Does anyone happen to know if Spaceship One made its most recent flight with a full load of propellant, or what fraction thereof? Obviously this would have...

I admit I haven't checked how much traffic there is on alt.politics, but I'm guessing it has to be MUCH less than the off-topic political discussions on the...

I was wonder what our current best bets for protecting ourselves against radiation in LEO, the Lunar transit and surface, and the martian surface and...

In article , Jacques van Oene wrote: Titan's surface revealed Piercing the layer of smog enshrouding...

Burt Rutan and Scaled Composites deserve congratulations for conducting a 100 km. altitude flight and returning the pilot in one piece but it doesn't sound as...

Here is an idea I have been thinking about for a while: Rocket engines are quite efficient at converting chemical energy to linear motion. They also have an...

I didn't see this archived so its about time. http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/project.archive/1976.skyhook/papers/scable.pox This is derived from the POX...

Anyone want to speculate what we'll be doing in space in thirty years time? Bush's Mars plan: Abandoned. An American return to the Moon: Either delayed due...

On looking on NASAs site, and seeing the still-present banner, it struck me that the true mark that spaceflight is routine will be when a death in space is...

From AWST, 28 June 2004, pp.22-23 Repeat Offenders by Robert Wall For months, the Air Force and prime contractor Lockheed Martin have struggled to fix...

On June 22, 2004 NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe made an historic decision to repair the Hubble space telescope with a canadian telerobot called...

From: http://www.zubrinus.com/assets/zubrinus/faqs.pdf "What are the potential adverse reactions that I may see with the use of ZUBRIN? In both the 7-day and...

The TimeLord wrote in message ... Gary Forbat wrote on Sunday...

....GIF animators take note: JPL's started putting up a large series of pre-SOI approach images. Might be worth looking at for those wanting to piece together...

Every once in a while some rube will suggest we could get rid of all our radiactive waste by shooting into the sun via a rocket. I think we're all in agreement...

On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 23:55:49 -0600, "David M. Palmer" wrote: Also there are some of the same pictures 'after post-processing'...

(John Schilling) wrote in message ... "Dreamer" writes: Their text...

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I had to go to http://www.space.com and was able to get a link to watch the space walk. "Morgoth Bauglir" wrote in...

It seems like the Shuttle Return-To-Flight date keeps being pushed back. There also seem to be a lot of unanticipated safety issues that have come up. With...