On 10/20/2012 6:27 AM, Brian Gaff wrote: So its leaking is it, do they actually know the reason? Brian Better than having a helium...

You know its almost as if they knew that engine would fail on launch, I've seen no other reason why more cargo came back than went up, after all if you...

Then come back to earth and look into the mirror. What would I see?

According to Spaceflight Now, the first operational cargo flight of the Dragon spacecraft is carrying 1001 pounds of cargo. On the other hand, on the same site...

Well I see they are going to take the plunge. The question is who would want to go for that long? I suppose a year is more realistic than the current...

I ws attempting to bring some order to my garden on Saturday when I heard a child in a garden some distance away doing the.. Dad, what is bit. The thing that...

It seems to have gone very quiet recently on the Chinese space program, anything happening? Brian -- From the Sofa of Brian Gaff Reply address is active

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As seems pretty normal, the craft bringing them back ended up on its side and apparently four burly lads had to manhandle it to get at the hatch and get the...

I note on the press release about the destructive return of the European cargo vehicle, it mentions that there is equipment on board to record the break up...

What if you view the universe we live in as some giant simulation. The pixel definition and the rate of update are fixed, so this would mean that quantum...

Seems to me they could have kept the three there for a few more weeks. Brian -- -- From the sofa of Brian Gaff - Blind user, so no...

In article , says... I have a feeling that something like this has been done with animals, after...

Several comments yesterday afternoon by astronauts seems to suggest to me that they want to go back to the moon, not an asteroid. I guess the topic came up...

So the annoyingly tight thread was cleaned out with a highly sophisticated nasa tool. a cheap toothbrush. if I was that company I'd be making the ads as we...

Barney Rubble? And what a daft name for a spacecraft...grin Sept. 4, 2012 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726

The last one happened on a day when I was not able to listen, but from what I read some odd problems meant it was not able to be completed. and now they are...

After about a year, Dawn is on the move again. Fly-around of Vesta included (also on...

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/people/features/armstrong_obit.html Neil Armstrong: 1930-2012 NASA August 25, 2012 Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the...

Now they can resupply in 6 hours, one assumes only if the orbit and pad are in the correct relationships, it seems that its not that difficult after all....