Space Forum / Space History / December 2008

NASA chief's wife begs Obama, "please don't fire my husband"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081231/ap_on_re_us/nasa_chief
It could mean an end to furs, caviar and exotic trips?

Well, at least she didn't try to kill a fellow astronaut's girlfriend:
http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=frances-first-woman-in-s
pace-hospit-2008-12-24
"On the ISS, she helped swap out an emergency Soyuz spacecraft that's
always docked at the station in case ...

    With talk of adapting the Space Shuttle Main Engine design to
Ares V use I'm left wondering about previous examples of engines that
get designed for one rocket and get used by different rocket lines.  
    I'd imagine that it happens a great deal that a particular

    ... or at least planned ones, from the clip-art comic The New
Adventures Of Queen Victoria:
http://www.gocomics.com/thenewadventuresofqueenvictoria/2008/12/28/

Steve Lindsey - Astronaut Liar.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/6174490.html
Quating Steve Lindsey - NASA Liar : "NASA spent several years studying
architectures and researching every available commercial rocket"

What will LHC give us: the particle of God, or magnetic trap of Devil?
Magnetic trap is an axial-symmetric magnetic analogue of a black hole.
It is 10^36 stronger than gravitational black hole.
CERNs specialists do not know about the magnetic trap yet. If

This may be a bit tricky in phrasing, but how independent can Shuttle,
Soyuz or planned Orion landings be from the ground? What I mean is can
any/all be brought to a reasonably assured safe return from undocking
with ISS to touchdown with NO imput from any control center- with just

Florida Today Kisses Obama a.s :
http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20081228/OPINION/81226029/1006/news01
We want our cushy jobs guaranteed for another generation, with
guarantees that we will never have to produce anything of value for

http://www.examiner.com/x-504-Space-News-Examiner~y2008m12d20-Cosmonaut-says-spa
ce-radiation-is-causing-him-to-go-blind
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Until now, only MEN were on the moon, no women. This is because women
don't have a "rocket" between their legs and that means women have no
penis.Without a penis, you can't land on the moon.
Women need a penis before they can conquer space.Without a penis, no

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Looks like the airbag system for landing on land is out, the latest
video shows an expensive Apollo-style splashdown. Also the Altair
ascent stage looks mighty smaller as they leave the airlock behind
when they take off from the lunar surface.

I had the foresight to save a lot of material I collected in the 1960s
and 1970s dealing with NASA's manned spaceflight programs. It seems to
me that the information in those sources is much more accurate than
newly-written articles. I figure this is also applicable for any

Toledo, New Castille. March 1492.
Today Don Miguel de Grifo, the head of the Royal Transatlantic
Exploring Administration made the eagerly awaited announcement as to
how the Administration would pursue Their Majesties’ Vision for

The most important Apollo mission of them all launched 40 years ago
today.