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6 years ago @ The Space Review: essa... - The Space Review: Blac... · 0 replies · +3 points

D-Day, do you ever wonder what number of 'The Recon Report' you're on now? It's been fascinating following your research over the years from clues, hunches, and hypotheses, through to this level of understanding. Thanks!

6 years ago @ The Space Review: essa... - The Space Review: The ... · 0 replies · +1 points

“It was like the Normandy invasion,”

No it wasn't. We'd have noticed. Shame for this bit of nonsense to feature in an otherwise excellent article.

7 years ago @ The Space Review: essa... - The Space Review: Why ... · 0 replies · +1 points

Update: it looks like the control software was fooled by an anomalous reading from a sensor, and then didn't have any reality-check routines to keep the engine running anyway. On the one hand, this looks on the face of it like the sort of thing that they should have picked up in their simulations before launch. On the other hand, by doing this all-up test mission, they get a much better idea of what actually belongs in their pre-launch simulations.
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2...

7 years ago @ The Space Review: essa... - The Space Review: Next... · 0 replies · +4 points

"The temperature hasn't changed at all."

Delusions like this are going to be what kills us off.

8 years ago @ The Space Review: essa... - The Space Review: Revi... · 0 replies · +1 points

I saw the exhibition and bought the book. It's rather more than a catalogue, and contains a lot of new material. Asif Siddiqi wrote some of it. The highlight, for me, is that one whole chapter is an account by Dzanibehkov of his experience of the epic Salyut 7 rescue mission.

8 years ago @ The Toast - An Annotated Map Of Th... · 0 replies · +3 points

I was born in Casterbridge and I endorse this post! Where's Edward Gorey when you need him, eh? ;-(

8 years ago @ The Space Review: essa... - The Space Review: Revi... · 0 replies · +1 points

PSB are going to be playing it at the Science Museum next year. Tickets on sale in 12 hours: http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/visitmuseum/Plan_...

8 years ago @ The Space Review: essa... - The Space Review: Revi... · 0 replies · +1 points

Might do, if I can find the time - though because I'm a professional historian, I'm reluctant to do a bodge job on it.

Chris Williams

8 years ago @ The Space Review: essa... - The Space Review: Revi... · 3 replies · +1 points

There's some good summary material on the history of the UK's various space programmes here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/timelines/zqjgk7h
Shorter: measured in terms of effort and turnover, and scientific progress, they only really took off in the 1980s.

BTW, on re-reading my message above it sounds a little combative, as if I was berating Jeff F for staying in London. I wasn't - I should have added 'Readers,' at the start to make this clear. Apologies.

8 years ago @ The Space Review: essa... - The Space Review: Revi... · 9 replies · +2 points

If you are so keen to see this that you make a special trip to the UK, why not spend an hour on the train and head north to Leicester? Our space museum has, among lots of other things (Blue Streak, Thor-Agena, Rogallo Gemini test article), an actual Soyuz 7K-OK. We normally have Helen Sharman's Sokol suit also.

Talking of UK cultural output . . . Jeff - are you planning to review the album 'Race into Space' by Public Service Broadcasting? I think it falls within 'Space Review's remit - and I suspect that it's clever enough that it would take a proper spaceflight history expert to spot and critique all the references in it.