Space Forum / Space History / November 2006

So, Henry, where in Canada can a sandy desert be found?

....our priorities for space superiority are:
1.) space situation awareness;
2.) defensive counterspace; and, as a last resort,
3.) offensive counterspace,....

I want to show you freely distributable pictures and maps of Europe.
Choose here:
http://homepage.hispeed.ch/mercator/europe/
Best regards

Is the NTRS server for NASA technical documents down? I haven't been
able to access it for a few days and don't remember seeing anything
about it being moved elsewhere or shut down.
   Mark

When the CM was being docked to the LM, was the roll angle between the
two (I think I've got the terminology right) important? If so, how much
error was tolerated?
Thanks...

Can someone tell me whether Wombats live only in Australia,
or also on other continents?
Apart from zoos, of course.
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We had something quite bright orbit over Jamestown, North Dakota* around
20 minutes (6:20 PM CDT) ago, but whatever it was wasn't on J-track 3D
or the other NASA satellite tracking pages. Track was due south to
north, object was 1st magnitude (about 2/3rds the brightness of the

The Headquarters National Security Space Institute (HQ NSSI)
provides space power education and training required to
prepare warfighters for joint military operations.
http://www.peterson.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=4933

Several new titles have been added to the Black Cat Press collection of
space fiction classics, including Jules Verne's "Purchase of the North
Pole" (featuring the first-ever countdown to a space launch!), J.A.
Mitchell's "Drowsy", Garrett Serviss' "Edison's Conquest of Mars", etc.

Unmanned Vehicle 'Bored Out Of Its Mind'
Full story:
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/54360

Okay; $445 an hour is steep, but they are going to work:
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Robot_Helpers_To_Work_By_The_Hour_In_Japan_999.html
Isn't it cute?
The first ones always are; then they tear your balls off:

Test

I recently learne that NASA is planning to send a probe to Europa in 2015.
But for some reason, I started thinking, what if it was not an unmmaned
probe that we were sending, but a manned mission to Europa.
Let's just say.

I wonder if you folk can help me............
I'd like to buy my husband an astronaut related biography /
autobiography for Christmas. He has lots already, so I'd like to get
him a newly published one if possible.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/11/22/spacestation.golf.ap/index.html
"And it looks like it's going to miss the Dark Matter trap..."
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