I'm trying to compare with what they had as the setup for the TV Buck Rogers... What is the last flight where the United States/NASA only put *one* person...

Considerably lower in cost than the Buran model: http://www.squadron.com/ItemDetails.asp?item=SO32022 Pat

We have a major blizzard going up here in North Dakota, so I thought I'd do something worthwhile with my time. I'm limiting these to US designs. These are...

Will cost you an arm and a leg, but if you are interested anyway: http://www.squadron.com/ItemDetails.asp?item=IBAX72027 Pat

Dr J R Stockton wrote: Without analysis, ISTM that one does want the structures close together, not for visible or RF "optical" reasons, but since it's...

Some of those who are overzealously advocating one niche of spaceflight and/or spaceflight technology ought to have a look at this article. By overzealously...

Thought this might be of interest... http://up-ship.com/blog/?p=4925

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Another start-up! Space Energy Inc "The company plans to develop SBSP satellites to generate and transmit electricity to receivers on the Earth's surface. To...

Scott Lowther has a cutaway drawing up on his blog from 1971 of what the original NAR Shuttle was going to look like when first...

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.....handle the annual growth in US electrical demand. 5GW each. According to the paper below. Space-Based Solar Power An opportunity for Strategic...

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On Sun, 06 Dec 2009 09:59:20 -0800, Pat Flannery wrote: wrote: On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 09:12:57 GMT, "Brian Gaff" ...

Found these over on YouTube. Four videos about research on the design, including a full-scale Titan I/early DynaSoar mock-up in part three, and testing of the...

The story of the Ant Lifting Bodies: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4lJ67Jg3_g http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBIyI5p53ww&NR=1 Dead-on perfect parody of...

I saw a drawing in a book a while back that showed skylab with a lunar module docked to it were they thinking of putting one in lunar orbit or use it to fly...

I was digging around for information on the rocket propelled winged belly pod that was planned for the B-58 Hustler to allow it to lob a nuclear warhead...

Pretty good stuff http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/12/a-spacewalk-as-seen-from-earth/ .....Doc

Really clear pictures on the NASA t.v. feed. Looked like a nice day out at KSC. I like it when the camera pans back on NASA t.v. just before the shuttle...