Space Forum / Space History / August 2007

All the outer planets radiate much more heat than they receive in
energy from the sun. All that is except Uranus which radiates
negligable energy not received from the sun. Theories try to explain
this but nothing so far has been put forward that can be proven or

To my surprise I find that Wernher von Braun's novel 'Project Mars'
has been published recently:
http://www.apogeespacebooks.com/Books/ProjectMars.html
This book probably ought to be subtitled THE MOST IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC

I went digging around for images of the felt backing under the tiles, as
I noticed on the images of the tile ding from orbit it appears to be
black in color:
http://a52.g.akamaitech.net/f/52/827/1d/www.space.com/images/070812_sts118_tilei
nspct_02.jpg

While I was out today, a voicemail came in from a General Dynamics
Export Control Compliance guy at NASA/KSC. Wanted to ahve a chat with me
about my web page here:
http://www.up-ship.com/drawndoc/drawndocspace.htm

MSNBC.com (Oberg): "Human failings serve as NASA wake-up call"
How medical rules were bent - and why remedies are needed
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20167011/
Commentary // By James Oberg // NBC News space analyst // Special to MSNBC

Catherine Thimmesh, Author of "Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed
Apollo 11 on the Moon" is our first guest to open a new segment for
the podcast entitled the APOLLO BOOK CLUB.
Now available at http://www.apollotalks.com or via iTunes.

In 1/72 scale, just made available:
http://www.up-ship.com/

A Chthonian planet (/IPA: 'kθoniən/, sometimes misspelled Cthonian),
is a
hypothetical class of celestial objects resulting from the stripping
away of a

Anyone here do presentation to grade school students ages 5 -17.
By that I mean, go into school and talk about space history or
current mission with something like a powerpoint presentation?
I do some chemistry demos, however, I am interested in seeing if

Sorry that I missed a chance to watch it . . . I know . . . I
know . . . its (just) another Delta, but I will never tire of watching
launchs.  If I were still living in Florida, I think I would be
watching each one by stepping outside . . . even if they were

Not sure where you live?  We do go to schools to increase science
awareness - and there is no charge to the school.  Last year I did ~130
of these chemistry demos that were free of charge.  Most of the schools
said thank you and asked if I would come back, some gave me a mug from ...

Space colonization advocates are constantly bringing up Columbus as an
example of what exploration can lead to. The Spanish are apparently
listening: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20216344/
Pat

Suppose that the Titan I ICBM had never been developed. It was, after
all, rather redundant and had only a very short service life. With no
Titan I, presumably there would have been no Titan II or III. What
impact would this have had on the development of launch vehicles?

Richard Hoagland was on a few nights ago.  
I had never heard this theory before.
He said he's talked to some of the moon walkers, specifically Buzz
Aldrin and Edgar Mitchell, and said they can't remember certain parts

In one paragraph published in the link provided below,Mike Griffin used the
phrase "if true" four times in talking about the recent astronaut health
study.
It just occurred to me that maybe NASA used this "if true" mentality for the