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Topic: Discover: The History of Space Travel
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collocation
Member Posts: 383
From: McLean, VA, USA
Registered: Feb 2004
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posted 09-19-2007 02:42 PM
   
On newsstands October 9, 2007:Discover Magazine Presents
The History of Space Travel Discover tells the untold stories of the race to the moon: the exhilarating, dangerous last minute fixes that saved missions in peril. The confessions of the Soviet engineer who launched the world's first satellite. The true story behind America's secret "black" space program. And an on-the-ground look at the rigors of astronaut training. All with more than 50 pages of stunning photographs, featuring recently declassified shots and some from NASA's archives that have never been published. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42981
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 10-06-2007 12:33 AM
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Originally posted by collocation:
On newsstands October 9, 2007
Though I've yet to see it at either Barnes & Noble or Borders, based on a tip from my sister in California, I found it tonight at Target.In addition to some really stunning NASA and Russian photographs, the magazine features a tear-out paper model of the Mars Exploration Rovers (printed on heavyweight paper) and a two-page spread about space memorabilia ("Space for Sale") that lists random space auction results from Christie's, Sotheby's and Swann Galleries. |
Mike Z
Member Posts: 451
From: Ellicott City, Maryland
Registered: Dec 2005
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posted 10-07-2007 01:19 PM
I believe this issue of Discover Magazine will be on the news stands on 9 October. It looks like it will be a good one. Sky and Telescope has already released a special issue about 50 years in space for $10 U.S. I was hoping some of the networks and cable networks would have something on this anniversary. All I've seen so far is one of our local television stations did a brief report and Jay Barbree was on the last 5 minutes of NBC's "Meet the Press" today with Tim Russert. He mentioned his book, Live From Cape Canaveral. Mike Z |
Gilbert
Member Posts: 1328
From: Carrollton, GA USA
Registered: Jan 2003
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posted 10-23-2007 12:03 PM
I picked up the magazine titled "The History of Space Travel" at the Atlanta Airport last week. It was published by Discover Magazine. On the cover is a child in a nostalgic space-suit costume. The magazine is worth buying but I was somewhat disappointed in the contents. |
rjurek349
Member Posts: 1190
From: Northwest Indiana
Registered: Jan 2002
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posted 10-23-2007 12:04 PM
Gilbert, I've seen that magazine on a couple of newsstands. It is a great cover! I've been meaning to take a peak inside. Will have to do so, now. You've got to love what the 50th of Sputnik has done for awareness. It will be interesting to see what the 40th of Apollo 11 brings... and it brings home to us now the distance in years between Sputnik and landing on the moon. Rich |
MCroft04
Member Posts: 1634
From: Smithfield, Me, USA
Registered: Mar 2005
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posted 10-24-2007 07:00 PM
I enjoyed The History of Space Travel very much, but I did see a few discrepancies. On page 57 when writing about behavioral problems of astronauts and cosmonauts the author writes that on a Salyut mission in 1978 "Russian cosmonaut Yuri Romanenko impulsively left the craft-with no tether-for an unauthorized space walk". Is this fact or fiction? |
lewarren
Member Posts: 269
From: Houston, TX, USA
Registered: Aug 2001
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posted 10-24-2007 08:29 PM
p15 Kathy Sullivan is misidentified as Sally Ride.p35 picture 10 Looks to me like Al Bean is CapCom in this picture. The caption could have also identified astronaut Dave Scott and Jim Irwin. |
Steve Procter
Member Posts: 1031
From: Leeds, Yorkshire, UK
Registered: Oct 2000
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posted 10-25-2007 03:01 PM
I understand Romenenko was on an authorised EVA with Grechko and was attached by a safety line. There was a report that Romenenko wasn't tethered and Grechko stopped him floating away, however it was later said that there was a line attached and that the report that Romenenko was in danger was Grechko's 'joke'. How true this is I don't know.Steve |
FFrench
Member Posts: 3161
From: San Diego
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 10-25-2007 03:11 PM
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Originally posted by Steve:
I understand Romenenko was on an authorised EVA with Grechko and was attached by a safety line. There was a report that Romenenko wasn't tethered and Grechko stopped him floating away, however it was later said that there was a line attached and that the report that Romenenko was in danger was Grechko's 'joke'. How true this is I don't know.
Yes, that is pretty close. Grechko noticed that Yuri Romanenko's second, surplus safety tether had not been connected. However, Romanenko was attached at all times by another umbilical, so was never in any danger of floating away into space. It's an anecdote that Grechko played up for a couple of years, but for the last couple of decades has played down and explained, as it started to be taken as truth and widely repeated - and, it seems, sometimes still is by magazines that don't thoroughly check facts.Here is an account from the NASA Monographs in Aerospace History Series publication "Walking to Olympus": quote:
For years Soviet spaceflight observers believed that mission Commander Romanenko, in his eagerness to look out the open hatch, nearly drifted free of the station, and that only quick action by Grechko prevented him from being lost in space. Grechko now denies categorically that his commander was ever in danger, and adds ruefully that “Yuri was very angry about the story.” Romanenko says that the story had its start in a “bad joke” Grechko told which was misunderstood, and adds that, even though his short safety tether was not secured, his electricity/communications umbilical firmly fastened him to Salyut 6.
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MCroft04
Member Posts: 1634
From: Smithfield, Me, USA
Registered: Mar 2005
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posted 10-25-2007 04:14 PM
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Originally posted by Steve Procter:
I understand Romenenko was on an authorised EVA with Grechko and was attached by a safety line. There was a report that Romenenko wasn't tethered and Grechko stopped him floating away, however it was later said that there was a line attached and that the report that Romenenko was in danger was Grechko's 'joke'. How true this is I don't know.
Thanks, and now I do recall reading this story somewhere. |
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