A letter to the ESA: ========================================================================= Hello. I was interested to read your report, "(title deleted)"...

Dear fellows Thanks to the water, it must be useful to detail the pretreatment of the velocity with appropriate experience; As a consequence, it should be...

Did any subsequent missile or launch vehicle (not counting Atlas variants) use the monocoque balloon tank sturcture? Thanks Matt

For a Minuteman III, Stage 1, what's the liquid injected into the nozzle for increased directional control? Is it a combustible fluid like N2O4 or a dense but...

Those who know their space.history, know what place Carnarvon holds in it. Buzz was there today, opening a museum and doing some scuba diving. Neil Gerace

Looking back to the recent past, some aerogel images from the Stardust mission gallery. http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/photo/aerogel.html /dps -- Who, me?...

Suppose if the task was not given to the U.S. navy to launch the first satellite with the Vanguard program but to Wernher Von Braun with his Explorer program?...

....Some years back, I did one of my ALSJ gag posts where Frank and Jim are having this rather heated discussion as to who was the one who "cut the cheese" in...

A 1962 design for a combination scientific space station and on-orbit spacecraft construction facility, with extendable...

On Jun 10, 8:07*pm, Fred M. McNeill wrote: The age of the universe and its vast number of stars suggest that unless the Earth is...

What early non-fiction proposals were there for use of any of the Lagrange Points? Not fiction; not saying that there could be, or were, natural objects...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Glenn In April 1959, despite the fact that Glenn had not earned the required college degree, he was assigned to the...

While digging through the Project Gemini Chronology for my own little day-by-day retelling of it I noticed Monday was the start of a fourteen-day simulation...

See the launch abort video... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O4V7JfeTSU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JwtONW8oTU WHY has the last FIFTY YEARS of space...

(sci.space.history added) John Dean noted that: Become jaded by the volume of Neil Armstrong interviews out there? No? Seriously? OK: ...

Does anyone know how many communications circuits the large deployable parabolic antenna could manage? There were voice, telemetry and video circuits, but...

"Brad Guth" wrote in message ... Processing our deepest ocean...

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Robert Clark explained on 5/4/2012 : On Friday, January 20, 2012 1:54:56 PM UTC-5, Robert Clark wrote: On Dec 10 2011, 8:24 pm, ...

One of archive.org's videos of the day was a May 1960 newsreel of an Atlas launch which, against expectations, didn't blow up in any kind of cinematic or...