"....either something is very wrong
here or somebody's bought that Russian dual fuel rocket engine technology.
Pat

...Now, as for how this relates to ssh, Hobby Lobby now carries the
Atomic City 1/12th scale Mercury Capsule kit. With the discount, the
price comes to only about $48. Buy it online anywhere, and it'll run
you from $65 to $90, depending on who's out to rape your wallet.

Okay; it appears to be solid fueled, have at least two, and possibly
three, stages, be a Swedish/German project, and be shooting a giant
artillery shell into orbit- what is this thing?:  
http://www.ssc.se/data/content/IMAGES/2004112293016538Maxus%206-100%20stor.jpg