David Spain Wrote in message: Notable passing of a space legend. Chris Kraft Director of Flight Operations at MSC.?Chris was a visionary,...

When it is more important to leave something unsigned... ...

A couple of Tweets talking about SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage reuse economics. The first is repeating some FUD that Tory Bruno of ULA likes to spread. The...

Why wouldn't NASA silence Grissom, White and Chaffee they were going to spill the beans!

Some of us oldtimers here remember a fellow who went by the screename of OM. He was a cantankerous trollish fellow that knew his stuff but internet etiquette...

Hey world, Did that SpaceX Falcon 9 flight go right or not? Personally not sure that polos are the right clothes for the ISS, but I'm not a "top...

Kathyrn D. Sullivan America's first space walker has also become the first woman to experience the deepest sea dive ever (seven miles down). To the...

On May 31, 1990, the Soviet Union launched a new module to the Mir space station. See how it happened in our On This Day in Space video...

Well this will definitely be historic if it goes today! Dave

Apollo 13: Enhanced images reveal life on stricken spacecraft Enhanced images reveal life aboard Nasa's stricken Apollo 13 spacecraft in unprecedented...

BTW, a very brief review of Rocket Ranch (by Jonathan H. H. Ward). It's a great book. I enjoy reading almost any history or biography of the space program,...

https://spaceflightblunders.wordpress.com/2017/10/10/saturn-sa-5-s-iv-rocket-hotness/ Nope, not the IV-B, but the IV which only flew on the Saturn I.

On Sunday, July 11, 1999 at 10:00:00 AM UTC+3, ian walker wrote: i remember as a small child visiting whyalla airport in south australia, with my dad, to...

This is how the Soviet attempt to upstage the US moon landing failed: http://www.russianspaceweb.com/n1_5l.html "On July 3, 1969, on the very eve of the...

Any one know how far away from the sun you would have to be to not feel it's heat to any extent? For example, I know an astronaut doing a space walk would bake...

Yesterday, I went to the Neil Armstrong Museum in Wapakoneta, Ohio. https://armstrongmuseum.org/ I've been there before 15+ years ago, and not much has...

Did the LLTVs have images of the lunar surface projected onto their 'windows'? Did some other lunar landing simulator have moving lunar surface images...

An article in Scientific American does some myth-busting. Fact or Fiction?: NASA Spent Millions to Develop a Pen that Would Write in Space, whereas the...

On Saturday, September 8, 2001 at 7:05:49 AM UTC-5, Gareth Slee wrote: Hi Has there been a Welshman in space? Wasn't there a Shuttle astronaut who...

You are correct NASA sent a fitted out semi-trailer that travelled around most Australian cities in the late 1968-9 as a thank you for Australia’s assistance...