Looking at the planned vehicles for the return to the moon, the article(s) seemed to emphasize leverage of shuttle technology. For example the use of SSMEs and...

is it possible to utilize the solar wind particles for EP ?

From the British Antarctic Survey is a report on understanding radiation hazards wrt to the Van Allen Belts and space weather. See...

Dear everyone,I'm a new member and very new for space science,so please help me to learn about it! I've read some forum about the figure of 8 but still do not...

*************************************************************** Nick Janow Jun 23 1991, 5:35 am I think that a private organization...

Scott Hedrick wrote: So, instead of blowing up bombs as designed, your Orion will throw fuels cells out the back... OK. Doesn't seem terribly efficient....

AP has reported that John Norris Bahcall died at 70. He is given credit for the "flipping neutrino" analysis and for being a long-time major advocate of the...

I'm working on a book about space technologies, policies, hopes, and attitudes toward them. The NSS' Ad Astra Online has started running an essay condensed...

Stumbled on this interesting photo from 1965- this was the KIWI TNT (Transient Nuclear Test) test; a KIWI nuclear rocket test reactor was purposely given a...

I know that billionaire entrepreneur in Las Vegas has a "space hotel" designed and built, but he is leaving it to others to build the shuttle that will get the...

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=1048 So that a launchpad can be converted over for The Stick and SDV cargo carrier? Pat

Lightning on demand, drawing down a bolt of lightning for performing scientific studies, is usually done by firing a rocket into an overhead cloud. The rocket...

After playing with some sycamore seeds (helicopter seeds) with my children, I thought of an idea for a satelite design. Shaped like a large sycamore seed...

The Orlando Sentinel has gotten its hands on the NASA Moon landing plans using the Stick and the SDV- the CEV will be a simple ballistic capsule with a...

Trees... from the Moon By Richard Black Environment correspondent, BBC News They have been to space and back and virtually all of them lived to tell...

There's one expected this afternoon. My guess is that they'll wait for the market to close.

Direct hit on a comet: http://www.spaceflightnow.com/deepimpact/050704firstcloseups.html More photes expected shortly. Pat

There's an interesting account at http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=1034 of a talk that Mike Griffin (NASA administrator) gave about...

They have a Quicktime movie up made up from pictures from Opportunity showing the rover getting itself unstuck from the...

40 teams listed at end of http://www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge/NQE_Press_Release.pdf "DARPA selected the semifinalists from a field of 118 entrants,...