Space Forum / Space History / September 2006

Don't know if you're following her blog comments but she did report on
some things I found interesting :
1. She didn't participate in the traditional "take a leak on the bus
tires out to the Soyuz" on launch day...guess it didn't bring bad luck

Apollo experience report: Environmental acceptance testing
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19760019157_1976019157.pdf
Apollo experience report: Guidance and control systems
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19760019156_1976019156.pdf

Of these two books by Siddiqi, does one cover up to a certain date,
and the second one from that date?  Or how is the coverage split
between the two books? ("Sputnik and the Soviet Space Challenge" and
"the Soviet Space Race with Apollo")

We all know the timeline from Peenemunde via White Sands, Kapustin Yar
etc. to Canaveral and Tyuratam, and then to space. If the German army
of the early 1930s hadn't wanted the long-range artillery denied it by
the Versailles treaty, no job for young Wernher von Braun, no major

...And now we have Dick Tracy's Space Coupe:
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/content/?cid=4810+
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/forums/get-attachment-big.asp?action=view&attac
hmentid=12679
...I mean, seriously? Did Lockmart hire Diet Smith to design this

Astronaut Collapses During Ceremony
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=2478889
HOUSTON Sep 22, 2006 (AP)- An astronaut from the space shuttle
Atlantis collapsed twice Friday during a welcome home ceremony, a

Some over-zealous misogynistic mullah in Iran had to
hide Ansari's head hair with a photoshopped space helmet --
can't be inflaming them passions of chaste Moslem men!
http://drsanity.blogspot.com/2006/09/space-fauxtography.html

...Ron Baalke posted this on .news already, but CNN just picked it up:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/09/22/mars.face/index.html
...Boy, if this finally doesn't put the last nail in Hoaxland's
coffin, then it's time to break out the Holy Water and drown the

LockMart Wins CEV Contract - NASAWATCH
http://www.nasawatch.com/
http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/news_space_thewritestuff/
-Rusty

There is a golden "sheet of paper" around some parts in the lower
portion of the Apollo Lunar Module. You can see it clearly in this
picture:
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/a11/as11-40-5864.jpg

Are probes like the soviet Luna 9 & 13 considered soft landers or hard
landers? Years ago, all the sources that I came across insisted that
soft landers had to use braking rockets to cut velocity, and that the
Lunas (and, by extention, probes that use airbags, like MER) were

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ls4e2GlHu5M
(and links from there  -- looks like the whole broadcast in six
chunks)
Monte Davis

The guys restoring the Skylab replica came across two trailers of gear
that were used by Space Camp; besides lots of instrument panels that
will be reinstalled in the Skylab replica, they've found an adapter
section used to attach a Blue Gemini to the MOL. Here's a photo of one