Space Forum / Space History / October 2006

New Russian Spaceship Will be Able to Fly to Moon
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/10/18/moonflight.shtml
-Rusty

Here are some V-2 atmospheric research flight reports from the late
1940's in PDF format.
They are from the Defense Technical Information Center.
http://www.dtic.mil/

The latest Lockheed Orion was not the first Lockheed Orion:
"This Lockheed Orion was flown by Major James H. Doolittle when he was
employed by the Shell Oil Co. It was known as the "Shellightning". Note
the NACA cowling, internally braced wing and retractable landing gear."

Anyone know where I can find dimentions of the Saturn V, tower,
pad, crawler, VAB etc?
Or a 1:2000 model.

Apollo 1, was the fire, (This we all know). Apollo 4, was the first
full up stack Saturn V w/Apollo CM. Apollo 5, was the LEM test on a
Saturn 1B. Apollo 6, was the 2nd full up Saturn V w/Apollo CM. Apollo
7, started the manned flights. Can anyone tell me what happened to the

The FSM-13 RSRM static test is scheduled for Thursday, November 16, at
6:00 p.m. MST. The reason for conducting the test during evening hours
is to meet NASA imagery requirements in support of night-time Space
Shuttle launches. This will be at the ATK facility near Promontory,

The good news is we have discovered about 100 reels of magtape containing
ALSEP data, some of which is not currently avialable in the NASA archive.
Sorry, no SSTV or telemetry yet. And it seems to be in pretty good condition.
The bad news: it is 7 track 800bpi.

HIROC just released the first shots of Oppurtunity at Victoria from
orbit.  Can even see the camera mast shadow.  Can't wait to see what
else they find,  maybe some old Soviet landers, European, US OT but
fantastic stuff.  All the Photos are truly Woo-Woo.............Doc

Get a load of the inlays on this guitar:
http://s53.photobucket.com/albums/g53/aqua-
tarkus/Martin%20Guitars/?action=view&current=IMG_2206_79_1.jpg
A lunar EVA suit on the headstock, a Gemini/Titan II stack up through

The Last Flight of Scott Crossfield - Esquire Magazine
November 2006
http://www.esquire.com/features/articles/2006/061005_mfe_November_06_Crossfield_
1.html
Rusty

North Korea warns of missile attack
News.Com.Au
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20560077-2,00.html
By Peter Alford in Tokyo

Apollo again. Just after clearing the tower, the SV does a pitch and
roll.  The pitch I can see, get on to the correct trajectory. But what
is the roll for? Not like the shuttle with a highly asymetric stack.

...According to Google, here's the first thread that got it all
started. That is, depending on how the Advanced Search in Google
Groups decides to feed you when you invoke the search. Apparently
there's a lot of timestamp confusion in the archives, but the two that

Someone here once said that NASA's ASTP team struggled with the S-IB/Apollo
launch weight limitations. Apparently it was hard to accomodate the mass of
the docking module and its support mechanism while flying an appropriately
provisioned Apollo to the orbital inclination the ...

Sorry if the link's been posted recently, but it's at least good for a
laugh.
http://www.aikensairplanes.com/mahogany/zz_apollo.htm
1:48 scale CSM/LEM stack, with a subtle difference.