Space Forum / Space History / June 2007

I heard several times that CDR and PLT were practicing landings on a
laptop simulator. Is the program available to the public?
Thanks

If Apollo 12 had waited an hour or two for the thunderstorm to pass,
how soon after would it have been able to go?  The same day, next day,
a month later?  How badly would it have messed up the schedule?

At http://oea.larc.nasa.gov/PAIS/Rendezvous.html it says "If
rendezvous had to be part of Project Apollo, critics of LOR felt that
it should be done only in Earth orbit. if that rendezvous failed, the
threatened astronauts could be brought back home simply by allowing

...Haven't seen a post from him in weeks. Did Rand finally run him off
with his drivel, or did Brad Guth eat him?
                OM

The Swizzle Stick on The Mercury Missions? What was it used for. I
have seen it in the Sigma 7. I did not get to ask Wally about it.
Carl

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/06/25/forecast-a-sky-full-of-satellites/?Qwd
=./PopularMechanics/1-1958/satellites&Qif=satellites_0.jpg&Qiv=thumbs&Qis=XL#qdi
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And, especially check out the foto at the lower right of the page at
http://blog.modernmechanix ...

http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=8071&start=1
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=7647&posts=367&start=1
Better get some more depends, Marsha.

[This began in rec.arts.sf.written as an offshoot of a thread about
Charlie Stross' "High Frontier, Redux" essay
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/06/the_high_frontier_redux.html#more
now at 650 comments and counting. As there's no sci.space.alt.

SKYLAB Space Station HOAX - exposed worldwide first time... *** 28
years later! ***
http://nasa-hoaxes.blogspot.com/2007/06/skylab-space-station-hoax-exposed.html

http://www.seattlefilm.org/festival/film/detail.aspx?id=23473&fid=32
Anyone seen this film? Is it worth the time to watch it?

A few months ago, in a discussion of the somewhat-mysterious Polyus/Skif
payload of the first Energia launch, I posted a brief summary of the paper
on it in the then-latest issue of Quest (vol. 14 no. 1).  The next issue
has appeared, and with it part 2 of the paper, so here's a ...

ISS made a nice visible pass this evening, before entering eclipse at about
11:52 PM CDT.
I would estimate about a magnitude 1 or 2 (brighter than Mars, less than
Venus) - be interesting to see if this changes as new solar array is

ISTR a story about Dan Goldin and it mentioned an idea of his for an all-female shuttle crew
for a mission either to ISS or for a Spacelab-type flight. He supposedly came up with the
idea after Eileen Collins commanded Columbia, and there were two other females rated as
pilots at ...

No Tits and a.s here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc7mkHtuLOs
Hey, where's that weirdo Hoglan guy on this one?  If he can talk about
faces in rocks on Mars, what about this?  Even if it's fake, they talk

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