Hi All: I've posted a rather nice photo of last Tuesday's Gravity Probe B launch from Vandenberg AFB on my web site...

Reading the Penn State announcement of an H2-producing fuel cell led me to this one which may have more immediate space...

How the Mars "blueberries" formed: The Martian surface was wet. Lots of muddy flats. Impacts on the flats. Mud, "atomized" and sprayed high in the cold,...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 20, 2005 "Suited for Mars: An Advanced Spacesuits Symposium." Imagine you're 5 kilometers from the habitat module on Mars and...

X-hybrid: X-plane shuttle & Solar System Utility Vehicle SSUV This vehicle is a result of my prvious designs of X-planes and is the result of many years of...

40 teams listed at end of http://www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge/NQE_Press_Release.pdf "DARPA selected the semifinalists from a field of 118 entrants,...

They have a Quicktime movie up made up from pictures from Opportunity showing the rover getting itself unstuck from the...

There's an interesting account at http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=1034 of a talk that Mike Griffin (NASA administrator) gave about...

Direct hit on a comet: http://www.spaceflightnow.com/deepimpact/050704firstcloseups.html More photes expected shortly. Pat

Dear all, I've created a face-on map of our region of the Milky Way galaxy - within 10 thousand parsecs of the Sun, or over thirty thousand light years. (That...

Hi All: Last year I photographed the Delta II rocket/Gravity Probe B launch from Vandenberg AFB. The negatives were recently scanned and I have posted some of...

Full story posted at: http://www.spacearchive.info/news-2004-05-09-di.htm Regards, Brian Webb

Hi All: NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft is set for launch on Sunday night-Monday morning. The craft should be visible with simple optical assistance shortly after...

In few hours NASA's Messenger orbiter will be launched toward Mercury. And the new MESSENGER Mission group has just...

Here's an interesting link (from NASAWATCH.com): http://www.sandroid.org/Apollo/index.html Jon

Fred Whipple, of the "dirty iceball" comet theory, passed away Monday (2004.08.30) at age 97. Whipple was also the the inventor the space debris protection...

My experience is that a large portion of the NASA budget is spent on payroll. There are many more people doing a project than are necessary. About 90% of the...

This is actually an aircraft event, but of interest to sci.space.* because of multi-engine discussions (and frequent upwellings of trans-atlantic EOP rules...

NOTICE: This Email Is A "Resend", Due To Strange Errors, Which Appeared In The Original Email? We do not know How These Errors Occurred, But As A Precaution,...

We know what happens with black holes and what will probably happen when 2 singularities collide in our universe, But what if two branes of existence get to...