Just something I've been wondering about. I doubt it, but from what I know of the 60's, it seems like every other person was puffing away. -- Fans Of The...

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/08/24/russia.planecrash/index.html If this isn't some sort of terrorism, it's the biggest coincidence ever. Of course,...

Now the Vertical Assembly Building is in the news right now, I'm finally moved to ask a question in here that I've been meaning to for quite some time. I have...

I was listening to the DVD of the Apollo 11 Moonwalk, with the flight controller's loop on. A controller reports that Lick Observatory got a laser return from...

I was watching some Apollo footage on TV, and I saw one or two of the 16 mm films taken from the LM as it lifted off from the Moon. This was not the Apollo 11...

So many things were going wrong near the end of Cooper's Mercury flight - did the flight director consider bringing him down early?

In Buzz's book "Magnificant Desolation", page 16, he writes that Tom Paine said "If oyu have to abort, I'll see that you fly the next moon landing flight. ...

Could the Apollo program (not counting Skylab and ASTP) have been completed without the group 5 astronauts? It was mainly the group 2 and group 3 astronauts...

It is often stated that Neil took manual control of the LM to fly past a bad landing site. But wasn't it planned that the CDR would take over at some point?

Back at the time, I wondered why pad 39B was built. At the time, launches were not so frequent that a second Saturn V pad was needed, it seemed. I thought...

I would guess that being in the LM for more than a few hours was pretty uncomfortable. Is that right? There were no seats or beds, right? And of course it...

I read a quote from Gunter Wendt (sp?) (I think) saying that when Liberty Bell 7's hatch blew, the helicopter had not latched on. Of course at some point it...

I was looking at the Max G data for manned spacecraft at http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/history/ The Mercury-Redstone flights had a max G of 11-11.1. ...

After the explosion on A13, the SM was not able to supply any life support, and trying to use the engine would have been too risky. The LM engines didn't have...

On 1 Sep 2003 08:12:19 -0700, (Jaak Suurpere) wrote: Astrology works on the surface of Earth. Or doesn't work.

When Mattingly was pulled off of Apollo 13, the rest of the primary crew remained. Up until then I had always heard that if a crew change would have to be...

Photos of the Opportunity Mars mission staging, taken from on board: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap030922.html

Thanks everyone. I've asked a lot of questions here, mostly things I've wondered about since I was a kid in the 60's. I think I've asked all of the questions...

Suppose you have a spacecraft in a circular orbit around the Earth, and you point the nose toward the Earth. As it goes around in its orbit, does it keeps its...

If A11 had failed to land, how soon could the next attempt have been? One month, two months, other?