"Is firing a rocket from the ground straight up into space the right way to do things? It sure was in the 1950s and ‘60s and it persists today. But it’s still...

With falcon doing so well why bother spending money on a nasa dedicated capsule system?' they will still be documenting their plans when falcon has hauled...

The SpaceX Dragon capsule has landed off the coast of Californiyeeeah! Congratulations to Elon Musk and NASA! It must be a sad day at Boeing where the EELV's...

On Nov 14, 7:39*am, Robert Clark wrote: ... *To get to the lunar surface from LEO would require a delta-V of 5.93 km/s. The...

The Earth As a Planet. Science has shown that it is highly efficient at doing things when enough people put enough resources behind the right sorts...

Remember how much trouble I got in for saying that I thought NASA skews its research results to get more funding? Well, guess what?:...

On Dec 5, 10:57*pm, Pat Flannery wrote: Up went the Proton, then down came the Proton off Gilligan's...

On 12/5/2010 7:15 PM, Pat Flannery wrote: Blok DuMps another one in the drink. What's their quality control problem? They've had problems with...

The "barbeque roll" of the Apollo missions - it was necessary only when not in orbit around Earth or the Moon yes? (Since the craft would spend half its time...

wrote: CONTRACT RELEASE: C10-079 NASA AWARDS SPACE STATION CARGO MISSION SERVICES CONTRACT WASHINGTON -- NASA has awarded a...

On Dec 3, 7:05*pm, HVAC wrote: On 12/1/2010 12:23 AM, Mike Dworetsky wrote: Space multielement interferometers are "practical",...

Guess what Neil and Buzz found up on the Moon?: http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b215210_transformers_3_trailer_its_all_nasas.html Steven Spielberg is dead set...

I mentioned a few years ago in these postings that I met with Warren Buffett in New York City. I discussed a paper I presented to OSTP at the White House a...

Well, if I'm charged with rape in Sweden, and Interpol drags my ass over there for trial, it will be due to the combo of the words "Wikileaks" and "Download"...

At http://www.spaceflightnow.com/falcon9/002/splashdown/ one of the images: http://www.spaceflightnow.com/falcon9/002/splashdown/chutes1.jpg shows a second,...

http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/china-space-exploration-missions- 101206.html China wants to send manned expeditions to the Moon and Mars. Go...

On Dec 7, 2:02*pm, Quadibloc wrote: On Monday, December 6, 2010 11:33:19 PM UTC-7, flanner wrote: As Leslie Ann Pluhar found out, the...

wrote: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/23nov_aliencomets/ The Sun Steals Comets from Other Stars ...

Today SpaceX will attempt to launch the Falcon 9 with a Dragon capsule into orbit, fly several orbits and then perform a reentry, culminating in a parachute...

http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/secret-x-37b-robot-space-plane- landing-101203.html A successful landing in California wraps up the X-37B's 220 day...