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At least the Post Office Remembers by
Val Kraut
Just picked up sheet of stamps - half Project Mercury: Alan Shepard: First
American in Space and half Messenger Mission:First spacecraft to orbit
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Are any of the Soviet ABMs still active? by
Matt
Is there anything left operating of the Galosh system, which went
through several generations of interceptors?
Or are new nonnuclear interceptors (which I see...
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Minuteman Stage I nozzles - why four? by
Matt
I used to be in a MM III wing, but I can't remember this. On Stage 1,
why four nozzles for one engine? They were swileveled for control, but
why whould that...
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Search for snoopy by
Jeff Findley[_2_]
In article ,
says...
In sci.space.history message...
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Can You identify this Rocket? by
giantELF
Hello. I am trying to identify what kind of rocket this is:
http://public.iwork.com/document/?d=rocket_identification.key&a=p1339670446
I am working on a...
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Apollo rendezvouses by
Snidely
I've been looking at some of the Apollo lunar rendezvous footage on
Youtube, and was curious about a couple of things ...
1) the LM was the active partner in...
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Chinese Space Station by
T.B.[_2_]
launch of the first component is scheduled for Sept 29th.
http://news.sina.com.cn/z/tiangong2011/3D/index.shtml
T.B.
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UARS Is History by
Andre Lieven[_3_]
NASA confirms defunct satellite descended over Pacific
CTVNews.ca Staff
Date: Saturday Sep. 24, 2011 9:06 AM ET
A space satellite the size of a bus fell to...
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A sobering thought by
GordonD
Today, 19 September 2011, it is 15,401 days since the 'Eagle' landed on the
Moon.
The significance of that number is that the touchdown at Tranquility Base...
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UARS seen on video by
Pat Flannery
The falling satellite was caught on video by a amateur astronomer in
Britain; the video shows it is...
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S-IVB question by
GordonD
There's a classic piece of footage showing an S-IVB stage separating from
the rest of the stack and lighting up its engine. This appears to be from a
Saturn...
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Atlas-Able failure by
Pat Flannery
Atlas failures are always fun to watch, but this one is particularly so,
as fire starts coming out where it shouldn't at the base of the first...
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Apollo 11 question by
GordonD
I'm currently rereading 'Flight', the autobiography of Chris Kraft. In his
description of the Apollo 11 landing, he quotes Charlie Duke's famous
response to...
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Apollo IB SA-210 on the pad by
Brian Reynolds
I haven't peeked in here for a while, but I thought there might still
be people here who would be interested in this.
Ctein is a photographer, writer, and...
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Progress accident cause found by
Rusty Shackleford
On 9/13/2011 10:02 AM, Fred J. McCall wrote:
bob wrote:
all of which to end US spending on manned space
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September 18th 11 11:30 AM
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KH-9 at NASM by
David Lesher
There was a one-day showing af a KH-9 {Hexagon, aka Big
Bird} at the NASM parking lot at Dulles. The best part was
eavesdropping as there were multiple folks...
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Military alternative to Mercury capsule by
Pat Flannery
I was digging around on the National Reconnaissance Office's collection
of declassified documents:
http://www.nro.gov/foia/declass/collections.html
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