Space Forum / Space History / September 2006

Who is Anousheh Ansari?
Impressive
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anousheh_Ansari
Masters in Electrical Engineering

The IAU decided this week to remove Pluto from the list of planets. A
spokesman released this statement, "We're awfully sorry to have to let
Pluto go, but this restructuring is necessary to move this solar system
forward. We've got to tighten our asteroid belt and make difficult

Did the Soviets claim a rendezvous for Vostok 5 and 6 the way they did
with 3 and 4?  They also got within 5km of each other.
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Replace you know what by j to email

As this photo shows, there is a shim projecting from one of the
Atlantis' belly ET attachment point doors.
http://www.usspacenews.com/sitebuilder/images/dfr-337x367.png
Anyone know if they intend to remove this prior to reentry?

Sharon Weinberger, who wrote the new book "Imaginary Weapons" about
unfeasiblely super high-tech or bogus solutions to military requirements
(such as a atomic hand grenade) has a new website:
http://www.imaginaryweapons.com/

bummer
Space Museum Grounds the Shuttle To Dulles Center
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/31/AR2006083101782.
html?nav=rss_print/style
By Jacqueline Trescott, Washington Post Staff Writer

1. Watching the Explorer 1 liftoff (on the Liftoff DVD), there is a
bright light shining near the top of the first stage, near where the
umbilical goes in.  What is this light?  It is visible for quite a
while after liftoff.  

from
http://astronautix.com/thisday/sepber10.htm#BORN
"1962 -
       •        Fire in a simulated Air Force space cabin Nation: USA.

Atlantis is _not_ history yet!
A beautiful, beautiful launch.

Select dates from chronology...
3 October 1987
Chuck Yeager sets new air speed record of Mach 6.7 in the X-15
24 December 1967

Google Earth - Space related waypoints
---LAUNCH SITES---
Alcantara, Brazil
S2.318023, W44.365494 - (clouds)

GI Joe flies a Mercury Redstone or......
If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try, try, try, try again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_efhSYqujHs
-Rusty

Yesterday and this morning I get this message on all of your ICBM
website URLs:
Sorry, the page you requested was not found.
They (or at least the two Titan ones) were there last week.  Have you

I'm looking for drawings and/or dimensions for the Atlas family.
There's plenty of info on the D, so I'm after earlier and later models.
Specifically, I'd like info on the differences between models:
1) Booster skirt and side pods on the A.  The first two A's launched

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_artic
le_id=403931&in_page_id=1773
Enough close calls in space already apparently.
It may be the Enterprise, but no Scottish engineer onboard.
Sigourney Weaver, on the other hand, is made of sterner stuff.