Space Forum / Space History / May 2007

Great stuff coming out of NASA and NASAWatch nowadays.

See
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/2007-05-09-mercury-13_N.htm?csp=34#uslPageReturn
for the opinion piece, and join the discussion!!

"They stopped after ruining eight boats..."
This is the company that is to rebuild our manned space
program.  Was Lockheed the better choice, or were
they just better connected?

It seems that "sci.space.policy" is primarily established as to
know-thy-enemy and snooker-thy-humanity, as per avoiding and/or alluding
to whatever our moon is accessibly good for, and of what's most likely
artificial about Venus is almost as bad off and every bit lethal as the

How is it that the Shuttle can pump sufficient LOX through one long line
(140 feet?), which apparently has at least a few near-90-degree bends in it,
while the S-V had to run five huge lines, maybe 50 feet long each, straight
through the RP1 tank to the engines? It must have been ...

See this link:
http://www.mos95b.com/New/-Models/-Mercury/
This is the first look at the interior parts. "Air Bob", is painting
the exterior on this one, (Great work so far). We need a color picture

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SECRET PURPOSE OF FALKLANDS WAR; [includes IN-VISIBILITY
    Technology and the DETONATION of a Russian NEUTRON BOMB.]
TOP SECRET INTELLIGENCE REPORT

May 15 double-barrel Soviet space anniversary
A tale of two rockets ... with a happy ending
Russian anniversaries highlight how twists of fate averted war in space
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18620550/

I'm researching Apollo 7, and have come across some inconsistencies
between documentation and post-flight CM photos.  I've searched &
googled without finding answers, so can anyone help?
Here are photos of the A7 CM showing what I'm asking about...

See this link to Orbitals Stie:
http://www.orbital.com/images/high/TM19450_103a_crop_hiRes.jpg
I notice that it shows the SM is already shown as shorter. This must
mean the folks higher up have already made the cahge to save lbs.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/20/nasa.gunfire.reut/index.html
...So, anyone know the whereabouts of the usual suspects? Guth?
Znkfba?, Cowing? Bell? Elfritz?
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First women astronaut trainees snubbed by NASA to be honored
May 6, 2007
http://wkbt.com/Global/story.asp?S=6475933
OSHKOSH, Wis. They thought they were going to be America's first women

Among the recent additions to the Black Cat Press Conquest of Space
series (http://www.black-cat-press.com) is E.F. Northrup's remarkable
"autobiography", "Zero to Eighty". Writing under the pseudonym of
Akkad Pseudoman, Northrup details the experiments he conducted in the

FYI, Folks:
"The Discovery Channel - The Executive Producer for Beyond Productions
Sydney, is asking to film at JSC and other NASA centers for a 2-hou
special for the series "MYTHBUSTERS." In this episode they plan t

http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/space%3Bhistory/SIG=120vf5c18/*http%
3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070512/ap_on_sc/fallen_object_5
A mysterious metallic object that crashed through the roof of a New Jersey home earlier this year was not a meteorite after all, but probably a ...