Hi all. This will be primarily of interest to aviation enthusiasts, but there are a few gems here for space buffs. ...

A legend in the US space programme, Guenter Wendt, passed away today at the age of 86. Cheers, Guenter, and raise your glass in memory of the Pad Fuhrer.

Giant daggett, and bottom half of a Godsdamned Cylon...

The shape of the Vanguard 2 satellite became so iconic that for most of the 1960's if you asked someone to draw a satellite, they would draw a sphere with...

As I recall the cold war-winning effect of the cruise missile, it was the HINT to the paranoid commies that every Delikat-Essen panel truck was a weapon aimed...

http://www.historyshots.com/Space/index.cfm The site actually has a number of really cool posters. Anyway, if you're looking to get me any Christmas...

"Rick Jones" wrote in message ... In sci.space.history Jeff Findley ...

"Pat Flannery" skrev i meddelelsen ... Don't you you just hate it...

On 4/29/2010 6:05 PM, Pat Flannery wrote: On 4/29/2010 12:19 PM, Rick Jones wrote: Those things expand considerably at altitude don't they? Yeah,...

On 4/29/2010 3:59 PM, Dre wrote: From what I've heard (I'm live in Aus) on the news, the release let go too early when a gust of wind picked up and...

""Niels Jørgen Kruse"" wrote in message ... Too much wind. Yep it looks...

Do all satellites travel the same direction as the earth spins when in orbit? My understanding is that they are launched in that direction to get added...

I ran a little survey and selected the most popular articles from the last three volumes of the original print run of Aerospace Projects Review. These articles...

A Falcon hypersonic glide vehicle that Lockheed-Martin built for DARPA lost ground contact after separating from its Minotaur booster rather than flying...

Watch the skies! Keep watching the skies!: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/25/stephen-hawking-aliens_n_551035.html Any alien species that can build...

Several years ago, PBS had a documentary whose name I can't remember, but I think that is was simply an American history of the year 1968. According to that...

You have been served, space station: http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2010/04/20-years-later-hubble-humans-and-the-future-of-space-flight/39212/ Pat

Gents, has anyone seen this article on thespacereview.com? The author compares ObamaSpace to the Gemini program, which served as the technology demonstrator...

Forty-nine years on... -- Gordon Davie Edinburgh, Scotland "Slipped the surly bonds of Earth...to touch the face of God."

.. .. That the ideas of what we are as a simpled gang oriented society, is in the mixing stages. What is a Gang in space calleD.