Space Forum / Space History / April 2007

For awhile there was speculation this was a returning Apollo-era S4B stage,
but more recent measurements seem to lower the chances of that...
Earth's "Other Moon"
April 17, 2007

See this link:
http://www.orbital.com/NewsInfo/release.asp?prid=605
I think it should be called Little Joe III, (It would be cool!!)!
Carl

Rutan granted patent for SpaceShipOne
On March 27, 2007, Burt Rutan and Mojave Aerospace Ventures were
granted U.S. patent 7,195,207
for SpaceShipOne.

In Thursday's Washington Post, Business section, by Marc Kaufman.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/11/AR2007041102168.html

please ignore

(If there is any justice in this world, his returning Soyuz will
inexplicably decide to reformat the reentry software and he'll return
on a ballistic path :)
BBC News Online

What exactly are the variables that not only allow life to evolve on a
planet, but allow it to develop a technology and intellect that allow it
to have the ability to understand, and indeed expand beyond, the planet
it evolved on?

In the 1990 book "The Big Splash" Dr. Louis A. Frank speculated that the
odd Noctilucent high-altitude clouds seen at polar latitudes in summer
were due to miniature dark-colored comets being disrupted as they hit
Earth's gravity field, and depositing ice crystals in the outer ...

Has there ever been a spontaneous and catastrophic failure of a cryo
upper stage during ascent?  All of the Saturn upper stages were
successful, as far as I can see, and I don't see any explosions of
Centaurs in the record, either.  All their failures seem to be

The MGS failure provides an interesting example of how trying to
improve reliability may hurt it instead.
Apparently, there are two different copies of the command software,
which are supposed to be identical.  One of the 'safe mode' attitude

After comparing documentation on the original Viking Mars landers (the ones
planned for Saturn LVs, called Voyager Mars) with the ones that flew in the
70's, I noted that the entry vehicle designs changed significantly. Now that
was undoutedly because we learned how thin Martian ...

http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/04/10/astronaut.arrested.ap/index.html
...According to the story, a police search of former astronaut Lisa
Nowak's car turned up bondage photos on a computer disk, British
currency and pills, Nearly all of the 16 images found on the disk

These people must be getting paid quite a nice wedge, all the health
care and that.
How is it their pscho evaluation team signed up Lisa Nowak in the
first place.

Updated, expanded and on CD-ROM. Still in the early stages.
http://www.up-ship.com/eAPR/index.htm
Make sure to check out the other documents and drawings I have
available: