Space Forum / Space History / September 2008

Spacecraft was commanded to a destructive re-entry over the Pacific
today; both aircraft and ISS crew were able to observe the final
moments.
So far as I'm aware, Jules Verne was a complete success and the

With nifty photo:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/27/china.spaceexploration1
EVA suit design is very interesting.
The huge attachments to the backpack that go around the upper arms are

Running on Tuesday here in North Dakota:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sputnik/
Pat

Congratulations to the employees and management of SpaceX!

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/09/the_baikonur_cosmodrome.html
...Damn *sweet* shots. Wonder what Canon he was using?
                OM

...If you can afford $21M USD for a space flight, you can afford to
have an attorney look over all the fine print to make sure you don't
need to add an extra $10M USD for the Ruskies to overlook something as
unthreatening as a couple of f.cking kidney stones.

http://flickr.com/photos/73994672@N00/177876377/sizes/l/
                              OM
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...Russian space junk caught in the act, or Captain Kirk trying to
shoot space clouds again?
http://www.universetoday.com/2008/09/27/russian-space-junk-caught-in-the-act/
                              OM

I'm looking for specs on the ECLSS aboard the ISS.  If you can send me
to an appropriate link, or forward me to an appropriate newsgroup, I'd
appreciate it.  Thanks!

http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts126/080925pyrobolt/
Pat

As long as we are on the topic...Had a cystoscopy today looking for
some negative aspects of my heritage and past smoking.  For those
wondering a cystoscopy is a examination of the bladder by fiberoptic
(and "claw" if needed) via the outbound "aspect" of the urethra  Now

...A few of my OMBloggers have reported that the Houston news stations
are reporting that JSC is *seriously* in danger of being flooded by
the storm surge from Hurricane Ike. Jorge, has anyone out there where
you are said anything about this? And Sy, if you or anyone in that

It may be of interest to you folks that during the Concorde Prototype
flight test programme in the early 1970's we flew wearing a pressure
suit , pressure breathing oxygen mask, man mounted Oyx regulator ,and
emerg' supply bottle in our parachute pack. We did not pre-breath, but

1)    You get to pick and choose whatever news gets mainstream published.
2)    You get to select, modify and/or banish whatever gets recorded as
history.
3)    You get housed, clothed, transported, fed (laced with whatever