Where is Saturn in sky over Huygens landing site? Given the known longitude of the Huygens landing site, how high above the horizon is saturn in the...

When I went to look for this treasure trove again, I couldn't find a link from the front page of the 'Space Reporter's Notebook', so I googled to get the...

I'm working additional 'old' URLs for articles of mine, for a major home page update, and came across another URL of a seminal historical piece I published 15...

See nasawatch.com for Friday's ISS On-Orbit Status Report, which celebrates the anniversary of a very unusual event -- what's going on...

I'm looking for a medium-res color image of the 1970-era 'mascot' of JPL, the "Great Galactic Ghoul" that ate -- or just bit -- Mars-bound spacecraft. A...

See http://allafrica.com/stories/200603210851.html Question is -- what are they still doing there? Here's the background article on 'Encyclopedia...

ISS Inventory -- Tracking how MANY items? I've heard various estimates of how many distinct items are currently being tracked by the IMS (Inventory Management...

see http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/23/AR2006032301691.html

I'm trying to count up the number of times the shuttle has launched with a single crewman on the middeck. Is there any handy-dandy on-line database that...

Actually, somebody stole a silver briefcase that happened to have lunar display samples the thief has no idea the significance of. They're already in a...

As the Expedition-12 crew is at the halfway mark on their mission, I'd like to write a profile of cosmonaut Tokarev for NBC's website. By all accounts he has...

Washington Post claims that Earth Solar System is Flat!! See Washington Post article by Guy Gugliotta on the planetoid Sedna, at...

I just came across a three-year-old posting about space junk from Baykonur. Sorry for the delay or for my not noticing (or forgetting -- it's...

I'm looking for information on what family members have attended launches of their near-and-dear ones at Baykonur, especially when the launchees are American...

See http://www.itar-tass.com/level2.html?GroupID=10 (in Russian), just which booster IS it being offered as showing DART's launch? This is only a week after...

Soyuz air leak during descent October 11 From information that I have received, the air leak in the Soyuz TMA-6 on October 11 was from about 780 mmHg to 680...

Some years ago somebody had been circulating tourist shots from Baykonur that showed people in the trolley that carried personnel up/down the diagonal tube...

NK (Zhelaznyakov and Samshutdinov) are reporting the death of Anatoliy Kartashov, a member of the 1960 'Gagarin cadre' of cosmonaut candidates, who was...

It sure was: "GPC fail to sync" was the first crew call after release. I was DPS Support in the MCC at the time. A big 'X' appeared on the PLT's CRT. "rk"...

When was the first time the shuttle launched with three crewmembers on the middeck? Wasn't it STS-9, Spacelab-1?