It appears that MEX has two serious problems, which for some reason are not being covered by the media: Communications - lack of sufficient ESA capacity has...

Solar System Surprise: A New View of What's Out There. By Robert Roy Britt Senior Science Writer posted: 22 November 2004 06:24 am ET "Given that our survey...

What's happened to the newsgroup, before I left the Internet a little over a year ago, there used to be regular technical postings to it, now after lurking for...

Anyone seen this yet?: http://www.aviationnow.com/avnow/news/channel_businessweekly_story.jsp?id=news/SSO11014.xml Sounds almost like the reemergence of the...

(Henry Spencer) : I wrote: Seriously, isn't it about time someone gave some serious thought to an ultra-minimal personal...

Northrup Grumman and Boeing announced on Nov. 9 '04 that Northrup, er Grumman, will serve as the "team's leader and prime contractor during the initial...

According to the following story, "http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=2&u=/ap/20041124/ap_on_re_eu/us_ukraine" The U.S. (Sec of State Powell) is...

Hi, Since eugenics is banned on Earth, a new superior species biologically prepared for intergalactic travel will have to created in space,...

On 28 Nov 2004 07:00:32 -0800, (scott) wrote: "Alan Erskine" wrote in message...

"Alan Erskine" wrote in message ... "Halcitron" ...

When I see all space projects from state agencies or private sector, I regret each time what could be done with an ORION-like space system. Recall: ORION is a...

Imho Geology guys, help this math major out. This picture shows so much I...

The RR purchased a group of steel gons and flat cars from the EBT and WP&Y a couple of years back. The flats are for shipping heavy gear to the dams on the...

Anyone know where I can get ahold of some HTPB/Papi94 and N20? I'm looking around and not finding a whole lot of options. *-----------------------* Posted...

I know that they stood down the last launch date due to some analysis of the second stage ingition sequence, but is this the prelude for an X-34 class program...

When I had to explain to my Geo 1 classes (who knew the diff between Britney and the Spice Girls, which I still don't) how to recognize limestone from...

I haven't seen many good photos of the Delta 4 second stage before, but several are now available at ksc.nasa.gov showing processing for the GOES-N...

The ESA lunar probe, SMART-1, will be searching for ice and other resources but will it provide any data useful for finding lava tubes? Also, will the images...

I want to conquer Ganymede or Io and install a belt of defence satellites to shoot all intruders. Is that legal or does space belong to the USA?

Read the recent progress re-boost only raised the orbit by something like two miles(?). Article said NASA and Russian space officials blamed extra drag...