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Topic: Perfect day...
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derek
Member Posts: 297
From: N.Ireland.
Registered: Jul 2002
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posted 12-04-2002 04:23 PM
   
Today began with the arrival of Duke's signed book,a Buran tile fragment,and Onufrienko's left Sokol training suit glove,and ended with my seeing Endeavour plus ISS flying in formation over N.Ireland!------------------
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andrewcarson
Member Posts: 349
From: Liverpool UK
Registered: Sep 2002
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posted 12-04-2002 04:51 PM
Derek,I`ve had a similar day, got a flown anti static bracelet (Mir), Leonov signed photo with date of mans first spacewalk, and two cosmonaut signed books.
Glad to see postman today he was`nt carrying any bills for once.!!!
Congrats on the additions to your collection.
Still waiting on postman for Schmitt, and Young.
See what tomorrow brings. Andrew |
Gordon Reade
Member Posts: 334
From: USA
Registered: Nov 2002
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posted 12-05-2002 01:26 PM
The only thing better then seeing Alpha docked with a shuttle fly overhead is to see a fromation flight of Alpha and a shuttle or Alpha and a Soyuz.A few months back I was out stargazing and I saw Alpha being trailed by a shuttle. It was just the coolest thing to see on followed by the other! |
Jake
Member Posts: 464
From: Issaquah, WA U.S.A.
Registered: Jun 2002
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posted 12-05-2002 02:06 PM
OK, yesterday was composed of watching the shuttle and ISS pass overhead, recieving a package with my Nick Procah custom model of the Dyna Soar on a Titan III inside, finding out - then purchasing "the Russians are Comming" on DVD, finding and purchasing "Full Moon" bood in the new smaller size, and getting a christmas card from an astronaut and his wife in the mail..... WAY BETTER than most days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!------------------
Jake Schultz - curator,
Newport Way Air Museum (OK, it's just my home) |
BLACKARROW
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posted 12-05-2002 06:10 PM
I've often seen the ISS (it reaches about 45 degrees above my local horizon) and I've seen the Shuttle several times, either alone or attached to Mir or the ISS. I haven't yet seen ISS and Shuttle in formation, but I very clearly remember seeing Skylab passing over, shortly after launch in May, 1973, accompanied by the S - II stage, the detached solar panel, and one or two other bright pieces of debris. One night I stood out in our back garden and watched a formation of Skylab objects passing over, then I went out 90 or so minutes later and saw them all again. Can anyone else remember seeing the "Skylab train"? |
Jake
Member Posts: 464
From: Issaquah, WA U.S.A.
Registered: Jun 2002
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posted 12-05-2002 06:33 PM
WOW, to see the Skylab and components!!! I'm jelous! I was just old enough to start getting interested in space during those missions but I am amazed how little there is out there to collect regarding Skylab? It is especailly cool that you can be over there in Belfast and see the ISS and a short while later have it visible here in the US.... it is a small planet!!!------------------
Jake Schultz - curator,
Newport Way Air Museum (OK, it's just my home) |
Gordon Reade
Member Posts: 334
From: USA
Registered: Nov 2002
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posted 12-05-2002 09:47 PM
I remember when Skylab's orbit was decaying and the press was making a big fuss about how it could drop out of the sky and kill you or distroy your house at any moment.A lot of people were really frightened, really scared. So someone started selling spray cans of "Skylab repelent". This is how it worked. You just sprayed a little around you dog, car, kids and anything else you didn't want hit by Skylab and Skylab would stay away. The guy who was selling this stuff was so sure that it would work that he guaranteed double your money back if it didn't. And it really worked!!!! I wonder if anyone saved a can of Skylab repelent? P.S. In case you are wondering, yes this all happened in California. |
rjurek349
Member Posts: 1190
From: Northwest Indiana
Registered: Jan 2002
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posted 12-05-2002 09:56 PM
Gordon -- Here's a good article from CNN on Skylab falling, as memories of those "panic" days came back during the MIR de-orbit.
http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/space/03/22/skylab/ Along with the repellent, I am wondering -- anyone got one of the Skylab hardhats? :-) I love the advertisement: Skylab is falling, and so are our prices. Priceless. Rich |
sts205cdr
Member Posts: 649
From: Sacramento, CA
Registered: Jun 2001
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posted 12-06-2002 12:07 PM
I can't go back to the Skylab falling days without remembering John Belushi's SNL Weekend Update skit! Still cracks me up...--John
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Rodina
Member Posts: 836
From: Lafayette, CA
Registered: Oct 2001
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posted 12-06-2002 12:17 PM
I also recall the San Francisco Chronicle's contest ($10K I believe) for the first person to bring to their offices a piece of the downed Skylab. Some Australian out in the desert found a piece of fiberglass and got on an airplane and won the cash. I think the Chronicle still has that piece in their offices somewhere.
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sts205cdr
Member Posts: 649
From: Sacramento, CA
Registered: Jun 2001
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posted 12-06-2002 12:21 PM
There's a ragged pressure tank on display at the USSRC (Huntsville Space Camp), as well. Remember that troll who posted here that he'd pulled off a piece of the fiberglass and wanted to know how much it was worth?Did anyone claim to find any pieces of Mir? --John |
tegwilym
Member Posts: 2331
From: Sturgeon Bay, WI
Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 12-06-2002 01:27 PM
I remember seeing Skylab pass over Seattle when I was little. I think I was about 6 or 7 at the time. Last night I saw the shuttle and the ISS pass over and tried some photos through the telescope of them. Not as good as my shots in October though.See here: http://www.geocities.com/tegwilym2/astrophotos/spacecraft/Shuttle_ISS_Dec5.jpg I also have my own small chunk of Skylab. http://www.geocities.com/tegwilym2/collection/artifacts/skylab.html |
nasamad
Member Posts: 2121
From: Essex, UK
Registered: Jul 2001
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posted 12-06-2002 01:45 PM
Hi all, I have just posted 3 pdf files on my site, they are all 3 parts of the NASA Skylab Re-entry Special publication. It consists of over 350 pages of press cuttings from around the world about the re-entry of Skylab. It totals to about 25mbs so I don't know how long I will be able to keep it on there for. Makes for interesting reading ! Happy collecting......Adam http://www.adboo.com/auto (added, Part 3 has the Skylab t-shirts and helmets !) [This message has been edited by nasamad (edited December 06, 2002).] |
Gordon Reade
Member Posts: 334
From: USA
Registered: Nov 2002
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posted 12-07-2002 12:21 PM
I don't think anyone found any part of MIR. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42981
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 12-07-2002 12:31 PM
There were quite a few "claims" of Mir parts: http://www.collectspace.com/mir/ The only semi-serious claim was published by the New York Times. The article "My Fiji Souvenirs: Shells, Driftwood, Space Debris" published April 24, 2001 is available for a fee from the NY Times website. Here's the free abstract: "John Wharton, computer chip designer, has made two trips to Fiji in past two weeks to comb beaches for debris from Mir space station; has collected about 100 odd pieces of polyurethane foam, many of them embedded with tubes." A quick search of the web shows that Wharton is a lecturer at Stanford University's Computer Systems Laboratory, so he should be considered credible... |
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