Sorry if this is off topic. Does anybody know a good smart card reader site?. Should be a filled with technical specs since I'm doing research for a new...

OK, I'm slightly confused. A while back we had a thread in which it was stated (I believe) that ground tracking of the CSM was done by the comms system through...

The landing was thirty one years ago today. How time flies... -- simberg.interglobal.org * 310 372-7963 (CA) 307 739-1296 (Jackson Hole) interglobal space...

Neil Armstrong, in a very rare public appearance, said the following at a recent "Star Trek" fete honoring Jimmy "Scotty" Doohan... "This evening is really an...

Folk, You all have probably seen this news item: http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=12454 Note: 2003 QQ47 went from 1 to 0 on the Torino scale...

Hello: I have just posted a site map of the astronomy/space-related files on my web site at http://www.spacearchive.info/site-map.htm. The map provides a...

This subject was touched on a few years ago in one of the sci.space groups. Now that NASA has been given a new direction, maybe its time bring it up again. I...

Twas tasty. I went out to the beach earlier today, and noticed what I thought was a rocket on the pad. Came home to check on the web, and wow there's...

For those who chose not to read my dazzling account of last night's launch, I have a question. Are the SRB's used for Atlas and Delta launches...

Well, here was my night: http://www.livejournal.com/users/ogw/77348.html -- This is a siggy | To E-mail, do note | Just because something It's...

Would you like to eat lunch with Star Trek's Bob Picardo, own Carl Sagan's own copy of his sensational paper on extraterrestrial life, or chat about space...

Looking at the planned vehicles for the return to the moon, the article(s) seemed to emphasize leverage of shuttle technology. For example the use of SSMEs and...

The "Seasons on Gas Giant Moons" thread got me wondering... would a "binary" system of earth-like planets be possible? And what would happen once any...

Bioastronautics Bioastronautics, is study of biological adaptations the human body may have during long term space travel, in order to make the best...

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...

I ran across this at the local bookstore. It claims the true secret of Project Apollo was the management, particularly the kind of management that was created...

That's the title of this week's Fox News column, in which I tackle economic illiteracy, in the space movement and...

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

People have hailed the upcoming arrival at Mars of NASA's two Mars landers, Mars Express (with Beagle 2), and Japan's Nozomi. The Nozomi team has managed to...

Yahoo/Associated Press report that 2 categories of CCs went unclaimed this weekend. Elevator climbers and cable builders both failed to reach the prize. see...