http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Glenn In April 1959, despite the fact that Glenn had not earned the required college degree, he was assigned to the...

Everyone has seen the famous footage of a Saturn V first stage and interstage dropping off, and the third stage firing and pulling away - from the perspective...

Hi everyone, I went to see this film this weekend and really enjoyed it. I did however come across one thing. Just after they finish talking to Jim Lovell...

You know it's going to be a tough gig when they stick the body armor on you: http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/01/army-seeks-prof.html It will be interesting...

What if instead of our going with whatever's small, extremely cheap, fast and rad-hard robotic, what if going with larger is nearly always better? Perhaps...

In the recent discussions of the passing of Len Cormier, the reasons for the demise of the space ng's seem to keep coming up. Of course, most simply blame it...

....is up on You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eGiqqoYP5E It does indeed show roll oscillations, but it's hard to determine if those are abnormal or...

Back in fifth grade or so, a buddy and I use to be into model rockets. Well one day, while searching my older brother's room for his playboys, we found instead...

A Santa Claus Machine, named after the folkloric Santa Claus, is a hypothetical machine that is capable of creating any required object or structure out of any...

to slow it down? It was going , what, about 25,000 MPH? Or did it "crash" squarely enough into the atmosphere that it didn't need to?

US military unveils heat-ray gun BBC News - Thursday, 25 January 2007, 18:36 GMT http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6297149.stm The US military has given...

A business trip takes me tomorrow to south Florida for two weeks. I have a weekend available in-between. I'm a space buff, so I thought a day trip from Fort...

Rand Simberg wrote: On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 21:32:49 -0500, in a place far, far away, "Terrell Miller" made the phosphor on my monitor...

My new job-with its twelve hour shifts-gives me but little time to read the postings to sci.space.history (or eat and sleep for that matter) on day-to-day...

Well they got the spacesuit fairly right; as to where they got the rest...

HIROC just released the first shots of Oppurtunity at Victoria from orbit. Can even see the camera mast shadow. Can't wait to see what else they find, maybe...

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/061018_moon_water.html Pat

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097372/ this is for the ******s in america who like to think they achieved something by depleting so many human resources into...

Can anyone identify the section of missile airframe shown at the link below? The person in the image is the prefect of the Maryland Delaware...

"Hallerb" wrote in message ... Not in pittsburgh. The starting salary is in the $40,000...