Is there some special reason why Jonathan included a naval group in his crossposts, or is he just clueless? Vaughn "Jonathan" wrote in...

Russia may keep their half in orbit after the rest reenters: http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/2009/05/russia_sees_fut.html Pat

Trouble with the booster; flight kicked back "at least six weeks":...

According to Florida Today retired Marine General and former astronaut Charles Bolden has been nominated for the post of NASA Administrator by President Barack...

"The first phase of tests of the rocket motor for Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo (SS2) space tourism vehicle has been successfully completed at Mojave, Calif.,...

Has distributed computing (parts of a program running on separate computers on separate spacecraft, connected by a network) been demonstrated in...

Greg D. Moore (Strider) wrote: On the other hand, if you can't redock to your Orion capsule from the Moon, you're totally screwed. Maybe not totally. If...

Pat Flannery wrote: It's a clever idea, but it would be a lot simpler to just interconnect the two spacecraft's fuel tankage automatically when they dock,...

On Sat, 30 May 2009 22:43:35 -0400, Jonathan wrote: "Jonathan" wrote in message ...

On May 22, 9:50*am, BradGuth wrote: For example: Earth surface area = 5.1e14 m2, and the atmosphere contains: * * Helium (He) 5.24...

I don't understand what the current NASA policy is towards the ISS after 2016. Are we in agreement with the international partners about de-orbit in 2016? Will...

If we’re ever going to be in charge of colonizing space, we’ll first have to figure out how to pay for it. BHO and Norm Augustine damage-control is simply too...

The debate now is not that Mars has water; it has oceans of it frozen under a thin layer of Martian dust, as the Phoenix Lander has shown. Nor is it an...

Norm Augustine to Review the Vision for Space Exploration May 12, 2009 by Mark Whittington "Norm Augustine, retired CEO of Lockheed Martin, has been asked by...

On Thu, 14 May 2009 19:05:14 -0500, OM wrote: ...Apparently she now claims she *wasn't* nutso after...

"The Air Force Research Laboratory has finally released its request for information on concepts for a reusable launch vehicle. They are calling it the Reusable...

http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-05-22-voa3.cfm What they found is evidence that there was liquid water in this crater on Mars. Ergo... 1) Mars was...

This looks to be badly designed junk. We had better rockets 30 years ago. The design goal was for a man rated rocket to carry six people. They stupidly...

The PHML are cuming... er...coming...to a movie screen near...

"What's this?! ISS _equals_ Space Colonialism? Time to send _Brazilian supermodels_ into space? _Buzz_ writing for The New York...