Space Forum / Space History / August 2007

I ordered a DVD from them.
I never received it.
I emailed them and they wrote back saying they would investigate and get back to me.
They never did and they aren't answering emails.

Reading various posting found through Google, I think the following i
true:
"The Roman legions required each candidate for Centurion Guard t
resolve a pair of stars, Alcor and Mizar in Ursa Major, 12 min ar

6th August 1945 when Japan suffered first Atomic explosion
In the month of August in 1945 atomic explosions devastated Hiroshima
and Nagasaki, killing over 1,50,000 people.
The first atomic explosion was triggered on 6th August and second on

July 26, 2007
Report Faults NASA on Equipment Losses
By BLOOMBERG NEWS
NASA has lost $94 million in office equipment over the past decade,

Or stories about Bigfoot's love child.  The Weekly World News is
shutting down publication.
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070724/weekly_world_news.html?.v=1

-- NASA says it has found wires which may have been deliberately cut on
computers bound for the international space station.
.... reported by Cable News Network (CNN)

We need help.  I am assisting former workers of Dow Chemical (Metals)
in Madison Illinois.  These men alloyed Magnesium Thorium metal from
mid-1950s through 2000.  They qualify for the Energy Employees
Occupational Illness Compensation because they also worked uranium for

Hi, I m looking for information on this "spacecartf" display at huntsville
space Camp.
http://www.capcomespace.net/MolabHuntsville_mini.JPG

Among the patriotic icons on its pages, the new U.S. passport portrays
Pioneer 10 (or maybe 11?) along with the Earth and Moon.  But the art isn't
terribly original...
See <http://beamjockey.livejournal.com/66849.html>.

From time to time listings will appear on eBay claiming to be the 1st
edition of Clarke's "The Exploration of Space". For example:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260143467423
Invariably, they are the Book of the Month Club edition as can easily