Space Forum / Space History / April 2007

Chinese newspaper has posted art of future moonbase concepts:
http://mil.qianlong.com/4919/2007/04/06/198@3767343_1.htm
If this follows tradition, it is a revision of some existing
Western moonbase art -- and while it looks vaguely familiar

As in thirty-plus feet deep water over its entire surface if melted?
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0703/15marsice/
Pat

msnbc.com (Oberg): Space station trip will push the envelope
April flight to mark longest-ever use of Russian crew capsule
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17815821/
By James Oberg, NBC News space analyst // Special to MSNBC

Unfortunately, our Venus EXPRESS team of supposed all-knowing wizards
have such straight and tight intellectual butt-cracks that they can't
even manage to break wind without blowing such as intellectual snot out
their brown nose.  There's has been such little science derived from

msnbc.com (Oberg) -- Fireball fears stoked by space history
Chileans often see the results of Russian orbital debris
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17859275/
By James Oberg, NBC News space analyst // Special to MSNBC

This story is more than two years old -- it describes 'Prowler', a secret
space shuttle payload from 1990,
that supposedly performed a series of automated rendezvous inspections of
GEO payloads, while

Comrade! Killer beam!: http://www.mosnews.com/news/2007/04/05/satelite.shtml
They talking about a laser here?
Pat

Background in a nutshell - I'm taking a public speaking course at the
local college. We have to do presentations to the class. A few weeks
ago, I gave an informative presentation to the class on the Apollo
program, using the mission of Apollo 16 as my "model" mission. In

Yes, they are FAKE.LIES.BOGUS.
Made in Hollywood.
Humans are too dumb and too fat to fly into space.That's the truth.

By me.  At Popular Mechanics:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/blogs/science_news/4213798.html

I spotted this on a polish website. Is this for real?
http://www.lotnictwo.net.pl/viewforum.php?f=1
Translates to
Ryanair Space Flights?

Is this a news story or an unjustified penetration of personal privacy?
As a general practice, don't crewmembers tend to stash loose floating
jewelry in a locker prior to suiting up for entry?
Am I, as usual, hopelessly out of step with mass culture?

"... There seems to be a lot of confusion in the media about what
constitutes a success. The critical distinction is that a test flight
has many gradations of success, whereas an operational satellite
mission does not. Although we did our best at SpaceX to be clear about

APOLLO 20 legacy part 1  The City
link is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lClEGo23li4
apollo 20,  august 1976 mission went to the Delporte-Iszak part of the
moon. CC was charles peter conrad, CDR was me, audio is unfortunately

Right here:
http://www.up-ship.com/drawndoc/drawndocspace.htm