Space Forum / Space History / October 2007

Via Modern Mechanix:
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/09/29/what-ever-happened-to-the-manned-space
-stations/
Pat

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071003/ap_on_sc/space_race
""I personally believe that China will be back on the moon before we
are," NASA Administrator Michael Griffin said in a low-key lecture in
Washington two weeks ago, marking the space agency's 50th anniversary,

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=1487
First Contact: Sputnik
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
October 02, 2007

Lois Maxwell, who played Miss Moneypenny in 14 James Bond movies, died
in Fremantle Hospital on Sunday. She was 80.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/09/30/2047328.htm

more sputnik links from me...
added to my home page www.jamesoberg.com  links there already
Why watching that first launch was so terrifying
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/971/1

How about this AP story that reported that Apollo landed on the moon 22
years after sputnik?
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/science/20070930-1000-sputnikssecrets.html
Sputnik at 50: first space race won with scrounged rocket, improvised

Yeah, well, it -IS- only the BBC, so we ought to send in the C-team on this
one so they can get some
practice wiping up the sod with these moronic clowns...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6996121.stm

Oct. 1, 2007
Michael Cabbage
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