Here's some details of what SpaceX is up to with Falcon 9...

On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 09:01:36 -0800, Pat Flannery wrote: Since Juno has three very large solar arrays on it to give sufficient...

http://www.apollo18movie.net/ Just in time to catch the college back-in-school crowd. I can just hear the commentary from the crowd of late teen early...

Surprised nobody has raised this one yet: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14417634 which in some way *really* brings home the changes that are...

Juno, NASA's next mission to orbit Jupiter, will be the first manned mission to the giant planet, it has been...

The dirty Ruskies couldn't wait for the Shuttle to touch down, to begin denigrating it compared to the "reliable" Soyuz. A translation of the Roskosmos...

Basically stick the MPCV onto a ATV cargo module that then serves as a equipment-service module and crew living...

Don't have a link but perhaps somebody has seen it. Fantastic record of the shuttle doing an "S" curve manuever during reentry. To my knowledge it is the...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43944919/ns/technology_and_science-space/ One pay grade less in retirement pay, less than honorable discharge, etc. Hope she...

Rules: one shot of spirits for every use of the word "final" in a NASA press release regarding Shuttle. I'll have an awful hangover next week.

"Jeff Findley" wrote in message ... In article...

Opportunity is only 1.2 miles away. Since August of 2008, Opportunity rover has been traveling towards it's biggest crater yet, 14 mile-wide Endeavour...

A Space Race There once was a great race to space, Two nations kept up a fine pace. Sputnik next to our Vanguard, The task seemed so very hard. Vostok was...

From Pat Flannery: A while back I posted about how space colonization fans treat the idea like some sort of religious cult; you want to read something that...

On Jul 20, 5:51*am, Jeff Findley wrote: In article 9e6eb710-6c25-4645-8324- ,...

Long time back, I saw a TV show about the tests they were doing developing technology for the X-30 NASP; one of these tests was taking a piece of ceramic...

After reading Breakfast of Champions I wrote a letter to Kurt Vonnegut, to which he graciously replied. We had a number of letters back and forth following...

On 15/07/2011 8:11 PM, Pat Flannery wrote: No, this is not an article from The Onion; this is for real: ...

In article , bthorn64 @suddenlink.net says... On Sat, 2 Jul 2011 15:49:38 -0700 (PDT), bob haller...

Story Musgrave is PO'd about NASA and the shuttle: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/09/ex-astronaut-story-musgrave-blasts-nasa_n_893596.html I note he...