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Post by Sticks on Sept 24, 2005 1:27:56 GMT -4
It was quite understandable that they would prefer that the US's first sattelite should have nothing to do with VB, given his record as being an officer in the SS. If they had got their first, the achievement could be seen as being tainted by someone, that many felt should have been called to account at Nuremberg.
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Post by Sticks on Sept 20, 2005 3:55:28 GMT -4
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Post by Sticks on Sept 17, 2005 17:44:33 GMT -4
And what of justice ?
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Post by Sticks on Sept 17, 2005 15:34:35 GMT -4
There is still the issue of the slave labour camps.
On our side we did not resort to such inhumane practices. According to the BBC drama Von Braun did have some culpability with respect to the slave labour camps. He was never brought to book for that .
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Post by Sticks on Sept 17, 2005 13:44:00 GMT -4
is it connected with the film studio 20th Century Fox?
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Post by Sticks on Sept 9, 2005 14:53:56 GMT -4
Front Row on BBC Radio 4 reviewed this. The main comment was that they white washed Von Braun's war record. If you hurry and go to here you may be able to hear the review for yourselves
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Post by Sticks on Aug 28, 2005 17:43:49 GMT -4
I was watching the NASA archive footage from my copy of The Dish, and it referenced the crew of A11 being in a quarantine pod for a number of days
Who dreamed up that idea How long were they incarcerated Did the other Apollo crews have to be quarantined after A11
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Post by Sticks on Aug 15, 2005 15:15:13 GMT -4
I was wondering about the naming convention of the various rockets (and the capsules) from times past. The names of the shuttles I have seen done on spaceflight now, so it is not them I was wondering about. The ET and the SRFB of shuttle have "does what it says on the tin" names (UK readers should get that reference ) But where did Saturn come from, or Titan, or the Russian rocket names or the Arianne Did the US, Russian and ESA have set naming conventions or were they the whim of the chief project engineer? If you had the gift to name a rocket, what would you call it?
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Post by Sticks on Aug 4, 2005 11:13:02 GMT -4
8 - Round the back of the moon 10 - Dress Rehersal for A11
What about Apollo 7 and 9?
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Post by Sticks on Jul 24, 2005 0:13:45 GMT -4
I forgot about the Skylab missions Did they give number desiginations to those apollo missions, or were number designations only for the moon landings?
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Post by Sticks on Jul 23, 2005 17:58:46 GMT -4
Apollo 17 was the last Apollo mission to the moon, but what I wondered was if the Apollo mission in the 1975 linkup had a number designation, and was that Apollo 18?
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Post by Sticks on Aug 21, 2005 9:11:26 GMT -4
What I was getting at, and probably showing gross ignorance
Would the original NASA records give some indication of what the trajectory to Solar Orbit was
If that was known, would it be possible with a PC to calculate what the orbit should be, so an amateur astronomer could be able to point a telescope in that area.
After all this time is there anything that an ameteur radio astronomer could use to identify it.?
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Post by Sticks on Aug 20, 2005 4:44:45 GMT -4
I stand corrected I forgot about A13 and A9 But what about my challenge Can you guys out there locate the A10 Ascent module? Is there anything in the online NASA sources that would help us track it down. (I suspect NASA gets so much mail they would not respond to individual correspondence)
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Post by Sticks on Aug 20, 2005 1:51:30 GMT -4
Shameless bump
Anyhue as a number here are also on BA
The A10 AM was launched into solar orbit instead of crashing it onto the lunar surface. As a number here are also BA regulars, here is a challenge, see if you can locate the A10 AM.
How would we go about searching for this item. Remember this is for real, not a novel.
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Post by Sticks on Jul 15, 2005 6:22:20 GMT -4
This is not for a novel or story, (at the moment), I was wondering if we could do this for real.
As I mentioned before, as soon as you locate it, you maintain a tracking lock some how and send an unmanned probe that would attach itself to the ascent module and then use say an ion drive to bring it into Earh Orbit.
You then use the shuttle, (if it ever leaves the ground), to collect it and bring it home.
It would look great in the Smithsonian
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