Space Forum / Space History / November 2006

What happened with David Sander's Man Conquers Space project? Thanks,
David

We were having a discussion in the pub last night and the subject
veered off to NASA's reuse of Orion as a project name, thence back to
the original Orion and the joys of nuclear fission rockets.
Orion would have been something to see, as would Von Braun's idea for

...I'm surprised nobody here posted anything about this one yet:
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=21260
                OM

Was the DC-Y intended to be tail-heavy upon atmospheric entry? I'm wondering
what problems of weight and balance the design had to contend with during
it's nose-first entry. IIRC, it was to carry LOX in a tank near the nose, a
payload near the middle and LH2 in a big tank below ...

Man injured by launching firework from his bottom
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1943543,00.html
Mark Oliver and agencies
Thursday November 9, 2006

In 1958, the Air Force directed, STL constructed Able-1 lunar program
was initiated.  It's goal was to put a spacecraft in orbit around the
moon for scientific, photographic, and strategic purposes.  The Able-1
used the Thor-Able combination: The mating of a Thor IRBM with a

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20732271-2703,00.html
What did you expect, a suddenly rational and compassionate America?
Sorry, this is America, where now with a slight improvement, just less
than half the population is still composed of ignorant redneck God

Mars rover may get one-way ticket
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6128594.stm
Thursday, 9 November 2006, 15:00 GMT
By Paul Rincon

Wait till you see the thing with the two ET/SRB clusters flanking the
new first stage: http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=22508
Nova's back. :-)
Pat

NASA lunar mission gets off the ground
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003375872_nasa09.html
By Howard Witt
Chicago Tribune

NASA Concerned Over Photos Released Of Space Workers Sleeping On Job
http://www.local6.com/news/10260144/detail.html
http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/2006/11/sleeping_onthe.html#more
http://images.spaceref.com/news/2006/SOJ_1.jpg

<sigh> Poor Ron.
                OM

Paris Hilton wants to be the first celebrity to go into space
http://www.pr-inside.com/paris-hilton-wants-to-be-the-first-celebrity-to-go-into
-space-r24430.htm
The hotel heiress plans to take her reality TV show 'The Simple Life'
into orbit and have cameras filming her as she trains ...

A brief passage from the book "This the world will never know" by the Judica Cordiglia brothers.
The book (in Italian) has just been published in Italy by Edizioni Mariogros and is a tome of nearly 500 pages with lots of photographs, interviews of notable people who witnessed the ...