New SpaceX video showing the Dragon capsule using its escape system engines to land on Mars: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p6EruPdoXY Pat

It is unlikely that the four nuclear reactors under duress at Fukushima will ever be used again. There have been some suggestions that all four reactors be...

Trouble with the APU heaters: http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts134/110429scrub/ The APU's use hydrazine for fuel, and they need to have their fuel lines...

"The People's Republic of China will go it alone to assemble a small manned space station in orbit this decade, according to plans announced by officials...

wrote: The heliosheath is a very strange place, filled with a magnetic froth no spacecraft has ever encountered before, echoing...

To be worked on for tourist flights. They've taken the reentry module and moved it to the other end, which means it would have to be launched inverted from...

"In a statement released yesterday, Musk and SpaceX also make the bold claim that the Dragon, once fitted with modifications that the company is now...

It's started! For all those that complain that the US should now go after every other dictator, like in Yemen and Bahrain and so on. I say it's not practical,...

"The thing about the Iron Curtain is that we'll never fully know what crazy **** went on behind it during the Cold War. And that's too bad, because the...

I was struck by the images Pat Flannery provided of the Russian rockets and remarks on how they are slightly evolved from the V2. Extreme simplicity works and...

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2011-03/03/c_13759948.htm China is planning to build a rocket that surpasses the mighty Saturn V in payload...

In article , says... NASA ANNOUNCES NEW HOMES FOR SHUTTLE ORBITERS AFTER RETIREMENT JSC and USAF...

All over the world celebrations are planned for the 50 years after the first man went into space. The feat of Youri Gagarin was a real schock for the american...

http://www.astrobotictechnology.com/ Interesting, to say the least.

The Russian rockets such as the ones used for the Soyuz have the strap on boosters oriented so their axes angle into the core rocket whereas US rockets have...

On Apr 12, 9:45Â*am, American wrote: On Apr 12, 7:19Â*am, wrote:

"Fred J. McCall" wrote in message ... bob haller wrote: after...

Make that 1911: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramids_of_Mars "Pat Flannery" wrote in message...

China can kill US carrier task groups and US...

The Devils also believe, and tremble. "Intrepid" wrote in message...