Len Lekx wrote: The trailer was funny - Nazi flying saucers to the Moon. :-D Can't say much for the scientific accuracy, though... (It's the ...

40 years ago today, we had the distinctive event in human history of Neil & Buzz landing on the Moon, then venturing out to take those first...

wrote: It looks a parody of several whackjob conspiracy theories: ...

Folks, the recent focus around the Apollo anniversary brought a memory back out of deep tape storage about a movie I saw as a kid - my vague recollection is...

Greg D. Moore (Strider) wrote: Wow, they've learned capitalism well. Yes. You wanted it! Now you have it. They are just as money hungry as you.

Greg D. Moore (Strider) wrote: Wow, they've learned capitalism well. I also didn't realize chutzpah was a Russian word. "Missiles? Cuba? Nyet." ...

Just when you think you've uncovered the last Soviet space...

Brian Gaff wrote: Yeah but they only use them once. Brian Which, together with the fact that they are unmanned, means that they don't get grounded...

We have had the first woman in space, the first woman pilot, the first woman commander, etc. Will the next Soyuz journey be the first space journey for which...

Just wanted to give a ' heads up ' about this new two hour special on the History Channel. http://www.history.com/genericContent.do?id=71504 No this isn't a...

I think this has been discussed before, but the famous onboard film of an S-IVB pulling away is said to have been from Apollo 6. It shows the S-IVB having...

Wikipedia says Jim McDivitt would have been up for Apollo 14 LMP if not for internal politics. McDivitt states in his NASA oral history that "I had an...

be fired by ground control? I often wondered if there was ANYWAY apollo 13s LM could of been put in heliospheric orbit

In honor of the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11, I spent the weekend viewing youtube videos that assert that the moon landings were a hoax. But I was extremely...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Escape_Systems Gotta admit I had never seen anything about this. Talk about a ballsy way to orbit. -- Greg Moore

Sounds like the Jupiter from Direct: http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/2009/07/ares_v_ares_1_a.html Pat

Walter Bushell writes: In article , wrote: It looks like it in face of the...

Biologically, human beings haven't changed in 100,000 years - but thanks to our amazing brains we can upgrade ourselves to add capabilities that took other...

I just received a link to some of the historical pictures for Apollo 11. http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/07/remembering_apollo_11.html Somebody...

I knew you could vector the exhaust up; I knew you could vector the exhaust down; I didn't know you could vector the exhaust both up _and_ down...