Space Forum / Space History / October 2007

Via Popular Mechanics:
http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,153186,00.html?wh=wh
Pat

Weakened RCC panels on the wing leading edge:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2007/10/10/national/a154829D
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This sound a bit familiar?:
"NASA spokesman Allard Beutel said the outer coating on three of the

              SECRET MILITARY Apollo Missions AFTER Apollo 17
     TO: Richard C. Hoagland, and Mike Bara,
              Authors of "Dark Mission", 2007

pls chk dis and comment on de design in NASA tech contest
http://createthefuturecontest.com/pages/view/entriesdetail.html?entryID=798

I was just watching the DVD of Apollo 17.  During launch, I heard Gene
Cernan tell the other two guys to get ready for staging and to hold
on.  shortly after, Evans and/or Schmidt was saying how rough the
event was.

hope someone can help. I'm looking to complete/bring upto date  my NASA
issued crew pictures, either officially issued glossies or litho's. I need
to following:
All of the ALT test Crew Pics

I knew about von Braun and General Medaris agitating for a Jupiter C
launch of a satellite in 1956. Someone was trying to tell me, last
week, that von Braun apparently conspired to put a satellite in orbit
in 1956! The Jupiter C was being used to do ballistic missile re-entry

Never did any Soviet Union or US "spacecraft" leave the orbit around
the Earth.
So what was the ultimate goal of the pyramid of lies known as Space
Travel? (1)

At my request, the IIT Contrails project, which is creating online PDFs of
U.S. Air Force R&D Documents, has just been kind enough to scan in this
report: "X-20A Full-Pressure Suit Quantitative Performance," Report Number
AMRL TDR 64-36.

COMRADE! What shall the future of Russian space efforts be?:
http://www.mnweekly.ru/national/20071018/55283485.html
Meanwhile, a new occasional feature in my postings - "Monkey
News"...news for and about monkeys.

I assume the first Muslim to be in orbit during Ramadan will not
be fasting - anybody know?

    The BBC News web site's Magazine includes an article titled,
optimistically enough, ``How To Build Your Own Sputnik'':
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7049002.stm
    While the discussion of what goes into a Sputnik box is

Today's reentry went ballistic, putting more g forces on the capsule
and its occupants. No explanations from the Russians on why this
trajectory was used. I surmise that it is not nominal to use such a
trajectory. Standing by for clarifications from Jim Oberg.....

When the NASA administrator was explaining at
length why we are planning to return men to the
moon, I don't recall this reason being mentioned.
...at all.