Space Forum / Space History / August 2008

Chronological illustrated history of their development:
http://history.nasa.gov/MHR-5/contents.htm
You think it was tricky to land a Gemini under a parawing?
Try this on for size: http://history.nasa.gov/MHR-5/Images/fig032.jpg

Jeff Hanley : No we are committed to Ares 1. We have made tremendous
progress to make it a workable system. Options that we have looked at
recently are flight test vehicles we might use to gain experience with
certain parts of the system. We have looked at concepts for variants

#4   8-13-08
Just after selling ticker arex late today, bought 1850
shares of ticker swc (Stillwater Mining)  at $6.93.
Should've bought it yesterday. Looking for $8.20 ish

Condom small, knickers huge, wife angry and out for revenge.  :-D
http://uk.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUKSP4651220080813
Sounds like a nifty saying, doesn't it?
"Why, that meal was the very 'Tart's Knickers', wasn't it?"

Chuck Longton (Direct 2.0) Hates America For Its Freedoms!
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=13631.msg307451#new
Quoting Chuck Longton on NASASpaceFlight.com:
"There are thousands of American servicemen who have sacrificed their

Interesting Orion capsule pics. (Not full scale ;-) )
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/multimedia/images/2006/orionmodel.html

During all the Lunar Apollo missions, the panels of the SLA (Spacecraft
Lunar module Adaptor) were jettisoned from the S-IVb during the T&D
(Transposition and Docking); but, as the panels were travelling along the
same trajectory as the rest of the spacecraft, did any of the ...

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/news_space_thewritestuff/2008/08/russian-invasi
o.html
If we aren't going to be able to get to it after Shuttle retirement, we
may want to stop building it right now.
But you just watch... Shuttle retirement will get pushed back instead.

John Bull, a former NASA astronaut who due to illness was forced to
resign while supporting what would become the first crewed mission to
the Moon, died August 11 at age 73.

This _has_ to be a multinational government program.  :-D
You've got to admire restroom floors with "No Step" warnings on them:
http://abyss.uoregon.edu/~js/images/ISS_restroom.jpg
That sort of defeats the concept of a "floor" doesn't it?

# 8-11-08
Bought 1500 ticker arex late today at $14.19.
With a stop loss set at $13.75
Looking for $16.5 by middle/late this week.

...For those wondering why I've been rather quiet the past week or so,
last Saturday morning I suffered a bit of a gastrophoresis attack -
nausea, uncontrollable vomiting, bad sweats, *no* diarrhea - and wound
up having to get EMS'd as I couldn't maintain stability enough to get

I'm heading out to Jacksonville FL this Sunday for 2 weeks. I want to run
down the coast to KSC for the weekend in the middle.
Keeping in mind a somewhat limited budget, I'm hoping you folks can steer
me to the best things to see while I'm there. Definitely want to see the

...seems to me to have been somewhat under-celebrated today on their
website.  An article here, a video there.  Now, when we hit the 50th
anniversary of Sputnik last October, NASA put a "pre-webpage" in front of
their website for just one day that was just plain cool.  So cool, that ...