http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/01/08/bush/index.html "...an official said. NASA's target for a moon mission is 2018. " 'If the Chinese are going,...

Umm, does anyone else find it funny that the leading manned spacefairing nation on earth is now (effectively) ....... Kazakhstan ?

Anybody have a time as to when this is? Need to set the VCR... -- Scott Lowther, Engineer Remove the obvious (capitalized) anti-spam gibberish from the...

(vthokie) wrote in : Does the Bush administration's unfortunate decision to...

NBC Nightly News tonight reported that President Bush will unveil his space policy "next week" and that the plans would include a long-range proposal for...

The NASAtanists and Earth pickers and enviro-satanists have done it again thinking they no more about the Godly universe than He Himself as said in the Holy...

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2004-01-05-space-station_x.htm CAPE CANAVERAL (AP) - The international space station is experiencing a slow, steady drop...

"Tom Merkle" wrote in message ... Actually I have no real factual basis for this. But...

In article , "Dr. O" dr.o@xxxxx wrote: "Steve Dufour" wrote in message ...

President Bush's (search) plan to build a space station on the moon and eventually send astronauts to Mars hasn't grabbed the public's imagination, an...

"R F L Henley" skrev i en meddelelse ... unless and until we have...

Although they're considering a controversial fission reactor to power it, I'm very impressed by the design of the propulsion system for the JIMO mission. It's...

Suppose we set up a Lunar colony. Has anybody worked out the weight of the various elements we'd need? Assumptions: 1. 10 people, 2 goats, 2 dogs, and 2...

I'm brainstorming about the upcoming Mars program, and I have a bunch of questions that are now bugging me: * What's the payload to a LEO parking orbit, and...

On 9 Jan 2004 15:12:41 -0800, (Parallax) wrote: What are we missing in this space initiative of his, international cooperation maybe,...

Thanks for the news Ron!

This was the final paragraph of yesterday's (Jan 9) JPL press release for the Mars Rover, as posted on their web ste. Does anybody else find a little...

Just looking at the rocks on the floor of Gusev crater - they are rounded. This implies water (or some other fluid) erosion. I think from that first colour...

(Parallax) wrote in : Might it be possible to raise the surface temp and...

I'm looking for diagrams of high-power (hudreds of kW is good, multi-megawatt is better) *modern* space nuclear power reactors. Don't need to be high detail,...