Space Forum / Space History / July 2007

Two NASA robots are surveying a rocky, isolated polar desert within a
crater in the Arctic Circle. The study will help scientists learn how
robots could evaluate potential outposts on the moon or Mars.
http://www.theanalystmagazine.com/pr/g2011.htm

I am a new teacher and I really enjoy teaching about space. What are
some kid friendly sites that I could visit to keep my students up to
date with things happening in space? Thanks Wendy

...Yesterday, I got a call from Brother Dim. He started asking me a
whole shitload of questions about the Space Mirror Astronaut Memorial
at KSC, which I answered in order. However, when I finally got around
to asking him why he was so interested in it all of a sudden, he

http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/2007/07/scaled_composit.html
Excuse me, but shouldn't this be Rutan, Branson, and Scaled
Composites/Virgin Galactic's insurance companies responsability to take
care of?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20024738/
"We categorically deny the possibility that this could have happened at
Baikonur," Igor Panarin, spokesman for the Russian Space Agency,
Roskosmos, told The Associated Press.

Good morning Mr. and Mrs. Moscow and all the socialists at sea!
FLASH! A frequent Sci.Space.History poster has made it into the big league!
Yes, local aerospace modeler/historian/cat lover Scott Lowther has made
it into an article on NASA Watch, along with everyone who replied to ...

Putting some of the documents I've dug up on eBay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250138340542&ssPageName=ADME:
L:LCA:US:31
An early winged V-2, the A-8 and a sketch of a three-man A-9.

Story here:
http://tinyurl.com/28gsc4
Mojave, Calif. -- Two people were killed and four others injured
Thursday by an explosion at a Mojave Desert airport that is home to

Now this place will be run like a _real_ aerospace firm!
Hundreds of millions spent on goofy projects and nothing to show for it:
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/07/20/ap3937696.html
Pat

...Rusty, can you get me a list of what ASTP pdf's you've uncovered in
your searches?
Thanks!
                OM

Determining the Lacrosse satellite design from ground observations:
http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/satcom_transits/lacrosse.html
Pat

being sold to the American People. What craziness, here we are at War in the
Middle East and we are busy destroying weapons.
Hummm, kind of makes me wonder....

"El Kabong" Gemini parasail landing tests, 1965
http://www.temple-telegram.com/story/2007/07/23/42334

Frigid geysers spewing material up through cracks in the crust of
Pluto's companion Charon and recoating parts of its surface in ice
crystals could be making this distant world into the equivalent of an
outer solar system ice machine. See the details at

...All of these events supposedly happened on July 20th:
Birthdays of Note:
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* Theda "The Vamp" Bara, First American Silent Film Superstar.