Mir (1986-2001)

Famous Personalities

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

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

04/2000 - All-Woman Shuttle Crew Proposal Nixed . UPI

02/2000 - Space sex hoax rises again

04/1999 - Secrets of Soyuz

03/10/1996: Kazakhstan to spell space names differently

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

1981 - The Politics of the First Woman in Space (Tereshkova) - Excerpt from 'Red Star in Orbit' (PDF File)