Space Forum / Space History / July 2008

From a CNN online article about Google Moon Prize:
by A. Pawlowski
".....a company that launches cremated human remains into Earth's
orbit, recently..."

Saw this on both space.com and my local news: Barbara Morgan, the first educator
Astronaut, is retiring from NASA and hanging up her spacesuit to take a job at Boise State
University, working with the State of Idaho on math and science education. Best of luck
to her in the new job ...

A designer of movie costumes in the films once said: "I designed the
clothes for a lot of beautiful women...but who was the most beautiful of
them?
I can't say.

I posted these a while back on my youtube channel
But here are the direct links to Part 1 and 2,  Dr. Werner Von Braun
explains the Saturn V rocket system and the potential for the 70's.
Total about 12:15 minutes watching time.   I DO SUGGEST YOU USE THE

....Is worth it for the strange cat photos alone; the cats look like
something from the H.P. Lovecraft universe the way he photographs them. :-D
http://up-ship.com/blog/
Yeah... you are in a strange forgotten church in Arkham, Massachusetts,

sock puppet Coward Allan Erskine
can't even hold his 2" wewe to
go wewe but he can wastes an
astonishing amount of time

I had long thought before Apollo it was widely agreed that the way to
get to the moon was through assembly or at least re-fueling in low
Earth orbit, and that it was Apollo's end-of-the-decade deadline that
resulted in the use of a single large launch vehicle (or, in EOR mode,