Recent news item about Russian plans to put a 'crew' inside a spaceship simulator for 500 days of isolation, to simulate a mission to Mars and back -- but...

SS1 gets dropped from 47,000 ft. From there it has enough gas to get to... 115km or so, which is to say around 100km higher. This suggests then the White...

I haven't seen it posted here yet, so.. HobbySpace apparently got early access to the SpaceX next bimonthly status update. Among other things, Falcon V has...

Do any of these pics look 'ancient' and uncovered from millions of years of erosion? Or does it look like the water flowed years/centuries...

"Jonathan" wrote: Hydrothermal Systems, Stromatolites and Bacterial Concretions! It's been over 6 months since the following statement...

On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 12:10:48 +0200, in a place far, far away, "Tamas Feher" made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way as to...

The Senate is on the verge of killing the suborbital passenger business: http://www.transterrestrial.com/archives/004386.html#004386

"Jacques van Oene" schrieb im Newsbeitrag ... Columbus Control Centre inaugurated in...

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NASA ANNOUNCES CASSINI TITAN FLYBY COVERAGE Saturn's smog-cloaked moon Titan will be examined up close by the Cassini spacecraft next Tuesday....

SpaceShipOne has sparked a lot of news about the beginnings of the private space industry. While Paul Allen funded SpaceShipOne himself, it seems that a more...

Martin Frey wrote in message ... (Rand Simberg)...

I muse on a "debate" that was actually a trial of the President's space vision. Along the way I warn of the awful price of...

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The joy most people greeted the triumph of SpaceShipOne and the prospect of a space tourism industry has not, it seems, been universaly shared. Indeed, the...

MichaelJP wrote: Was wondering after watching the webcast yesterday, obviously relatively cheap sub-orbital flights are now a reality once they get the...

Back when the X-Prize was announced with a deadline of January 1, 2005 I said it would not be won. I also said that I thought Burt Rutan was too busy...

I don't think it is, so bear with me. The recent Rutan success at what on the surface appears to be a business effort with an unlikely profit motive brought...

Just noticed this in today's haul of the newsfeeds.. http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200410/200410180013.html "South Korea will select the...

Info on a Boeing web site says that "NASA plans to issue a CEV Request for Proposal in January with proposals due in April and contract award by June...