Space Forum / Space History / January 2007

For all the Thunderbirds/UFO fans:
http://www.fabgearusa.com/the_future_was_fab_the_art_of_mike_trim_book.html
Make sure to check out the video at the bottom of the page.
Pat

Check out
http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-americanpower/space_policy_4246.jsp
I've read his latest book, it's one smarmy snear from one end to the other,
and will try to get around to a review one of these days...

I'm interested in the concept that was put forward for an Apollo landing on
the far side of the moon. Were they planning to deploy a relay satellite
for communications or was the proposal to rely only on waiting for the CSM
to come into communications with earth for periodic updates ...

December 22, issue of Science.
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/314/5807/1894
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/314/5807/1894
(subscription required)

Which has nothing to do with a goat getting its rocks off on a rock, but
rather your possible Martian ancestors:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1989431,00.html
Pat

You had better pray for that piece of sh.t Stick of yours, Doug.
What the f.ck is wrong with these people?
http://cosmic.lifeform.org/?p=258

I was trying to dig up more data on that UFO video that James Oberg
found, and came across this photo of a supposed crashed flying saucer:
http://www.menphis75.com/images/foto_ufo_crash/ufo_crash0010.jpg
Is that the four chambers of a XLR-11 rocket engine in the foreground?

Two Soyuz and two Progress:
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2007/01/10/nasaspacecrafts.shtml

Just posted on the NASA NTRS PDF server:
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Reference Guide to the International Space Station - NASA - July 2006
110 pages - 187-mb PDF file

Jan 12 Marks Jubilee Birth Date Of Russia Great Space Designer
  MOSCOW, January 11 1434 GMT (Itar-Tass) - The jubilee birthday date of
outstanding spacecraft designer Sergei Korolev is marked in Russia by
issuing a memorial medal and launching a Progress supply ship named after

Looks like the sojourner clearly did move since the last received
transmission, proving it outlived its mothership.
Has anyone already worked out how far it moved and how to translate this
into a number of days, based on its onboard contingency program?

Does anyone have any info on the object in this image
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/2/p/1073/2P221620399EFFASCGP2534R1M1.JPG
looks like some artificial object burried in the soil, is Spirit
starting to lose some of its parts?

Nutters that need to be sent to killfile hell
and be sodomized by the Maxsons for ever more.
The mind you save might be your own, natch?
Brad Guth

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6246513.stm
The search for purple-haired ladies begins! :-)
Pat

This time, they're pretty sure:
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0701/03titanlakes/