Space Forum / Space History / July 2009

Hooligan Shuttle never flies on time, costs Hero Space Workers their
hard-earned Rubles!:
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE56S4WV20090729
Pat

Just wanted to give a ' heads up ' about this new two hour special on
the History Channel.
http://www.history.com/genericContent.do?id=71504
No this isn't a re-run of the 1994 ' Moonshot '.

I think this has been discussed before, but the famous onboard film of
an S-IVB pulling away is said to have been from Apollo 6.  It shows
the S-IVB having three ullage motors.  However, I thought that the
S-IB version had 3 ullage motors and the Saturn V version had only 2

Wikipedia says Jim McDivitt would have been up for Apollo 14 LMP if
not for internal politics. McDivitt states in his NASA oral history
that "I had an opportunity to fly command Apollo 13," which
<URL:http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~oard/apollo/poss_moonwalkers.html>

...The closest a moon rock has ever come to going back home:
http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-072009a.html
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be fired by ground control?
I often wondered if there was ANYWAY apollo 13s LM could of been put
in heliospheric orbit

In honor of the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11, I spent the weekend
viewing youtube videos that assert that the moon landings were a
hoax.  But I was extremely disappointed at the quality of the
arguments presented, and I am rather surprised that they have people

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Escape_Systems
Gotta admit I had never seen anything about this.
Talk about a ballsy way to orbit.

At this point, I'm having trouble coming up with new thread subject
titles:
http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/news_space_thewritestuff/2009/07/ares-ix-launch
-delayed-ares-i-thrust-oscillation-problems-continue.html
I'll tell you one thing... when they get around to launching it I ...

Sounds like the Jupiter from Direct:
http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/2009/07/ares_v_ares_1_a.html
Pat

http://www.scifiscoop.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/ufo_itv_series_2.jpg
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http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,7289.msg63052.html#new
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...Egads:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1W8gJ1PkBw
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...So, I'm listening to NASA's replaying of the A11 loop tapes, and
just prior to 154;05:00, there's these weird noises coming across the
feed that sound like "cheering" and/or a party crowd. At 154:05:00,
the PAO g00ber comes on to say that a) no one has an explanation for

I just received a link to some of the historical pictures for Apollo 11.
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/07/remembering_apollo_11.html
Somebody recently asked if there were pictures of the S-IC/S-II staging.
Picture #14 captured this event, 55 miles downrange.