Space Forum / Space History / November 2006

Florida's infamous murderer Danny Rolling is going to fry tonight, barring a
bunch of pussies at SCOTUS saying otherwise.
So, the question is this: considering how grisly his actions were, whacking
off heads in a manner reminiscent of Nicholas Berg, then posing the bodies,

...Anyone been able to log onto nasaspaceflight.com in the past couple
of days? Site's apparently down, which has me wondering if all those
who got suckered into that overpriced "L2" access got screwed even
worse.

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                Russia's OPERATIONAL Starwars Defense Systems
              In February 1992, Russian President Boris Yeltsin
         proposed to the United States and the United Nations a

Atlas Launch Systems Mission Planners Guide
https://osd.goes.noaa.gov/documents/AtlasV_MPG10.pdf
Delta II Payload Planners Guide - July 2006
http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/space/delta/docs/delta2_ppg_2006-07.pdf

Well folks, is it a technical glitch that caused MGS to go dark, or has the Great Martian
Ghoul struck again? His last meal was Beagle 2, so he probably needed a snack.
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http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=10515
     Good Night and....
     By Reid Collins
     Published 10/20/2006 12:07:01 AM

Update from Defense Tech on how the program's going- Mach 10 on combined
turbine engine/scramjet power, with first test flight in 2008:
http://www.defensetech.org/archives/002868.html
Has a small satellite launch capability also.

I should have trimmed that url-
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/23/arts/23wyatt.html

My previous postings/questions about the methods used to gauge the
propellant quantities in the tanks of space vehicles resulted in a lot of
good information for the report I am writing for NASA. Now, I have a
question about a specific application - Ariane 5. I know how gauging ...

Lovell, Aldrin Reunited With Spacecraft
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=2645040
Astronauts Lovell, Aldrin Reunited With Their Gemini 12 Spacecraft
By TARA BURGHART

I got a kick out of this one :
http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1995/11/10/
The Delta IV Medium rocks.
Did anyone see how much toast was burned at Vandenberg? The ascent was

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/11/13/mars.probe.reut/index.html
...Even if they can't figure out how to get MGS back up and running,
this should at least produce one really good photo op!
                OM

Is Apollo a cruel god? In some stories said Apollo is gentle but in
other stories said Apollo is cruel. Is Apollo really a cruel god?

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/11/05/dujail.saddam/index.html
...The only thing that would have made this more fun was if John
DeLancie was the judge!
                OM