Finally something noteworthy for the lj. Clicky: http://www.livejournal.com/users/ogw/10021.html -- This is a siggy | To E-mail, do note | This...

As I was walking home just moments ago, perhaps 8:01-8:02 EST, I saw a very bight light less than a finger's distance from Betelgeuse to the east, moving...

Interesting article on the faults of a PowerPoint presentation: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/29/AR2005082901444.html Pat

I know that billionaire entrepreneur in Las Vegas has a "space hotel" designed and built, but he is leaving it to others to build the shuttle that will get the...

The Science Channel has some interesting space-related programs coming up; On Thursday, Jan.13th, "Rendezvous With Saturn's Moon" about the Huygen's probe...

help please, I need advice on using my celestron powerseeker 114 telescope, images are blurred?

Distant planet judged possibly habitable In findings that if confirmed could stand as a landmark in history, astronomers report finding the most Earth-like...

Meridiani has a very strange feature. There are craters and no ejecta. Is the ejecta all covered by some recent event? If so, why is the surface surrounding...

James Oberg wrote an article in 1982 about how a lot of Soviet UFO sightings were actually secret rocket tests and test warhead...

I'm almost sure to have discovered, in one of the last images released by JPL/MER and acquired by MER-A navigation camera on Sol 13, the backshell and the...

I just had an idea. It probably wouldn't work but I was wondering if anyone had thought of it, and found why it doesn't work. The ideal shape for an expansion...

rk wrote: Hi, In response to my earlier post we have received a number of very nice letters, including offers of support for the hosting, helping with...

In article , says... Burt Rutan, the man responsible for more innovations in modern ...

I was reading NASA's return to flight summary. To fix the cause of foam shedding from the left bipod ramp, the summary says that it will be redesigned to...

Anybody else catch that photos 6.1-2 and 6.1-3 on page 123 of the CAIB report are reversed? White ET insulation foam was used on the _earlier_ flights. Pay

http://www.alltel.net/~estar/orbiter.html Animated parachutes like the most recent gemini. The Retrograde clock and timer. Automatic calculation of retro time...

Along Jefferson Drive, on the south side of the National Mall in Washington DC, there is a series of plaques describing the planets, in relative distance from...

From the British Antarctic Survey is a report on understanding radiation hazards wrt to the Van Allen Belts and space weather. See...

I have some brief thoughts on the significance of October 4th. http://www.transterrestrial.com/archives/004361.html#004361

Congratulations all of this rare event that happens once in a hundred years!