Space Forum / Space History / April 2008

First it was the Mechanix Illustrated article from 1957 about slave
robot butlers and cooks in our homes by 1965:
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/04/10/youll-own-slaves-by-1965/
Now comes a MI article from the same year of 1957 about rocket mail

Another article from Modern Mechanix:
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/04/12/photographing-stars-with-a-rocket/
Very prescient; one of the first uses of sounding rockets was to get
solar spectra from above the atmosphere, and Dr Goddard also discusses

Russian girl, Italian astronaut...sounds like a 1960's Italian sci-fi
movie..."Paolo On The Prowl"? ;-)
http://www.mnweekly.ru/national/20080214/55310006.html
Pat

For those interested in the history of British rocketry
http://www.spaceuk.org/index.htm - great stuff on many programs.

Practicing for a BushWhack !!!   Pass it on.
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Sons of Liberty Militia

Which space shuttle mission was the first to carry legal tender
American coinage as an official part of its cargo?
Where are those coins today?
JTM

New images from MRO: http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/phobos.php
Pat

Otto Binder shows us the future as seen from 1957...even "Magnus, Robot
Fighter" didn't have as odd of things in it as the two shown in the
illustration, which would have fit right into "The Fifth Element":
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/04/10/youll-own-slaves-by-1965/

Lunar base modules striding around the landscape on the backs of giant
robotic insects.
Tomorrow is today at JPL:
http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn13590-giant-robots-could-carry-lunar-bas
es-on-their-backs.html

Reading the early history of US satellite programs, one finds the
Eisenhauer administration expressing much concern about establishing
the legality of US spysats flying over the Soviet Union.
Why did Eisenhauer et al. worry about this so much while at the same

Squadron Shop has got the Glencoe Models Jupiter C rocket and von Braun
Ferry Rocket kits back in stock, if anyone is interested in building
them: http://www.squadron.com/ItemDetails.asp?item=GM05103
http://www.squadron.com/ItemDetails.asp?item=GM05908

I thought I saw recently somewhere a plan to use a laser to put ads on the
moon.  Is that really possible?  Seems like the power levels required would
be prohibitive, or at least dangerous to anything passing through the beam.
Should some group decide to such a thing, I wonder how ...

We have had the first woman in space, the first woman pilot, the first
woman commander, etc.
Will the next Soyuz journey be the first space journey for which the
(non-zero) male component has been outnumbered by the female component?

Put a sign in the toilet for our English speaking tourists. Double-check in the dictionary to make sure you use the right words!
http://www.hipcow.com/p/0018/bathroom_sign/

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