Has any group member read about this Well, yes, for example see: http://www.panix.com/space/mining.html and the links therein. As for where to look for...

My experience is that a large portion of the NASA budget is spent on payroll. There are many more people doing a project than are necessary. About 90% of the...

Fred Whipple, of the "dirty iceball" comet theory, passed away Monday (2004.08.30) at age 97. Whipple was also the the inventor the space debris protection...

Here's an interesting link (from NASAWATCH.com): http://www.sandroid.org/Apollo/index.html Jon

There are some fascinating pics of impact craters on earth at this site. www.lpi.usra.edu They are all from Australia, Africa and Canada it seems. Are there...

from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3555048.stm "Last Updated: Wednesday, 11 August, 2004, 10:49 GMT 11:49 UK Japan unfurls solar sail in...

What an amazing image. Would anyone care to start a discussion on this image? I could analyze it for hours.

In few hours NASA's Messenger orbiter will be launched toward Mercury. And the new MESSENGER Mission group has just...

Hi All: NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft is set for launch on Sunday night-Monday morning. The craft should be visible with simple optical assistance shortly after...

I'm up on the Space Station and I go out for a nice little space walk. I take along my specially designed hunting rifle and fire a bullet down at the planet. ...

Some more factoids about CB: -------------------------------- http://www.smdc.army.mil/Contracts/SETAC/archived_T_ORP/TORP0032_1.doc SYSTEMS ENGINEERING &...

Follow the directions below and in two weeks you'll have up to $20000.00 in your PayPal account. There is a very high rate of participation in the...

Suppose one wanted to trim the many different rocket designs we have to the minimum useful few. We'd like to have a rocket well suited to every task, but...

References: OM wrote: ...Just a quick update...

And are you ready for this - it would be called the JIMO! :-) The craft would be a radical departure in that it will be equipped with a nuclear reactor,...

Full story posted at: http://www.spacearchive.info/news-2004-05-09-di.htm Regards, Brian Webb

Meridiani has a very strange feature. There are craters and no ejecta. Is the ejecta all covered by some recent event? If so, why is the surface surrounding...

This subject was touched on a few years ago in one of the sci.space groups. Now that NASA has been given a new direction, maybe its time bring it up again. I...

Here's something I got to thinking about while considering Earth-like moons around gas giants in the habitable zones around stars. What would seasons be like?...

The "Seasons on Gas Giant Moons" thread got me wondering... would a "binary" system of earth-like planets be possible? And what would happen once any...