2) Even if it is 2020, why hurry? The artificial deadline placed on Apollo helped force some design decisions that ensured that the program would...

With the success of Opportunity and Spirit, the planned 2007 Phoenix mission to land a static lander on Mars seems almost to be a limited mission. Clearly...

Can anyone tell me whatever happened to the Lunar Picture of the Day website? Since yesterday, everytime I go there, I keep...

So, folks, brace yourselves, watch the wrap and have a look...

They say it is a X-15; whatever it is, it isn't an X-15: http://www.collectspace.com/images/superior/x15model.html Some leftover from a black program? Pat

ZERO GRAVITY When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that ball-point pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat this...

Here is a bit of space history in the form of a new dedication website: http://www.thespaceexplorers.com Produced by: William Cayton Written, directed and...

The US largely forced russia to deep six Mir. What if that hadnt occured? where would the ISS be today? Would russia still help support it? Was dumping Mir...

Hi, This short message to tell you that I published a short history of amateur radio, 10 pages...

Sorry if this is old news - but this will be really cool! Brian ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hanks to blast off...

Now I know the reasons. the electronics would be fried by the van allen belts and besides the temoperature would be different, preventing the proper operation...

http://www.ianr81.homestead.com/files/thumba11.jpg http://www.geocities.com/ianr81/IanR81A11.html This is a mosiac that I have just finished working on that...

Hi, I am achieving a big file about the history of ham radio. I would like to know if someone could provide me any information, recording or picture about the...

It's called Night Watch; you can download it he http://www.pepsi.com/ads_and_history/ Pat

I'm a practicisg EE and would love to take a look at old electronics schematics and manuals for old space program vehicles! Are they available for public...

Well, it *is* about the moon. I don't know why, but I seem to be running across the weirdest space-related things,...

A brief but well illustrated article on the 4,000 ton, 85-foot diameter military Orion appears in the latest issue of Aerospace projects...

"*" wrote in I don't think NASA would appreciate you laughing at them. What DO you think? Look it up in a dictionary if the word puzzles...

Someone was asking this earlier, and I replied, but can't seem to find it anywhere. Anyway... Jenkins, third edition, pp246-7 discusses the debate on...

Since he hasn't seen fit to send it to this newsgroup yet, behold the extremely strange thing he discovered regarding the Mars rovers. At first I thought this...