The Vision for Space Exploration Should be Killed! The lesson of Apollo, according to the Apollo 11 astronauts in their address to Congress, was that Apollo...

Scott Lowther wrote: OM wrote: ...On the subject of the for-pay nature of L2 access, this whole mess brings into question whether one could in turn...

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I read on NSF that geocities is shutting down, and a large number of exotic and bizarre images may become totally extinct, forever lost. I hereby declare Pat...

"EADS Astrium officials are urging that Europe begin preparing a design for a medium-lift launch vehicle that could provide an eventual replacement for the...

I wonder what list members think of this idea: A scientific/technical contest to compose a metric with reasonably economical energy requirements for an...

On Mar 25, 2:04*am, Pat Flannery wrote: Arved Sandstrom wrote: An EMP-enhanced Tow missile would produce a pulse strong enough to ...

Barack Obama's space policy has taken more twists and turns than a satellite in an eccentric orbit. If former NASA administrator Mike Griffin is correct,...

What's technically wrong with our using Selene L1? ~ BG On Apr 19, 4:44*pm, BradGuth wrote: Perhaps any platform of science...

OM wrote: :On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:38:36 -0400, "Jeff Findley" wrote: : : :"Fred J. McCall"...

So is it back to spinning populist schill for the incumbantist observationists than rendering invisible support for intuitive technocrats? That's the same...

The current way to put a commercial communications satellite in geo- stationary orbit is to launch it on a large, self-contained rocket like Ariane, Proton,...

http://www.irandefence.net/showthread.php?t=47276&page=2 It looks like the "satellite fairing" has a ablative heatshield at its tip, like a warhead would...

"Pat Flannery" wrote in message ... Greg D. Moore (Strider)...

Scott Lowther wrote: A more likely reason is that if the file goes any further in the media, it'll have the NASAwatch website/logo stamped on it. James...

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Study finds EELV capable of Orion role - Griffin claims alternatives are...

The idea of reflecting sunlight using mirrors at the Earth-Sun L1 Lagrange point is well established. It appears to be based on manufacturing mirrors on the...

It will mean something went fundamentally wrong with my city of Jamestown, North Dakota's preparations for the flood that will start today. This could be as...

If the general public knew what our government agencies of DARPA, NASA, DoE and their Big Energy puppet masters have been hiding and otherwise doing to us and...