Space Forum / Space History / June 2007

A favorite blog pointed me to
http://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/visitKSC/NASAtours/security.asp, which
says that "Stand alone GPS equipment is not permitted on property", but
fully functioning cell phones are allowed. Since modern cell phones

Both towers down.
http://floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070616/BREAKINGNEWS/70616005

in my humble opinion and pardon my grammar , NASA spending  in
fuelcells has been more than 20 billion dollars since 1970, i'd give
anything to know who has been stopping this wonderful technology from
"percolating down" to cars, trucks,ships,homes and trains,  he or she

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/06/the_high_frontier_redux.html
                OM

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/179612main_s117e06901_hires.jpg
Not for any unique phenomena as such, but just for the sheer beauty and
coolness of it.

Hi, all.
I'm looking for the most common altitudes and inclination angles for LEO
satellites.
I found the distribution of altitudes easily enough.  See

50th anniversary of first Atlas launch
I remember that launch (I was 12 and already a 'space nut') -- the car radio
we were listening to, on our way to the beach, broke into the music program
to breathlessly announce the blastoff. A few minutes later, they broke in

Don Herbert, who as television's "Mr. Wizard" introduced generations of
young viewers to the joys of science, died Tuesday. He was 89.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/tv/1401AP_Obit_Herbert.html
Sigh.

Oh ... sh.t.
Well, if they miss their launch window, maybe they'll decide to skip
Vesta and go directly to Ceres. Wouldn't that be just great!
Screw Vesta. The last thing we need is another 'moon'.

Finally, at long last, a decent and accurate model of the Delta Clipper
is available.
http://www.fantastic-plastic.com/DouglasDC-X-CataloguePage.htm

NASA Administrator Griffin says he's not sure that global warming is a
problem...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18964176/
Drugs, dementia, or head injury?  Geez!

See this link:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23617759@N00/
I will post more sometime tomorrow.
Have a great night,

Wind-twisted leftover plume smoke from last Friday's shuttle launch:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0706/plume_sts117.jpg

My Family and I will be at the beach for the launch. We have always
stayed at the Holiday Inn in Titusville. It was full for Friday night.
We will be driving in from Fitzgerald Georgia, (Anyone want to meet up
for a talk?).