February 13, 2004 from Mars? http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/1/p/020/1P129965448EFF0352F0006L8M1.JPG Thomas Lee...

I was surfing through rec.travel.air, and someone had posted this link to an image of a botched paint job on a United Airlines...

How many times does a man have to go to the Moon to prove he has been there? The answer is 6 times. Apollo 9 - the famous and awesome trip Apollo 10 - didn't...

February 19, 2004 But not MER instrument spectra. Show US the spectroscopy, assholes. Thomas Lee Elifritz http://elifritz.members.atlantic.net

IMO, the main problem with prizes is that prizes do not do much to encourage sponsorship or investment in competing teams. Corporate sponsors spend their...

Found at: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Moon-Mars.html Backers: Privatize Moon - Mars Mission Funds By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published:...

Okay, we've got X-33, X-34, X-37, X-38, and X-43 that've either failed or had big-time problems. Were there any X-type space-related projects during the...

February 19, 2004 Ok, let's see who we are dealing with in MERgate. Steve Squyres (Principal Investigator and asshole), Cornell...

I was just thinking, there may be a rather simple point that will make human spaceflight more or less irrelevant. Suppose at some point, quite possibly in just...

February 19, 2004 NASA - National Space Assholes JPL - Just Plain Lousy. Thomas Lee Elifritz http://elifritz.members.atlantic.net

No, not from the budget axe or the usual suspects, but from a far more pernicious foe: the TooMuchNewStuffAtOnceists. I sent the president's space commission...

Here is a scary thought: What if the Shuttle was canceled and the last HSF was Apollo-Soyuz? With out HSF would NASA still be here today? (If NASA still...

Of what's affordable and what's not; clearly of anything manned is going to be spendy and time consuming, not to mention potentially lethal. Though instead of...

Does anyone know of any assessments of the accuracy of the listings of various intelligence satellite launches that can be found among the other launches in...

A manned mission to visit one of the Viking landers could provide us info on how various materials on the landers have held up to the Martian atmosphere and...

John Savard wrote: but, as Robert Zubrin notes, it does seem to be the best place to set up a colony. However, are...

As soon as I hear VxWorks I get the impression that they went out and hired some engineers with C programming experience. These people do not want to know what...

NASA, or any government agency, can not and should not be involved in developing improved commercial launch systems. This is a job solely for private...

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Here's a leader who seems interested in...