Space Forum / Space History / May 2007

An excerpt from the AP obit of Schirra:
Roger Launius, a space historian at the Smithsonian Institution in
Washington, said Schirra "had a personality that was fun and effervescent.
He had the gift of gab. He was able to take complex engineering and

I need a good detailed drawing of the Soyuz from ASTP, If anyone can
help?
Thanks,
Carl

Zero Gravity Corporation
Contact:
Rosalie Huerta/Lourdes Diaz
M. Silver Associates Inc.

...CNN is now reporting that Wally Schirra passed away today. No
details on cause of death yet.
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         "ALTERNATIVE 3" LUNAR TRANSFER BASE DISASTER
    Copied below is most of the text of the final chapter of the
book "Alternative 3", by Leslie Watkins, David Ambrose, and

I would like to get back in touch with Glen Swanson, space historian,
founder of *Quest* magazine, and editor of the Apollo oral history book
*Before This Decade Is Out*.
If you know his e-mail address, could you please send it to me?

[JimO: I suspect that I don't 'recall' this fact because -- well, it's not
and never was a 'fact'...<grin>]
USA Today: Columbia disaster stranded three men in space with 'no return
ticket'

http://www.texasmonthly.com/preview/2007-05-01/feature
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I just heard on a video that the each of the Saturn V's F-1  engines
burned 2 or 3 TONS of fuel per second.  How do you even move fuel that
fast?  Those fuel lines must have been huge.

Keith Cowing to Astronaut John Young - "Sit Down and Shut Up"
http://cosmic.lifeform.org/?p=286