space history
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Vostok Mission -- 50th Anniversary
Vostok, Gagarin, and the Origin (and Persistence) of the “False Baikonur”
NPR's Krulwich Ignites Gagarin/Soyuz-1 controversy (see comments)
Elliott Gould Narrates "Ilyushin Was First" Conspiracy Crockumentary
Excerpts from Jim's Discoveries of Photo Forgeries Around Gagarin
THE authoritative history of the Vostok mission (Siddiqi's "Challenge to Apollo")
Chapter Seven: Gagarin (pp 243-298)
08/01/2008
- MORE ON
THE NEW JUDICA-CORDIGLIA CLAIMS
3/1/2007: WHY I DON’T
BELIEVE THE CLAIMS OF THE JUDICA-CORDIGLIA
BROTHERS
1/1975
- Space World Magazine: Phantoms
of space - The secret dead Russian Comsonauts
Why the world still remembers its first spaceman
Celebrating Gagarin's Anniversary (Jim's 1991 Essay)
Russian TV: "Cosmonaut Nelyubov: He Could Have Been First"
What We Knew About the Mission in 1981 ("Red Star in Orbit")
Jim gets closer to a flown spacecraft |
Inside the spacecraft, plenty of room even for Jim |
Jim visits the capsule at an undisclosed location near New York City |
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Fiftieth
Anniversary – Birth of the Space Age
A series of major articles on aspects of the half-century
mark in the Space Age.
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| Finding the Deleted Cosmonauts |
08/25/2012, NBCNews.com // Nine myths about Neil Armstrong Much of what was reported is accurate, and much is wrong — some is just plain silly |
| 08/25/2012 -- Moslem Armstrong moon myth |
| Feb 20, 2012 -- ADVISORY -- John Glenn anniversary |
| 04/11/2011 - The Space Review: Review: Fallen Idol: The Yuri Gagarin Conspiracy |
| 06/21/2010 - MSNBC: Rachel Maddow show |
| New 'Challenger disaster' amateur video |
| 07/24/2009
- MSNBC.com: Unraveling
Russia’s moon riddles |
| 07/20/2009
- MSNBC.com: That’s
one small misstep for most moon tales |
| 10/30/2008
- John
Glenn Space Reflight Ten-Year Anniversary |
| 03/2008 - SPECTRUM: book review: 'Energiya-Buran' -- Copying NASA's Mistakes |
| 10/04/2007 - Ad Astra: Sputnik's
Space Age Legacy for Humanity |
| 08/07/2007
- MSNBC.com: Human
failings serve as NASA wake-up call |
| 05/14/2007
- MSNBC: A
tale of two rockets ... with a happy ending |
| 05/14/2007
- TheSpaceReview.com: The
Mercury 13: setting the story straight |
| 05/12/2005
- MSNBC.com: Apollo-16
"dish UFO" image identified |
| 04/12/2007
- MSNBC.com: Film
finds fresh "Wonder" in moon tales |
| 03/29/2007
-- Fireball
fears stoked by space history |
| 3/1/2007: WHY I DON’T BELIEVE THE CLAIMS OF THE JUDICA-CORDIGLIA BROTHERS |
| 02/08/2007
- MSNBC.com: Veteran
NASA doctor says agency must do more [re: astronaut
job stress] |
| 01/27/2007
- MSNBC.com: NASA
must fight the forgetting |
| Winter/2006
- ROBOT Magazine: A
History of Space Robots (and Arms) on Other worlds |
| 12/22/2006
- MSNBC.com: Northrop
Strip shuttle landing field -- a personal memoir |
| 12/22/2006
- MSNBC.com: "White
Sands Space Harbor -- A Dusty Corner of History" |
| 10/22/2006
- NASA Space: NASA's
Newest [and oldest] Flight Control Room |
| 04/2006
- IEEE Spectrum: "When
two spacecraft meet, they rely on Vladimir Syromyatnikov" |
| 03/24/2006
- MSNBC.com: ArabSat
bites the dust, dashing hopes |
| 03/08/2006
- MSNBC.com: Mars
