Space Forum / Space History / October 2007

Just like they do on the ISS!
Did anyone else have their bullshit detector go up in a puff of smoke
like mine did here?

Here it is, several weeks later, and I am no longer posting on Henry
Spencer's K6-2 Box. I just couldn't stand it anymore, and barring anyone
coughing up Henry Spencer's address so we can ship this thing to him,
we'll just be flying Orbiter with it, with a suitable graphics card.

I was digging around for a map of the Columbia debris finds and ran into
this interesting article with photos taken via IKONOS that showed fallen
debris: http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_id=305&trv=1
Pat

That flies to the Moon a 4,000 mph, at that:
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/10/17/station-moon/
Never heard of this one before, but flying a 100 pound V-2 knock-off to
the Moon with a 50 pound radio transmitter in it which is going to soft

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/18/418340.aspx
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21364355/
From that last one:
"Peggy Whitson, who recently arrived on the international space station

Fifty years ago, my former wife and I were guests
at a Soviet Embassy reception during which the
Soviet Union launched Sputnik.  I was a National
Academy Sciences' staff scientist for the IGY

As today is not tommarrow, yesterday is not today, the past is not the
future...

On 17 Oct 2007 23:23:25 -0700, baalke@earthlink.net wrote:

I read this on Wikipedia today: death of Astronaut Charles E. Brady, Jr.,
July 23, 2006.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_E._Brady%2C_Jr.

http://www.erichufschmid.net/Interview-with-Bart-Sibrel.html
       Like millions of people around the world, Bart Sibrel was fascinated
with the Apollo moon landing when he was a child. The walls of his bedroom
were filled with pictures of the Apollo moon landing.

Corrosion and faulty design: http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/print/5598
Pat

http://tinyurl.com/yuj9g6
(If that doesn't work, try
http://www.comedycentral.com/motherload/player.jhtml?ml_video=107304
&ml_collection=&ml_gateway=&ml_gateway_id=&ml_comedian=&ml_runtime=&ml_c

Apollo 12 was struck by lightning and the capsule went dead.
Apollo 13 had problems with a second stage (?) inboard engine.
Apollo 14 had some problems with docking.
Were any of them close to aborting their mission?  It might have been

I've been going over a lot of items I posted on the ABC News space page back
in 1997 to 1999, on Mir troubles and other space stuff, and ABC has long ago
purged its own data bases, and cycled so many employees through its website
that nobody knows where -- or even if -- any old ...

Does anyone think that "Coyote" is some reference to Roadrunner cartoons?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21253268/
Here's the report: http://www.nss.org/settlement/ssp/library/nsso.htm
And a PDF of the whole thing: