With the cool music of Donald Fagan, who captures the essence of the late 50s and early 60s with this song. What a wonderfully optomistic time it was, I...

What happened? I seem to remember a lot of excitement a few years back about this movie. Is David still working on it? Oh, and Pat pass on my condolences to...

What if instead of our going with whatever's small, extremely cheap, fast and rad-hard robotic, what if going with larger is nearly always better? Perhaps...

Newsgroup acting odd on my computer; this is just a test message to see what's going on. Pat

It's a small mention near the end of the article, but the Onion AV Club has an interview with Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage of Mythbusters, and they mention...

I have now obtained my own copy of *Manned Spacecraft Operation*, a recipe book for building Apollo, and found some interesting markings inside it. See...

In contemplating the *A.D.2063* book discussed on the Paleo-Future blog at http://www.paleofuture.com/2008/04/2063-ad-book-1963.html, I was reminded of...

To complete its section of the ISS: http://www.space-travel.com/reports/Russia_Needs_Billions_More_To_Complete_Its_ISS_Segment_999.html Of course it can afford...

I kid you not; a plan to send monkeys on a one-way trip to Mars: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7341211.stm (It's my "Paula Abdul On Mars" movie...

"...Quick update of sorts: they cut off the leg about 4" below the knee late Tuesday afternoon. I slept most of Wednesday, and Thursday they put me through...

First it was the Mechanix Illustrated article from 1957 about slave robot butlers and cooks in our homes by...

Another article from Modern Mechanix: http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/04/12/photographing-stars-with-a-rocket/ Very prescient; one of the first uses of...

Russian girl, Italian astronaut...sounds like a 1960's Italian sci-fi movie..."Paolo On The Prowl"?...

By 1951, it should have been obvious that this was BS: http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/04/13/how-scientists-visualize-the-real-flying-saucer-men/ Pat

For those interested in the history of British rocketry http://www.spaceuk.org/index.htm - great stuff on many programs.

Practicing for a BushWhack !!! Pass it on. VID: http://www.iwebtool.com/shortcut/24371 Sons of Liberty Militia The revolution has already started !!!

Which space shuttle mission was the first to carry legal tender American coinage as an official part of its cargo? Where are those coins today? JTM

Not to be too picky or anything, but why does reverse speech stuff have anything to do with planetary physics and orbital mechanics?

New images from MRO: http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/phobos.php Pat

Otto Binder shows us the future as seen from 1957...even "Magnus, Robot Fighter" didn't have as odd of things in it as the two shown in the illustration,...