Want to see something cool? Would a movie from the Spirit rover of the whirling moons of Barsoom passing through the Pleiades do the...

'L5 News' from late '70's available on-line The strange-and-wonderful 'L5' organization, devoted to space colonies a la Gerard O'Neill, had a high-octane...

The greater bulk of knowledge owes its existence to a very intangible thing serendipity the serendipitous acquisition of knowledge generally only happens...

If you are going to invert the plane, then you would ideally need the rudder and crew window area underneath. Brian -- Brian Gaff....Note, this account does...

This morning (September 14) saw the fourth Minuteman III missile launched from Vandenberg AFB in seven weeks, making this the busiest Minuteman test year since...

"On May 15, 1618 he discovered The Third Law: The squares of the periodic times are to each other as the cubes of the mean distances. This law he published...

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=17836 Will McLean

The Falcon is very believable, the Falcon 5 is too. The Falcon 9? Nine engines? I wonder if they are fudgeing the probability of an engine failure a little. ...

Got this in an email: SpaceX attempted a full Mission Duty Cycle (MDC) test of the Merlin S/N 003 engine on Wednesday, 7 Sep 05 with catastrophic results. At...

On a sunny day (18 Sep 2005 09:57:01 -0700) it happened "bombardmentforce" wrote...

Griffin Remarks for AIAA Space 2005 Conference, 31 August 2005 courtesy K. Cowing, http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=1059 Eighteen months ago,...

The Stick (Kebab / White Elephant etc) seems to have a got a lot of, er Stick in this news group. No one seems to have much good to say about it. Will someone...

A while back I posted some vulnerability-related excerpts from the famous (or infamous, as you choose to see it) Team B pseudo-NIE: "Team B on ASATs (the view...

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9247925/ There's some speculation that Ceres has lots of water. At 2.77 AU it's about in the middle of the Main Belt. I'd imagine...

Innumerate poetry in the service of technophobia is no virtue. Scenario parameters extract: RVEL +20,297.304 meters/second P.S. Dr. Suess was a commie...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Seasonearth.png The images of the Equinox reveal that the change in orbital orientation due to the Earth's orbital motion...

A video of yesterday's Dnepr launch is available at: "http://www.jaxa.jp/countdown/oicets_index/index_e.html" - Ed Kyle

The end of the independence of the old 'Korolyov Bureau' -- maybe now that the government's starvation policy has brought it to its knees, its submission will...

India aims to map moon in 2007 voyage at http://www.washtimes.com/world/20050916-102917-9131r.htm

Russia has set some approximate dates for Kliper's first flight: http://www.spacedaily.com/news/rocketscience-05zz.html They also hinting at international...