Posted by Ray Katz in current, moon
A Hindu Moon
The NY Times has an interesting piece about India’s moon mission and Hinduism.
Posted by Ray Katz in current, moon
The NY Times has an interesting piece about India’s moon mission and Hinduism.
I can understand getting butterflies before a launch, but the next space shuttle mission will have butterflies in the launch vehicle. The upcoming November 14th shuttle mission will have a bunch of “Painted Lady” butterflies aboard. The butterflies are black, white, orange and grey, and will be studied for the effects of zero g on [...]
I had a correspondence with H. D. McDaniel, a man who worked at the Cape in the early sixties and beyond. He worked in “Launch Sequencing” which is monitoring preparations and activities up to (and including) the launch of a space vehicle. This is a pretty obscure area. Even as a space buff, I really [...]
India plans manned space missions. They are still some years away. (Their actual spacecraft is still under development.) But they are busy naming their future space explorers: both selecting them, and deciding what they will be called. First, selection. The initial group of Indian astronauts will be four fighter pilots. They are looking at a [...]
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