Not trolling, just wondering. One of the biggest problems with a mission to mars or anywhere else is solar radiation. The earth is protected by the van-allen...

Read it and weep: http://www.johnkerry.com/communities/scientists_engineers/spacepolicy.html I know the ghost of John Kennedy must be in tears.

FL Today on a 6 million USD construction fraud matter at KSC: http://www.floridatoday.com/!NEWSROOM/localstoryN1113KSC.htm If this is what Olson Electric...

According to: "http://www.flatoday.com/news/space/stories/2004b/spacestoryN1010OVERRUN.htm" The new Air Force estimate is that EELV (Delta IV or Atlas...

This is a very exciting week for private spaceflight! In addition to the Virgin Galactic announcement, hotel entrepreneur Robert Bigelow (of Bigelow Aerospace)...

Did NASA space robot dodge disaster? Launch managers pull the plug at the last minute http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6444226/ By James Oberg, NBC News space...

It will be on German tv on November 18, 20.15h at channel Pro 7. Harald Jacques van Oene wrote: BBC's Space Odyssey Shortly after ESA astronaut Pedro...

Pat Flannery : Allen Thomson wrote: Note that the referenced slide says they're shooting at the ullage volume, i.e., the volume...

Aidan Karley : In article , Ralph Nesbitt wrote: That was...

A little bit of catching up: http://www.dod.gov/contracts/2002/c09302002_ct493-02.html Raytheon Company, Sudbury, Mass., is being awarded a $17,173,912...

Hi folks Have been looking at Titan info and wondering what it may look like. some info suggests from the surface the sky may actually appear green. Also it...

On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 23:48:59 GMT, John Steinberg quoted, in part: There is also a more tangible piece of New York on Mars. On...

It is strange when talking about mature. Should China invade any neighbouring nations, or bombing any cities, or sending tanks to a town to prove it is...

It may have cost Rutan twenty million dollars, but it only will cost you some paper and printer ink! http://www.currell.net/models/ss1.htm And don't miss the...

One of the other posts got me thinking. Imagine (in 2100-2200) SSP providing 100 TW of power to Earth. Let's say this is made up of 1,000 satellites, each of...

He hasn't posted for a while, so what happened? Too busy/sick/bored? A bit disapointing as he is the best member of SSP. I hope he's OK. Gunn

http://www.aviationnow.com/avnow/news/channel_awst_story.jsp?id=news%2F110 14top.xml See this story. Given their success, why not send some more of...

I tried to post this to sci.space.science on Sunday, where I thought it would be most on-topic, but it never appeared, so I'm trying here today: Yesterday...

IIRC, the Soviets investigated the use of giant orbital inflated optics to make Siberia warmer. Although the concept never left the "paper study" phase, I...

"I can teach anyone how to get what they want out of life. The problem is I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want." -- Mark Twain "Today people in...