http://www.spacedaily.com/news/rocketscience-03zy.html This article lists some very compelling reasons why the OSP should be a capsule.

The recently reviewed Orbital Space Plane Level II Requirements http://www.ospnews.com/osp_srr.pdf (executive summary) make no mention of reusability. Given...

I have read that the greatest cost component for NASA in a launch is overhead and this is very understandable. They have large fixed assetts with large costs...

Joann Evans in his last post sent me a url regarding Pegasus. The web page had several pages of Pegasus, and the now civilian aircraft used to launch...

Firstly, could someone please explain to me why a space elevator is a good idea, period, I just do not get it. I can not help but see a space elevator in the...

As is obvious by my previous post reply and other mars posts show nothing of any serious work has been conducted by NASA for a human mission to Mars as yet,...

On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 01:40:17 +0000 (UTC), Ian Stirling wrote: In sci.space.policy Brad Guth wrote: Obviously...

Ugh. Is there a FAQ for the sci.space.* groups around anywhere? John

Testing of Russian "space parachute" for returning cargoes to earth postponed Moscow, 23 September: Tests of the Russian "space parachute" Demonstrator-2 have...

I grabbed this off the Mars Society Web Sight today. What got my attention is that Sean O'Keefe said that it represented "wrong headed thinking." Anybody know...

What happened to the anti-nuke crowd that used to come out of the woodwork whenever there was a Cassini fly-by? About how the plutonium could...

In today's Star Ledger (and likely many other papers) there was an article about how ISS is "an accident waiting to happen". Because of poor communication...

http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/people/journals/space/katnik/sts87-12-23.html Excerpt: ------ STS-87 is Home! The Post-Flight Inspection Begins by Greg...

Rand Simberg writes: Do you have a citation that attributes a "total development cost" of $12 billion for OSP to any named source within NASA? Not...

Back in the the sixties there were three new spacecraft in 10 years. Now we might get one in the next ten years. Is the difference just caused by funding, or...

That's the title of my latest column at Tech Central Station, in which I discuss why the economics of OSP make no...

Sorry for posting this rather late, we're a little disorganized... ------------------- The Canadian Space Society is proud to announce the 2003 Space...

I have another column this week on why space stuff costs so much--because we expect it...

In deciding whether or not to fund NASA's proposed Orbital Space Plane - a "space taxi" dedicated to crew transport, in contrast to the current "space truck" -...

Hello, i found this news from a failed rocket launch: http://china-spacenews.com/News/news_detail.asp?id=6958 Unfortunately it is in chinese and the Bablefish...