Space Forum / Space History / October 2006

I've been reading Astronaut Tom Jones book (Sky Walking) and in his
description of his first Shuttle flight, he briefly mentions shouted
warnings to the one female astronaut aboard not to enter the Shuttle's
mid-deck while a male astronaut was attending to a matter requiring

I have often imaged where we would be in space if in the last century every
penny in the world spent on defense would have been spent on space instead.
Any ideas out there?  Could we have reached a point where the space colonies
could exist without support from Earth, e.g. make ...

http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/TV/10/07/trek.model.ap/index.html
                OM

After reading "Atlas: the ultimate weapon", "Stages to Saturn", "Apollo: the
definitive sourcebook", and a lot of online stuff, including posts here,
it's apparent that the pressure-stabilized tanks of the Atlas and Centaur
were very effective at reducing stage mass and ...

Astronautix.com (http://www.astronautix.com/craft/satkshop.htm)
mentions a 1964 proposal by von Braun essentially to create a Skylab
space station but keep the S-II stage of the launch vehicle attached.
This would have provided additional experimental space and probably

Although the Centaur stage was first launched in May 1962, its first
operational launch (Surveyor I) didn't come until May 1966.  Not
counting the first launch, where the Centaur never had a chance to show
its stuff because of a first-stage failure, there were 6 flights prior

...You seen this one, Patrick:
http://www.culttvman2.com/dnn/Default.aspx?tabid=440
                OM

Please follow this link:
http://www.cardmodels.net/
Join the group, and do a search for SA-5. The model designer has done a
amazing job with the detail on this model. He is looking for input to

China picks top 30 songs for moon satellite
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2535745
Oct 6, 2006 - BEIJING (Reuters) - China marked Friday's Moon Festival
by announcing 30 songs to be broadcast to Earth next year from its

The returning space tourist according to a news reader on this mornings
news states that "space smells like a burned cookie"  An interesting
tidbit for those of us into the minutae of what it must be likei
................Doc

I've really seen nothing about any plans for commemoration... anyone
know of any?  Books, films, conferences, ceremonies, etc?
Thanks,
Matt Bille

What sort of scene would we have if ...
John

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/03/AR2006100301365.html
Pat

This is slightly off topic, but I do see people talking about commercial
space in here.  From what I can tell, the group launching the SpaceLoft XL
ran into a problem similar to mine, instability at high Mach numbers
resulting in a corkscrewing or coning motion during the burn ...

The world's biggest RATO unit. This looks like something launched out of
a silo or sub.
http://www.usspacenews.com/
Pat