In article , Anonymous via the Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer wrote: The Saturn V Moon...

I'd think it would be important and worth doing. - Underground for the most part, partly for structural simplicity and also for protection. - Sunlight 'up...

This is interesting -- RocketPlane is accepting reservations for suborbital tourist flights on their own craft, which they claim will be flying in...

Numerous news sites (Yahoo, BBC, Google, Reauters) reporting a successful flight despite control problems, which might be some PIO (cue Mary). Engine was...

Anonymous via the Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer wrote in : The Saturn V Moon Rocket...

7-Up has just announced that they will be offering a free ticket to space (in conjunction with their "the only way to go is Up" marketing campaign). Details...

http://www.cnn.com/POLLSERVER/results/13628.exclude.html Is space travel safe enough for the general public yet? No: 74% Yes: 26% as of now (with 2200 votes...

An interesting discussion of the SpaceShipOne problem at: "http://aviationnow.com/avnow/news/channel_awst_story.jsp?id=news/10044wna.xml" According to the...

I am not an entomologist so don't come down on me if anything in this post is off the beam. Etymology is the study of the origin of words... an...

Andrew Gray : I think the idea is for the NGS - who aren't badly off, admittedly - to be able to go on your subscription...

Mach 3 tourist trap I can feel the excitement. You go way up till the sky is black even in the day time. I a ship design that is at or near it maximum. When I...

Looks like the competitions will go on: http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/10/05/spaceshipone.race.ap/index.html Here's one interesting bit: International...

"Jacques van Oene" wrote in message ... NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe today congratulated the ...

(Alan Erskine) wrote in message ... im aka...

Kerry gets a bump, the market tanks tomorrow. Imho Bush .... "Iranian Moolahs" That's a keeper~

In addition to the usual outlets (Yahoo, etc), the appearent success of this morning's flight even made it to the Peter Tilden Morning Show on KZLA. The "Five...

Excellent! SpaceShip 1 hit ~368,000 feet altitude in its second X-Prize flight, with a turnaround time of 5 days. Reports are that it was a good, clean...

Dear "Malev" of the Gotham City Asylum, I'd like to point to the fact that "Malev" is the copyrighted name of the hungarian national...

But the announcers on CNN did err at least two times: 1. They prounounced Sputnik with a short, instead of the proper long "U". You mean like...

Laser sustained detonation rockets have been proposed as launchers. http://www.islandone.org/Propulsion/JordinKareBiblio.html At 30% efficiency throughout -...