It seems to me the greatest single flaw in our space program has been the habit of putting the cart before the horse. "If we build it they will come". A...

http://bit.ly/aHqQvZ Any more info on this??

Over the years, this topic has come up many times in this newsgroup. The obvious answer is that you'd be stupid to use the shuttle as your transportation...

Cough......cough!! NY Times.com China Leading Global Race to Make Clean Energy "Coal will still represent two-thirds of China's capacity in 2020"

STS-131 - Video File http://www.space-multimedia.nl.eu.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5737 STS-131 - Program Overview...

I love it! Tonight on Turner Classic Movies: They not only air the classic air disaster parody "Airplane" but the film that inspired it, as well as another...

About fifteen years ago, I read an article that suggested one CPU error per 1000 hours of computation. Nowadays CPUs are faster, but they...

Bet you though this would be interesting. Actually, I'm still trying to figure out the fact that this effect occurs but cannot transfer information. If it...

In the interests of -"what a particular timers it is:" - where are we located? In the ideas of space & time it is the idea of what a -particular, sanctioned,...

Is it conceivable that this year's last shuttle flight could be the last USA manned launch in the next 50/60 years ? With Russia offering relatively cheap...

STS-130 - FLIGHT DAY 12 HIGHLIGHTS http://www.space-multimedia.nl.eu.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5714 STS-130 - ENDEAVOUR-ISS CREW RIBBON...

President Obama ends NASA's Moon missions. Leaving the US manned space program in limbo. I believe this decision signals the end of an significant fifty year...

So how scripted is this sort of thing I wonder..Can you imagine what might happen, for example if someone asked him, so, what is the long term goal for...

This had better not be true or I will be in "Downfall Bruno Ganz" mode for a month. "BEFAHRT! DER ANGRIFF STEINER.." "Climate change" research means the...

He wants financial advice, and from the fact that it was the finance folk who caused the whole bubble to burst by believing their own pr, its hardly...

Just wondering, is the cargo bay pressurized? I know it's a lot of space. Thanks.

They seem to be always having trouble with cables and battery chargers on the station. What on earth do they do with them I wonder. Forced to have a laugh...

Losing no time (probably had this proposal on the back burner for a long time), Boeing reveals their concept for a commercial crew capsule. Suprise (not!),...

STS-130 - RENDEZVOUS PITCH MANEUVER http://www.space-multimedia.nl.eu.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5660 STS-130 - ENDEAVOUR - ISS...

SOLAR DYNAMICS OBSERVATORY MISSION WEBCAST http://www.space-multimedia.nl.eu.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5656 ATLAS 5 - SOLAR DYNAMICS...