After the news of XSS-11 launch back in April, we were promised a rendezvous test Real Soon Now. Did this happen? Did we miss it? Or, are preparations for the...

From this article: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2005-06-21-space-station_x.htm NASA had planned at least 28 more shuttle flights to the...

Congrats to the NASA Deep Impact team, for a bullseye hit on the target region on Comet Tempel-1, and a spectacular fireworks show on the flyby...

In sci.space.policy Sander Vesik wrote: In sci.space.policy Scott Hedrick wrote: Exactly so- the flaw...

Even though it would be very risky, it would be possible for a private expedition to Mars to be planned. The status of being the first person on Mars is so...

In article , "Brian Gaff" wrote: I suppose every time any manned device is used,...

I wonder what the value of lunar infrastructure would be. It occurs to me that anything we might want to do in space would be much cheaper if we did it from...

Andi Kleen wrote: From http://spacex.com/index.html?section=updates&content=http%3A//spacex.com/updates.php They must be pretty annoyed to be hold...

I was thinking, if NASA does go with the Inline SDLV, why only limit themselves to 2 SRB's? Since the ET and LC-39 is going to require a significant redesign...

Domo Arigato, Ms. Roboto: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/06/0610_050610_robot.html Pat

(David Johnston) : I'm still betting that in an artificial habitat where one false move can endanger everyone else's lives and...

60 Minutes will be doing a segment on space tourism tonight at 7pm EDT Pat

Innovations in transport are going to be key to the advance of civilisation with the minimum of pain in the coming centruy. I have created a Group for this...

Has anyone figured out how to block senders or delete messages/threads in Thunderbird? I can't seem to explain to anyone at Mozilla why it's even...

Scott Lowther wrote: Henry Spencer wrote: Triumphant People's Socialist Vanquisher of Evil Capitalist Rockets ...

In sci.space.policy George William Herbert wrote: Michael Kent wrote: I'm sure you're familiar...

I've been working on a book on US Bomber Projects for some years now. Up until recently, that work was mostly in the form of gathering information... design...

Jeff Foust // A stroll down Abbey Lane The Space Review // Monday, July 11, 2005 http://www.thespacereview.com/article/407/1 There are many things that are...

This is a set of links to my Internet articles - most of them written for NBC and posted on their msnbc.com 'space page' - related to the Columbia...

Do you think it is a good idea to terraform Mars or the moon or any other planet?