With talk of adapting the Space Shuttle Main Engine design to Ares V use I'm left wondering about previous examples of engines that get designed for one...

New shots of the whole assembled rocket at the Cape: http://www.spacex.com/updates.php Nice looking rocket; bears some resemblance to a Zenit booster. Pat

Shades of Blade Runner! http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/01/12/copter-cops/ Love the black future limo down on the road...that could be the very model of...

Pretty close to my own, actually, but how are the Israelis going to deal with living in a country that's around thirty times as long as it's wide? Also, what...

http://www.floridatoday.com/content/blogs/space/2009/01/gao-report-faults-nasa-oversight.shtml Pat

http://www.space.com/news/ft-090107-spacecenter-explosion.html ... Beutel said Lockheed Martin Corp. and ASRC Aerospace Corp. conducted the...

Looks like a classic trial balloon to me, to cancel the stick and go with EELV's to me! Contrary to what the article says, cancelling the stick means...

I had the foresight to save a lot of material I collected in the 1960s and 1970s dealing with NASA's manned spaceflight programs. It seems to me that the...

Has anyone seen the new Orion video on NASA TV? The splashdown was a new feature, as it appears that an ocean landing is now the preferred option. What really...

Lots of big plans and neat, moody, illustrations: http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/01/07/race-to-the-planets/ Apparently, all space missions will occur in...

This guy?: http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/2009/01/marine_bolden_nasa_010709w/ After reading his record, I don't think he'd be amused if someone called...

What gives? (why the delay?) Is our DARPA and NASA telling India/ISRO what they can or can't do? Is our Selene/moon still nondisclosure rated? Why not allow...

It's supposed to be fully stacked at KSC by New Year's Day: http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=27259 Pat

Some nut case loony bin psycho troll over at NSF - (http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com) posted this link, and it was so darn interesting that I decided that...

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2008/12/ssme-ares-v-undergoes-evaluation-potential-switch/ The rubes continue to flail around while the clock runs out.

Comrade! The Marxist/Leninist's choice for sticking notes on the fridge!: http://www.atlantacutlery.com/atlantacutlery/detail.aspx?ID=2092 "Things to do...

It's from Popular Science, so take what they say with a grain of salt: http://www.popsci.com/node/29544

Anyone know if NASA are still planning on the 2 launches in a week for STS -125 & STS -127? in May 09? I heard STS -125 may be rescheduled for an booster...

NASA chief's wife begs Obama, "please don't fire my husband" http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081231/ap_on_re_us/nasa_chief It could mean an end to furs, caviar...

Well, at least she didn't try to kill a fellow astronaut's girlfriend:...