Space Forum / Space History / August 2008

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/news_space_thewritestuff/2008/08/more-rumblings.html
You just have to laugh at these people. So what is the current cost of
embarrassment nowadays, usually the executives take the money and run!
Two SRBs, and four RS-68s! That a Delta IV Medium for ...

She kenna take it any longer!
Engineering.

Even though I can't see the launch, all the very best.

From what I've gathered, it's looking more and more like a staging
recontact issue related to first stage engine shutdown behavior,
possibly exacerbated by the near vacuum of the staging environment.
The only other possibility would be complete staging failure related to

...is up on You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eGiqqoYP5E
It does indeed show roll oscillations, but it's hard to determine if
those are abnormal or simply if that's how the booster corrects its
ascent path... by letting it get a bit out of line and then correcting

...I'm x-posting this to rec.models.scale as well as to
sci.space.history. I've gotten a couple of RFIs from some OMBloggers
as to whether or not Airfix still makes the HO-scale Astronauts set
that was released around the A11 mission. For those not familiar with

Slight roll anomaly, looked like orangish flames from the engine.
And then it was gone. Damn. Space is hard.

#2  8-7-08
Bought 2500 of ticker mall late today at $8.02.
With a stop loss set at 7.85 Should've bought earlier.
Friday is usually a slow day, so I'm looking for a

#1  8-5-08
I think I'll share my stock trading activity for awhile with the
group. The goal is to demonstrate I can average a return
of at least 5% per week, every week.  I believe if I'm more

what what a couple of losers
little alan erskine and
little marty wallace & assoc.
are bucause they making

An alternative history scenario?
What if Apollo 4 and 6 had been disasters and it became clear that pogo and
other issues made a Saturn V flight before 1971 impossible?
What could have been done differently to adopt EOR and the use of Saturn IBs

    A friend pointed out to me a rather neat little site with
pictures of television coverage from several Gemini and Apollo
missions:
    http://www.squareamerica.com/is.htm

What future would he write? Or would you?
A future based on what is likely to occur
based on current facts and trends?
Or a future NASA ..should...have in an

    I haven't seen it mentioned but I have trouble believing that
it wasn't noticed: one of the paylods lost in the Falcon 1 failure
was a Celestis satellite including ashes from Mercury/Gemini astronaut
Gordon Cooper and Homeboys From Outer Space_/Knight Rider 2000 star

From Paleo-Future: "Space And National Security" from 1963, with video:
http://www.paleofuture.com/2008/07/space-and-national-security-1963.html
And a new searchable NASA internet image archive:
http://www.paleofuture.com/2008/07/nasa-and-internet-archive.html