Hi folks, I just browsed a bit around, an I begin to wonder, what was the smallest launch vehicle, that ever reached an orbit by own means - so please exclude...

The story of how the Soviets used German rocket engineers to get design input for their postwar missile work is an interesting one, and some of the...

I just saw a video clip of "MARRS", "Pump up the Volume" from the 1980s. Its a collection of very short film sequenzes of US and SU manned and unmanned...

rk wrote: Doing my assigned reading, I ran into an interesting table, reproduced in part he ...

Pete Conrad then moved to Circuit Breaker Relay Module 15. Acting on instructions from the ground, he hit it with a hammer to free a stuck relay. This low-tech...

rk wrote: Doing my assigned reading, I ran into an interesting table, reproduced in part he ...

rk wrote: I recall reading somewhere about a GPC fault on the first ALT flight. But I'm not sure and was chatting about this with a friend. A search ...

Pat Flannery wrote: The Peenemunde team was working on a very large motor for the A-10 first stage for the two-stage A-9/A-10 ICBM project. They...

wrote: Sounds like a nice story, but where shall the German knowledge come from? Was there realy a BIG Nazi engine ever in...

There's a story about that- after the war the Soviets got their hands on the German V-2 engine and some of the engineers who built it (we got the top...

The abort system tester for the CEV: http://www.usspacenews.com/ Pat

"Mike Lorrey" wrote: Could the LH2 mania have been a KGB plot through the American left to sabotage the US space program? That is...

http://www.comicbookresources.com/columns/?column=4 ....Most interesting point? He makes the comparison between Lockmart's winged CEV proposal, and the ANSA...

Gov't releases proposed space tourism rules Link to Associated Press article: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=1453523&page=1 Link to FAA...

I know what Outer Space is, but I have also heard of Inner Space. What is Inner Space? Brian

I was digging around for that space station design and came across this photo of a full scale mock-up of a Soviet space-to-space homing...

"Brad Guth" wrote in message ... As a topic offered by; Seth / Dec 20,...

Space food a la carte By Caroline Wyatt BBC News, Paris Sunday, 25 December 2005 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4558952.stm A leading French chef has...

OK, not quite space I know, but does anyone have pointer to good info on the J-58 and friends? Uni library is shut at the moment so I can go rattle the...

I was looking at the cover of an ancient science fiction novel. http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/1417/highcrusade0bj.jpg I suddenly realized that I had seen...