Space Forum / Space History / August 2007

I was just over at the NASA Watch website and spotted this ad for buying
property on the Moon:
http://www.lunarlandowner.com/?source=googlespacegen
Note this part of the ad: http://www.lunarlandowner.com/news.htm

Boingboing published a short review of a so-called space resort to build by
"Galactic Suite" by 2012, reporting an article from NYT
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/technology/tech-space-hotel.html?ex=1344398400&en
=28fd53227c85141d&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
The author seems not ...

61 quotes
"I heard a voice shout, "A parachute is coming down."
"After I noticed the flash, white clouds spread over the blue sky..."
a blue flash from the window...

This is only a test.

Movie on 'Sputnik': "THE FEVER OF '57"
http://www.filmthreat.com/index.php?section=reviews&Id=10208
by KJ Doughton (2007-08-09)
2007, Un-rated, 96 minutes, Varied Directions International

The Gemini mock-up at the Owls Head Transportation Museum (Maine) has
upside-down lettering on the top part of its control panel (see
http://web.295.ca/~gpz550/panel.jpg).
Any idea why this should be so?

Just got off the phone with the Export Control compliance guy from
GD/NASA-KSC. There is *not* an ITAR issue with the stuff I've listed on
my website
He also pointed out that GD is *not* trying to censor Saturn V stuff.

World contact video
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2ogtf_contact-mondial-avec-les-extraterre_events

Skylab Restoration Project needs more money
http://www.usspacenews.com/
If you want to help, you can email:  tom.hancock@saveskylab.org
Jeff

Short of the International Space Station making a sudden unplanned
reentry and landing on Washington, this week couldn't possibly get
worse for NASA Administrator Mike Griffin.  That might be the only
thought that's keeping him sane right now.

...but with a smile!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R33-0uvSX1c
And what was with that 'NASA trainee' ID? Huh?

I was re-reading R.A. Smith and Arthur C. Clarke's 1954 book "The
Exploration Of The Moon" last night, and was frankly baffled by one part
of it.
Although the book is pretty accurate about the broad strokes of Lunar

Phoenix has 2 instantaneous launch windows each day, with two
different azimuths.  This seems odd since they are using a parking
orbit, so I'd think any intermediate time would work as well, with an
intermediate azimuth.  I don't think the two opportunities are

I seem to recall that once upon a time NASA considered using J-2s on the
Shuttle Orbiter. Would this engine have operated effectively from sea level
w/out major modifications?
Mr Jim

An article in Scientific American does some myth-busting.
Fact or Fiction?: NASA Spent Millions to Develop a Pen that
Would Write in Space, whereas the Soviet Cosmonauts
Used a Pencil