Space Forum / Space History / April 2008

(From The Spacearium, http://www.spacearium.com and reprinted with
permission)
JOHNSON SPACE CENTER, TX - It will take one to three months before
NASA knows what caused a series of problems during the re-entry of

WHAT'S NEW AT THE SPACEARIUM (http://www.spacearium.com)!
What's new for March and April, 2008
The Spacearium has stories and several gigabytes of video and photo
coverage of:

In 1968, Apollo 8 took the famous Earth Rise image; now the Japanese have
taken a much sharper image
http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2008/04/img/20080411_kaguya_02.jpg  Shows an image
of Earth Rise taken by a Japanese probe called Kayuga

"Moonlight Mile": http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1108/1
Would be better with a kid and chimp hiding out in the Shuttle aft
engine compartment. :-)
Pat

    There's a few books coming out from Springer Praxis concerning
the Soviet space program.  One is titled "Salyut - the First Space
Station: Triumph and Tragedy".  Does anyone know if it contains
anything new (particularly photographs), or is it the same, sad ol'

This looks like a subscale model of what the main "Blackstar" carrier
aircraft was supposed to look like, canards and all:
http://www.krqe.com/global/story.asp?s=8173339
Anybody got more info on this design?

What happened?
I seem to remember a lot of excitement a few years back about this
movie. Is David still working on it?
Oh, and Pat pass on my condolences to OM...

What if instead of our going with whatever's small, extremely cheap,
fast and rad-hard robotic, what if going with larger is nearly always
better?
Perhaps this new and improved topic of "Building Spaceships" for

Newsgroup acting odd on my computer; this is just a test message to see
what's going on.
Pat

    It's a small mention near the end of the article, but the
Onion AV Club has an interview with Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage
of Mythbusters, and they mention that ``we're inthe middle of doing
the Apollo Moon Landing hoax'':

I have now obtained my own copy of *Manned Spacecraft Operation*, a recipe
book for building Apollo, and found some interesting markings inside it.
See <http://beamjockey.livejournal.com/86918.html>.

In contemplating the *A.D.2063* book discussed on the Paleo-Future blog at
<http://www.paleofuture.com/2008/04/2063-ad-book-1963.html>, I was reminded
of another book General Dynamics put out.   But I can't remember the title.
It was published sometime in the late Eighties, and it ...

To complete its section of the ISS:
http://www.space-travel.com/reports/Russia_Needs_Billions_More_To_Complete_Its_I
SS_Segment_999.html
Of course it can afford to build a new space station of its own, though:
http://www.spacedaily ...

I kid you not; a plan to send monkeys on a one-way trip to Mars:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7341211.stm
(It's my "Paula Abdul On Mars" movie concept with "FU Gimp Chimp" moving
a little closer to reality.)

"...Quick update of sorts: they cut off the leg about 4" below the knee late
Tuesday afternoon. I slept most of Wednesday, and Thursday they put me
through some initial therapy exercises. I now have a wheelchair, and they
expect to get me into a fake leg in about 6 weeks or so, ...