Enjoy: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/21/opinion/21FERR.html?ex=1072587600&en=bc915 0907c16ce4b&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE -- Mark R....

I heard a rumor that the original plan had Space Ship One performing its first X-Prize run on Dec 17, but that the aero troubles set them back a bit. Maybe...

This being December 24, 2003, 35 years to the day Apollo 8 orbited the Moon -- the first men ever to see Earthrise -- it is only appropriate that the second...

In honor of the centennial, I have an essay about the brothers Wright up at TechCentralStation: http://www.techcentralstation.com/121703D.html

"edo" wrote in message ... Why didnt NaSA just giv Niel and Buzz...

John Savard wrote: Why didn't the Wright Brothers invent the helicopter? Their engine didn't have the power-to-weight ratio needed. Paul

From the Washington Times: As is tradition at the annual holiday White House Basement Party, a Christmas poem - penned this year by Greg Clugston of Salem...

I've seen a lot of references to the use of solid metallic hydrogen as a very energetic explosive, but I've seen nothing on what metallic hydrogen would be...

I noticed the article about SpaceShipOne breaking the sound barrier and it got me to wondering how many of the X-Prize participants look like they will have...

The cover of "Space Manufacturing 5" has as a background image a portion of a reasonably nice looking blueprint of a Bernal Sphere space station ("Island...

I understand that in LEO there is a substantial concentration of very small debris, most of which cannot be tracked because it is too small. In fact the space...

"Michael Gardner" wrote: "Charleston" wrote: "Michael Gardner" wrote: ...

I had thought I remembered that the first posts in the then-brand-new sci.space reorg groups went out in early January 1994, but reviewing Google records found...

**I'm posting this in this NG as this post was rejected by the moderator...

From Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_colonization): Louis J. Halle, formerly of the United States Department of State, wrote in Foreign Affairs...

My latest Fox column, in which I discuss human motivators (*none* of which is cooperation), the historical basis for them, and the relevance to any potential...

Check it out here! http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=894 Tho, budget wise , I puzzle over what the White House and the Congress really want to...

Dear Gentlemen (and Girls as well!), we proposed a new newgroup sci.physics.strings that should be dedicated to string/M-theory, a leading candidate to...

On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 15:21:25 +0100, "asps" wrote: Subject: A revolutionary propulsion system We inform you of our the recent and...

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