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And if we really fear the darkness, if we really fight against it, then, for the good of all, let us take our rockets, let us get well used to the great cold and heat, the no water, the no oxygen, let us become Martians on Mars, Venusians on Venus, and when Mars and Venus die, let us go to the other solar systems, to Alpha Centauri, to wherever we manage to go, and let us forget the Earth....all that matters is that somehow life should continue, and the knowledge of what we were and what we did and learned: the knowledge of Homer and Michelangelo, of Galileo, Leonardo, Shakespeare, of Einstein! And the gift of life will continue.
-Ray Bradbury
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May 9, 2004 - THE MOON RACE - THIRTY-FIVE YEARS LATER
...new revelations, unanswered questions...
The Real Moon Landing Hoax! - the Soviet Union tried to be first to the moon - and key facts are still being covered up 35 years later!
The Podsadka Problem - what was the configuration of the still-secret spacecraft that provided an alternate way for the Soviets to beat the Americans to the moon?
Why did the Soviet Union lose the Moon Race? - the reasons the Americans were first on the moon - in the words of the the Soviet officials in charge of the secret program...
Moon Race! - ...the Americans vs the Russians, toe-to-toe...a side-by-side day-by-day chronology of the desperate struggle to be first on the moon!
Key Soviet Meetings! - blow-by-blow narratives of the secret meetings where the decisions were made on how to meet the Apollo challenge!
The Kamanin Diaries - ... the major source for the personal struggles of the men and women within the secret Soviet space program!
Chertok's Memoirs - ... the view from inside the technical and management belly of the Russian space program!
Mars 5NM - Mars 5M - Voyager - NO-NONSENSE Mars robot missions launched by N1 or Saturn V superboosters!
May 9, 2004 - New NASA Astronauts Named - but will they ever fly in space?
February 24, 2004 - Kliper - Soyuz replacement announced!
Manned Orbiting Lab! - ... the US military's station in space - in 1971!
December 7, 2003 - Nelson, Healey, and Chen Long join the ranks of the Phantom Cosmonauts
- plus - Astronaut Group Details!
November 24 2003 - DYNA-SOAR!, Robo!, Bomi!, Brass Bell! - space bombers of the fifties! - SAINT!, SAINT II! - US ASATS! - Space Launching System - visionary launch vehicle concept of 1960 that would have given the US an EELV 40 years ago... massive updates to Manned Spaceflight and Chronology sections... updates to Astronaut Records and Statistics and Women of space...
October 26 2003 - Von Braun's rockets of the 1950's - technical progress or public relations fraud?! - New Details on New Generation Chinese LV's - V-2 launches from The Hague - Believing in 'Buck Rogers' - Chinese astronaut biographies - Yang Liwei - Zhai Zhigang - Nie Haisheng
October 16 2003 - The flight of Shenzhou 5 - Shenzhou Facts and Trivia Which China-born astronauts have already flown in space? Is the Shenzhou a copy of the Soyuz? - Shenzhou - Military Spacecraft? What is the true mission of China's manned spacecraft?
October 4 2003 - Taming the Fire The story behind the scenes in the production of Russia's space history epic!
August 10 2003 - Russian Ballistic Missiles - the Secret History Revealed! - plus over 1,400 new entries - World Missiles, Sounding Rockets and Suborbital LVs, Sounding Rocket Launch Sites and Ballistic Missile Bases
April 25 2003 - Chinese Astronauts Revealed!
March 6 2003 - China's Space Programme...including the new Chang'e lunar probes, Chinese Space Laboratory, Shenzhou Circumlunar, and Long March New Generation, KT-2 and KT-2A launch vehicles! Plus updates to Chinese Moon Base Plans! - 921-2 Station scaled back - 921-3 Shuttle evidently abandoned-
Your Flight Has Been Cancelled..........the greatest manned spaceflights that never were...unfortunately updated in the wake of the Columbia tragedy...
January 11, 2003 - Cuxhaven The Unknown Spaceport... where from 1933 to 1963 forgotten rocketeers Zucker, Staats and Seliger launched the Zucker Rocket, Mohr Rocket, Kumulus, Cirrus I, Cirrus II, and Seliger Rocket to outer space.
January 1, 2003 - The complete National Intelligence Estimate of March 1967 covering CIA predictions of the Soviet moon landing program!
August 2002 - GNOM! - Only air-breathing ICBM ever developed!
Road to the Stars! - Did Kubrick steal from this film?
Space Cadet - the dream of space that died
The Space Explorers - how a Nazi film inspired baby boomers...
May 2002 - Superguns - A Brief History of the HARP Project
China's project to put a man in space - by 1973!
April 2002 - EPIC!! - Massively Updated - Soviet Space History!
The full story of Soviet Star Wars revealed for the first time!
March 2002 - The Soviet Union recovered an Apollo Capsule!
February 2002 - China's Space Program - Lunar Dreams
Your Flight Has Been Cancelled.......
...the greatest manned spaceflights that never were...
January 2002
Phantom Cosmonauts - Was Ilyushin first?
Almaz - the only manned combat spacecraft ever flown!
March 2001 - Over 5,000 new entries, including:
Soviet Manned Mars Expeditions
Gun-launched 5 inch and 7 inch Space Probes
Launch vehicles of a Larger Kind:
Sea Dragon -
Barbarian -
AJ-260
Today in Space History
Comprehensive History of Solid Rockets, by Andre Bedard
Apollo Odds and Mods
US Space Stations - by Marcus Lindroos
Space and Pressure Suits - from the X-1 to the Martian Surface
Soyuz - Untangling the Models
Projects Adam, 7969, Mer - and Mercury Mark I!
West European Space Stations
Spacecraft Families
Goddard's Rockets
December 2000 - Chinese Moon Base Plans!
921-2 Station - 921-3 Shuttle
Shenzhou Spacecraft - 1978 Spaceplane - 1949 Rocketplane!
Secret History of the Early Soviet Rockets! - The German role
KABOOM! Supergun Space Launchers !
South African Missile/Space Programs - RSA-4 ICBM
Chelomei's way to Mars: UK-700M - UR-900! - MK-700
Chelomei's Lunar Expedition: UR-700 / LK-700
Complete Redstone and Jupiter launch logs!
History of China's Manned Space Program
Soviet Spaceplanes Revealed - Buran - In Depth History
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