Space Forum / Space History / September 2007

For reference, from:  http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/apollo_13_review_board.txt
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REPORT OF APOLLO 13 REVIEW ...

All week, followed by lavish and decadent Sputnik parties, all weekend.
You're all invited - I'm doing another Orbiter on a dinosaur install, so
you can all fly R-7 and Vostok sims between drinks and hors d’œuvres.
The main entrée is your vanity, of course.

    In the bookstore I ran across a facilities-history book that
I haven't noticed before, ``A History of The Kennedy Space Center'',
by Lipartio and Butler, University Press of Florida.  Has anyone got
a review or opinion as to its level of insight and revelations, and

I've recently learned that the *New York Times*, whose online archives
previously cost money to examine, has decided to make vast portions freely
available.
Everything from the paper's founding in 1851 to 1922 is free (these items

My girl friend called me yesterday morning. She wanted us to go see a
movie that evening. Something called “In the Shadow of the Moon”. I'd
never heard of it, and the title suggested it was a chick-flik. It
isn't. It's an Apollo documentary. Rather good, in fact.

With the recent 30th anniversary of the Voyager launches, I have been
trying to find the NASA animations that were used during the flybys. I
especially want to find the full 4-planet one of V2. I can't find
these at the NASA or JPL sites. Does anyone know if any NASA

Fotino is stuck in a lower orbit.

Moonwalkers still in awe decades later
BY MARTIN MERZER
mmerzer@MiamiHerald.com
On the 50th anniversary of the start of the Space Age, a new documentary is

102nd  Birthday of  E=mc2 (  27 Sep 1905- 27 Sep.2007)  Complete
tribute  in  book Einstein's E=mc2 generalized , www.ajayonline.us
                    E=mc2 was derived by given by Einstein on 27 Sep
1905 in Ann. der Physik

The Moon Man is drilling for water in a desert these days:
http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn12672-expedition-to-drill-ancient-
megalake-gathers-pace.html
I wonder what else you could drill for in Darfur?:
http://www.alertnet.org/thefacts/reliefresources/111885496661 ...

What would have happened if the Russians went to the moon first? Would the
space race have continued on? To what extent?

...Just got this in from Henry:
"Should someone note that I haven't showed up in sci.space.* in the
last couple of days, feel free to let folks know that it's not because
the bozos have chased me away -- it's because I've had a hard-drive

23 Minutes In Hell

    I know there were four N-1 launches of varying degrees of coming
near almost successful, and recall from various discussions that plans
on how to modify and launch a fifth test vehicle were under way when the
project was finally cancelled.  

Lost in Space --The Space Station's woes show what's wrong with NASA and
hints at how to put it right  //     http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/sep07/5481
ISScapades: The Crippling of America's Space Program By Donald A. Beattie;
Apogee Books, Burlington, Ont., Canada; 226 pp., US $23 ...