Space Forum / Space History / October 2007

It kinda fell out the news, I was wondering if the Hyper X Program had
a third flight, mach 10 or abouts?

Since posting to sci.space.tech seems to be a no-op...
Been wondering... Rocket engine turbopumps must need quite a bit
of power. Where does it come from ?

Seeing as how we're aiming to get *back* to the Moon by reinventing
Apollo, all in just another 13 years or so, today's new Onion is about
on the mark. FROM http://www.theonion.com/content/node/67854
NASA Announces Plan To Bring Wi-Fi To Its Headquarters By 2017

Anybody have some good links to the all trade studies done by NASA to come
up with the Constellation program. I'm interested in see what options NASA
looked at as far as different scenarios that were studied to come up with
the Lunar part, specifically the economic impact studies ...

My last question got a lot of replies, so let's try this one.
If Apollo was on it's way home, and it took 3 days to get here, how
important was good weather?  It's hard to know what's going to happen
3 days from now.

A German at the other end of the trajectory for once.
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/10/08/new-british-airmail-rocket-successfull
y-passes-initial-test/
Pat

I've read that the Russians managed to mount and test-fire an anti-air
cannon aboard Salyut 3, as part of a military project called "Almaz".
Can anybody tell me more about this?
Specifically, I'm interested in how they got the thing to fire in a

Weird sh.t that must make the shade of Fred Hoyle cackle with glee!:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20960121/
DO NOT EAT SPACE FOOD IMPORTED FROM CHINA!
TOXIC LEAD PAINT COVERED "DORA THE EXPLORER" DOLLS WERE ONLY STEP ONE OF

http://www.ng2000.com/fw.php?tp=space-history
10/05/2007: Japan, which has celebrated moon-viewing for over a thousand years, now has a new way to do it. SELENE, the first Japanese satellite to orbit the moon, is billed as the most ambitious lunar mission since NASA's Apollo ...

Here is an odd thing I remember reading somewhere and can not find
again.
During the high altitude testing at White Sands with V-2s , there was
an experiment creating 'Artificial Meteors'(I am not sure what was

According to an article in today's Providence Journal of Rhode Island.
Seems that the Russians were working on some nuclear warheads, but hit a
technical snag in that project.  The rocket launchers were ready,
though.  And some space scientists there wanted to use on of the

Somebody sent OM some really amazing shots of the EVA to work on the ISS
truss from the Endeavour flight; the link is here:
http://www.texasjim.com/NASApix/NASA%20pix.htm   *
It's pretty large to download as  it has a lot of photos of pretty good

Speaking of Sputnik, a friend told me about this:
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-mZ9pKvCmk>
Vu Trong Thu in Hanoi created a music video for Leslie Fish's
classic filksong "Suprise!"

http://www.kommersant.com/p-11433/Fotino_landing/
Hundreds killed.