Space Forum / Space History / September 2007

I was really surprised how quickly I was able to identify and reproduce
the Henry Spencer Effect, after just a couple of weeks into the project.
For those of you unfamiliar with this amazing effect, it's the breakdown
of obsolete hardware and software systems under the burden of ...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070918/sc_afp/peruhealthoffbeat
Space debris with hydrazine in it?
Emerging volcano?
Martian invasion?

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"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...

The Bay Area press is beginning the publicity drumbeat for a play by actor
Bill Pullman ("Independence Day") that is supposed to be
based on a real spaceflight drama, a "staged docudrama". It is to premier
Sept. 15 at San Francisco's Magic Theatre.

Watching From the Earth To the Moon again got me thinking. The suits that they
wore on the Apollo missions were so bulky and complicated, they needed a crew on
earth to help them get them on. So how did they, while in space and in the
cramped confines of the command module, manage ...

http://www.buran.ru/htm/history.htm
There are some interesting stages in the evolution of the Energia/Buran
design, the OS-120 resembling the American Shuttle in having three main
engines but additionaly having two small (solid?) engines on either side

I feel your pain, Henry, I really do.
I know exactly what you are talking about. If you can get Debian to run
on this f.cking thing, more power to you. I can see why those Eastern
European guys are buying up all of the last remaining K6-2+ processors.

This is real trivia, but here goes anyway.
Up until about 1960, US bomber planes all seemed to be named B-n,
where n took an integral value greater than for the previous plane.  n
got to be as large as 70.  Then suddenly n dropped to 1 and we got the

The recent discussion of Lunar Orbital Speed mentioned the lunar
mascons, and got me wondering: have mascons been found in other solar
system bodies? As I recall the prevaling theory was that the mascons
were due to later period bombardment, after the main formation period.

Rober Murdoch, owner of News Corporation, along
with a myriad of film, tv, print and online corporations
including Fox News, has announced plans to
become carbon neutral by 2010. This is more

Our Heavenly Mother says,
"Granted, over the years mankind
has succeeded in greater aspects of
inventions, but they have not reached

earth orbit is around 17,000 MPH.
The moon is smaller with less gravity.  Does this change the speed
much?

Russia plans manned Moon mission by 2025
MOSCOW (AFP) - Russia plans to send a manned mission to the Moon by 2025 and
wants to build a permanent base there shortly after, the head of Russian
space agency Roskosmos said Friday.

In the 1998 HBO series, "From the Earth to the Moon", the following is
depicted in the segment entitled 'Spider', about the design and construction
of the LEM. A Grumman employee whose name escapes me tells another to
document EVERYTHING on film (16mm I think).