Space Forum / Space History / April 2008

Just heard there's a major revision in the works and due in June.  Mark
Wade's fine.

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/04/07/plans-rocket-driven-bomb-to-chase-and-
wreck-plane/
The Germans did make a acoustic homing torpedo in WW II, and developed a
acoustic proximity fuze for their SAMs... but, AFAIK there never has
been a SAM that homes on its targets ...

Follow along and contribute your ideas with NASA's One-way Manned
Mission to Mars!
http://1way2mars.blogspot.com/

Apollo moon is winding down. Now lets imagine the shuttle had never
been built. NASA looked at it and decided its flight rate wouldnt be
necessary, so operations would cost too much.
So they looked at making some of apollo reusable, and other cost

Via Modern Mechanix again:
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/04/04/skyrocketing-to-mars/
Robert Condit seems to be aiming at Venus rather than Mars though.
Pat

Been a while since it was updated; anyone know why it's been so long?

what can be done reactivate that newsgroup again .. ?
servus
markus

Found by Dwayne Day: http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1093/1
Pat

The Strange Maps cartography blog shows an interesting perspective on
the moonwalks:
http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2008/03/24/260-youll-never-moonwalk-alone/
Also linked on my Live Journal at:

Yup, it's time for our domed city fix:
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/03/24/what-will-life-be-like-in-the-year-2008/
Then up to the donut space station hotel for a little R&R.
Pat

I found an old Starlog magazine with an article about the HBO miniseries From the Earth to
the Moon, and it mentions that the LM used in the mini was the one meant for Apollo 19.
Has anyone else heard this (or a similar) story?  Or did the producers just build a LM
interior set and ...

Why exactly is the Air Force interested in this thing?:
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g4ObtqVBGOx6m6ZZd3U3mSRT49jQD8VLFIEO0
Suborbital recon aircraft? Launch platform for some sort of ASAT weapon?

http://www.darkhorizons.com/news08/080402g.php
                OM

It's been slow here lately, so i'm posing a question that i've
wondered about for some time. when president kennedy set the time
limit for landing a man on the moon at 'the end of this decade', was
there ever any discussion as to whether that meant the end of 1969 or

[stream of consciousness]
I was wondering what kind of space station would be built to succeed
ISS, given that the orbiters would be retired and replaced by Orion by
then.