(Johnny1A) wrote: snip handwaving scenario as to why this might be a good thing. What I am wondering is: once the location was...

With all this talk about the CEV, I thought I'd try to drag the discussion over to NASA COTS and ISS resupply. The latest pictures on Space-X's web site of...

ABC news just had a breaking story that states that the tile damage on the Shuttle goes clean through the silica layer of the tile and that the felt...

Nobody has noticed, just a small notice hidden at the deep of the scientific sections of the news when there is one. In a society obsessed with the short...

Electronic Telegram No. 1254 Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION M.S. 18, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory,...

Is the 2029 NEO encounter of #99942/Apophis of 100,000+ tonnes passing at 35,406 km (less than a tenth the distance to our moon) close enough? How about...

There's a thread in this newsgroup titled, 'Heavy lift design for mining/cargo propulsion' which I think misses a key point. This point is, business in space...

The Ares I launch vehicle, and its Orion mega capsule, have no scientific, technological, physical or financial foundation at all. NASA's Ares I and Orion...

Russia's invasion of the small, democratic country of Georgia may well usher in the start of a second Cold War. The United States and her allies must surely be...

We will need vast explosives both in near Earth and local interplanetary space to benefit mankind in more ways than one. To meaningfully deflect asteroid risks...

I've had this nagging idea at the back of my head for some time. (no it's not a tick) When NASA is finally finished with the Shuttle fleet (if it ever is) why...

Other than the immediate response of "Lots!", try to list _all_ the little problems inherent in it: http://sun3.lib.uci.edu/~jsisson/gifs/spacema.gif Starting...

Okay, getting all "xeno" for a moment, what would it take to have "life" on Titan? Mean surface temperature is around -178 degrees C, at about 1.5 Earth...

How many knew about this test? The Air Force (US variety) drop (parachute) launched a Castor 4B-based test missile from a C-17 on September 26 to test the...

Whats with the lame CEV windows on all the nasa drawings? I understand the design will change a bit, but is there is technical reason to need little tiny...

Free commodities are abused. I feel that a one-cent per outgoing email fee could be an effective anti-spam weapon. Perhaps a $10 fee for top-posting on...

I wonder if somebody has intentionally left that vent valve open. I am thinking of going for the Bigelow space prize (50M) with my TSTO concept using LOX-LPG....

On 20 Jun 2006 06:53:23 -0700, " wrote: Paul F. Dietz wrote: Safety has a cost. If the 'cutting corners' saves...

I guess I’m ok with this. We get a fifth planet, representing asteroids, the Sun is the Origin (0), and everything else 10 and above is a pluton. Then there...

"Apparently with no surprise To any happy flower, The frost beheads it at its play In accidental power. The blond assassin passes on, ...