Space Forum / Space History / March 2007

I've just come across this Russian archive:
http://rgantd.ru/vzal/korolev/razdel6.htm
full of extraordinary photographs from Korolev's work
on the space program -- many scenes I have never

America's Initial Answer To Sputnik, the USS Nautilus
William Anderson, 85; commanded submarine that reached North
Pole
By Dennis McLellan

"Although the name 'Dee Riddle' causes more than a little suspicion on
my part, Robin.":
http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2007/03/05/599903-suspected-meteorite-strikes-ill-home
Okay... how exactly how can a rock falling through around fifty miles of

to slow it down?  It was going , what, about 25,000 MPH?
Or did it "crash" squarely enough into the atmosphere that it didn't
need to?

From NASAWatch :
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/01/AR2007030101291.html
"The shuttles were on an endless trip to the nowhere of low Earth orbit.
The moon is a destination."

(It turns out Oefelein is the dirt bag...)
Steamy E-Mails Highlight NASA Love Triangle
NASA Astronaut Lisa Nowak Collected E-mails Sent between Former
Lover Bill Oefelein and His New Girlfriend

Apparently non-orbital, but apparently reached over 100 km, as they
claim it went into space
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17326341/
Pat

Looks like ESA and the Russians are going to lead the spacelab effort
on ISS:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/library/news/2006/space-060517-rianovosti02.htm
Is there any specific plan to get spacelab payloads to and from ISS

Aviation Week & Space Technology reported that Sen. Ted Stevens (R-
Alaska) recently told NASA Administrator Michael Griffin that he
believes it will be "almost impossible" to find any more money for
NASA in the current environment, but suggested the sale of space bonds

A large NASA-MSFC inboard profile of the AS503 (Apollo 8) Saturn V.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=250090645969

Astronaut charged with attempted kidnapping not attempted murder
Fri Mar 2, 2007 1:42PM EST
ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - NASA astronaut Lisa Nowak, who
stunned colleagues by driving from Houston to Orlando in diapers

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17362178/
Fueling operations during a thunderstorm?
Were they loading up the hypergolics, or doing a test filling of the ET?
Pat

BROHP - British Rocket Oral History Programme are now taking
registrations for their 2007 conference.
BROHP is an organisation which began with the intention of recording
the experiences of those who worked on the British rocketry programmes

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/a11/AS11-40-5850HR.jpg
What is the white bag on the lower left?

...Well, the Ex - who I guess is now the Not-So-Ex again - and I went
to see "The Astronaut Farmer" tonight. It was partially my way of
getting back at her for making me not only go see "Black Dog" years
ago, but for actually paying to see Meat Loaf try to act. But I