Space Forum / Space Station / January 2006

Astronauts and Area 51: the Skylab Incident
by Dwayne A. Day, Monday, January 9, 2006
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This secrecy was threatened in early 1974 when the astronauts on Skylab

Space Review has had a two part article on using Medium lift to use EOR
to assemble a Lunar or Mars mission.  And I was wondering if it was
possible to design the TLI or TMI stage to be made up of multiple
smaller stages that fire and drop off as you go.  Instead of trying to

Random Notes on Leonov's Side of the Moon - for discussion with colleagues
Jim Oberg (www.jamesoberg.com)
August 12, 2005
Ramblings inspired by the book, "Two Sides of the Moon - Our Story of the

I just surfed past NASA TV and caught 30 seconds or so of video/narration of
a inadvertently cut umbilical cable on the transporter.
Anybody have any background details?
Thanks

Msnbc.com (Oberg): Russian space city builds new route to heavens
New church in once-atheist Baikonur readies for Orthodox Christmas
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10729300/
By James Oberg, NBC News space analyst // Special to MSNBC

What is the normal alignment of the space station in relation to the
earth and the sun? Does maintaining this alignment require expending
transported materials? Thank you for an answer to satisfy my
curiosity.

According to information from Russia's Mission Control Center,
the International Space Station on December 31 will enter and
depart from the year 2006 fifteen times before settling
permanently into the New Year. See http://mcc.rsa.ru/

Anybody recall ever seeing images of religious icons aboard ISS or Mir?
Can you provide URLs to such photographs?
Thanks!