Space Forum / Space History / June 2008

In the first few minutes, the X-15 was mentioned and footage was
shown. The VO intoned the reasoning behind the X-15 was "...NASA
wanted to get into space and they were in a hurry...".
Well,  the X-15 was as I'm sure you all realize a research aircraft

On of the last original members of WvB's Peenemunde team has died:
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=1291
If the name doesn't ring a bell, one of his ion-powered spaceship
designs almost certainly will:

How can black holes be "seen" when they are , in fact,
invisible?.www.superslim3.blogspot.com
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They think the faulty explosive bolts that caused the service module
separation problems on Soyuz TMA-10 and 11 are also on TMA-12:
http://uk.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUKL2382559920080523
If that's the case, then the crew probably has at least a 10% chance of

Sorry for my poor english, i need some help of fan of apollo program,
I have a friend writing intenet history on apollo program, it search a
history nasa document
on crew assignement and date of apollo program, apollo 8 (mainly) and other,

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I'd put larger diameter wheels on it, but it's a interesting concept:
http://dvice.com/archives/2008/06/moonstream_mars.php?p=2&cat=undefined
Pat

*clink of many glasses, 7 times 7 in honor of the Columbia astronauts,
followed by one for the Challenger astronauts*
you know how it goes.... garbage-in, garbage-out, and, when it is
stuck on top of the queue, last in, first out!

....are back again, via Modern Mechanix:
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/06/06/coast-to-coast-in-40-minutes/
The airliner design doesn't look too far out*, although one would almost
expect extensible nose canards on it to shorten the landing distance.

...during the latest launch; inside of the flame trench got torn up by
the exhaust blast:
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts124/080601pad/
Looking a lot like the eruption of Mount St. Helens, here's debris from

I've tried Googling with no success: does anyone know the current
altitude record for a single stage vehicle?
Nicholas Hill

http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/2008/05/jsc_gets_its_ow.html#more
That damn woman...that damn _Bush_ woman.
This could destroy the entire impeccable tradition of the NASA PAO
having no political agenda whatsoever. :-D

Oberg is reporting the toilet is not doing all that well.
Better then these <http://dir.salon.com/story/tech/col/smith/2002/10/03/askthepilot13/>
guys but......

Then I realised that this image:
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/230122main_false_color_postcard_edr.jpg
was "false color" - I had to take a second look though.

In his interesting article in The Atlantic (June, 2008) Gregg
Easterbrook emphasizes the threat of asteroid impacts on Earth by
saying, “Wouldn’t shifting NASA’s focus away from wasting money on the
Moon and toward…deflecting dangerous space objects…” be more likely to