Space Forum / Space History / July 2008

Alan Erskine harassing people by phone
little boy dill weed Allan Erskinen
is a well known Australian
a.s psychopath.

    I finally got to watching the final _When We Left Earth_
episode -- well, most of it, because I only realized ten minutes into
it that it was on and that's when I set the Tivo to start -- and while
it did follow roughly the storyline I'd have imagined, some of the

From Modern Mechanix:
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/07/17/daring-men-in-seven-nations-aim-to-har
ness-giant-rockets/
The rocket on the second page of the article is interesting in that it
lands its passengers in a separable capsule lowered to earth by a

In "October Sky," there was a kid named Quentin, an anti-social super-
genius, who also went to work for NASA.  Does anybody know what his last
name was, and whatever happened to him?

What is with Dr Mark Lewis and Guy Norris continuing to propagate  in error
that the NASA Hyper-X scramjet powered vehicle was a wave rider?
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/06/blackswift-redu.html
Posted by: Mark Lewis | Jun 12, 2008 6:48:14 PM

http://www.launchcomplexmodels.com/Direct/index.htm
Comments?  Is there a point?  Will anybody who can even SEE NASA's
purse strings even see it or understand it?

...Question...Who Doesn't Deserve the Following Rights?
How many times have I heard it..."they" don't have a culture of
democracy!  Or...how dare we impose democracy on others?
The ultimate Orwellian doublethink, as imposing democracy  is

hai..
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First, Apollo as seen from 1964, with nifty illustrations (I can
remember reading this article as a kid):
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/07/08/man-to-the-moon/
Next, from 1949, a man declares he owns outer space:

...but what ever happened to Scott Grissom?  Considering how adament he was
that his father had been murdered, he's been awfully quiet.  I did a
webcrawler search and couldn't find anything recent (latest was 2003 about
the Gus' Mercury suit).

I say, bit of a sticky wicket with the old bang eggs.
In the James Bond Movie "Thunderball" the nuclear weapons on the Vulcan
bomber have "Nuclear Warhead - Handle Like Eggs"
written on them; this new MOD report indicates that might be a very wise

hai...
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I was looking at some cutaways of spacecraft, and am trying to figure
something out.
Both Gemini and Apollo incorporated significant cooling radiators in the
designs (external on the Apollo SM, mounted inside the skinning of the

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Surround yourself in gentle, whole-room blanket warmth with a Vornado
space heater.
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Over the July 4th weekend I was surfing t.v. channels ( I've got Dish
Network ) and came across this show " Moon Machines " on the Science
Channel.
Surprised I didn't see a discussion about the show here.  This is a