This book is hilarious!! And it's all online at: http://missilegate.com/rfz/index.htm Enjoy! Jim Davis

From time to time listings will appear on eBay claiming to be the 1st edition of Clarke's "The Exploration of Space". For...

Has anyone read this book? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6575242883 How does it stack up against similar early works by Clarke and...

"The author of this book, a distinguished member of the Interplanetary Society of England, explains to you the scientific facts that prove that Saucers have...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp- dyn/content/article/2005/08/10/AR2005081002167.html Jim Davis

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Lane Smith, the actor who portrayed newsman Emmett Seaborn in the miniseries "From Earth to the Moon", died Monday at age 69. Jim Davis

I'm curious whether the Apollo BPC needed an Apollo CM beneath it in order to take the loads imposed during launch. To be more specific: If there were a...

Does anyone else who attended grade school in the mid '60s remember this from the 1966 World Book...

I heard several times that CDR and PLT were practicing landings on a laptop simulator. Is the program available to the public? Thanks -- Jim in...

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I admit I haven't checked how much traffic there is on alt.politics, but I'm guessing it has to be MUCH less than the off-topic political discussions on the...

Now we know why the success rate of spacecraft to Mars has been so low. According to the text associated with this image:...

From an anniversary announcement on sci.space.news: "Viking 1 was launched August 20, 1975, and arrived at Mars June 19, 1976. On July 20, 1976, the Viking 1...

Dr. Judith Resnick also perished on Challenger, along with the male members of the crew. They seem not to be as well remembered in the public mind. "JR" was...

The 1943 Sanger-Bredt proposal for rocket-range extension via atmospheric skip has been discussed here before. I first read about it in 1956, when I got a...

The idea may be notoriously unsexy -- it was when I floated it here a few years ago -- but are there any new thoughts about the advisability of setting up a...

PLONK -- Jim McLaughlin Reply address is deliberately munged. If you really need to reply directly, try: jimdotmclaughlinatcomcastdotcom And you know it...

A friend asked: //Was the first song heard from outer space "Fly Me To The Moon"// I think the first music was the 'Internationale', played by a Russian...