orbiter faces NASA’s ‘Ghoulish’ past |
| 03/06/2006
- MSNBC.com: Blackstar:
Did Pentagon create orbital space plane? |
| 03/06/2006
- The Space Review: Cronkite
on space: inspiration, not information |
| 02/17/2006
- MSNBC.com: Records
offer rare look at space medical secrets |
| 07/18/2005
- The Space Review: “ASTP
+ 30 – Real Lessons” |
| 02/23/2005
- MSNBC.com: “The
unsung astronaut (Robert Lawrence) |
| 02/07/2005
- The Space Review: “What
does a sick "space safety culture" smell like?” |
| 12/2004
- Flight Journal: “TO
THE MOON AND BACK (Flying the LM)” |
| 10/11/2004
- MSNBC.com: “Spacecraft
designer Max Faget leaves a huge legacy” |
| 08/20/2004
- MSNBC.com: Buffs
Cling to Faded UFO Camouflage Stories |
| 07/19/2004
- MSNBC.com: Secret
Ingredient in the Case for Manned Moon Flight |
| 07/16/2004
- MSNBC.com: NASA
Awards Moon Rocks to Astronauts |
| 07/06/2004 - MSNBC.com: Cosmonaut Nikolayev's
Body Reported
Hijacked By Politician |
| 04/2004
- Air & Space: Old-Timers
Advice for New Spaceships |
| 11/21/2003
- MSNBC.com: Russia's
Secret: Space Station Nearly Died The Day It Was Born |
| 11/2003
- Air & Space: Inflatable
Reentry Vehicles - Past and Future |
| 09/22/2003
- MSNBC.com: Strange
journey of a lunar rock |
| 04/2004
- Skeptical Inquirer: Lesson
of the "Fake Moon Flight" Myth |
| 3/2003
- Skeptical Inquirer: “Lessons
of the 'fake moon flight' myth” |
| 10/31/2002
- NASA
Hires Writer to Debunk Apollo Theory |
| 06/2002
- Flight
Journal: "Soyuz 5's Flaming Return" |
| Area
51 and Gordon Coopers "Confiscated Camera" |
| 03/22/2001
- CNN: Oberg
to ride Mir mockup to simulated destruction |
| 2001
- How Mars Missions
Fail -- And How To Prevent It |
| 06/2000 - Review of Haimoff's "The Cosmonaut Coverup" |
| 04/2000
- All-Woman Shuttle
Crew Proposal Nixed . UPI |
| 02/2000
- Space sex hoax
rises again |
| 04/1999
- Secrets
of Soyuz |
| 03/31/1999
- Purdue University (speech): The
STS-48 "Zig Zag UFO" -- A Prosaic Explanation (large 12mb file - smaller version coming soon) |
| 09/1998 - ASK.com: Were
Living Bacteria Found on Retrieved Surveyor-3 Part? |
| 05/1998: Shuttle
astronaut threatened suicide? |
| 03/10/1996: Kazakhstan
to spell space names differently |
| 1996: Gordon Feller's "dead cosmonaut" list is unbelievable |
| 04/1995
- Max
Faget: Master Spaceship Builder |
| 07/1994
- Apollo-11 TV
Documentary Misrepresentations |
| 07/1993
- OMNI: “Rocks
for sale - lunar rocks” |
| 1992
- Could
NASA Have Saved Skylab? |
| 04/1991
- James
Oberg remembers Yuri Gagarin |
| 12/1990
- The
Nedelin Catastrophe: James Oberg's classic account of
the greatest disaster in space history. |
| 10/1990
- Inside
Baikonur |
| 06/04/1990
- NASA Contract: Survey
of Russian EVA Maintenance Experience |
| 06/1990
- Air&Space Magazine: "Inside
Star City" |
| 02/1990
- Trouble
In Star City: The beginning of the end of the Soviet
Space Industry |
| 1990
- Sleuthing Soviet
Space Secrets |
| 1988
- Uncovering
Soviet Disasters: Chapter on dead cosmonauts |
| 03/1986
- Soviet
Aerospace Disinformation |
| Phantoms
of Space |
| 06/1981
- Omni: The OTRAG space privateer saga link
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| 1981
- The Politics
of the First Woman in Space (Tereshkova) - Excerpt
from 'Red Star in Orbit' (PDF
File) |
