on the way back to earth the LM was detached left to burn up..... just before CM re entry was there enough fuel in the upper stage to send the LMs upper...

Today: NASA is spending billions re-building yesterday's systems to fulfill a mission apparently designed to keep NASA people employed. I.e., rather than...

1) You get to pick and choose whatever news gets mainstream published. 2) You get to select, modify and/or banish whatever gets recorded as history. 3) You get...

Toledo, New Castille. March 1492. Today Don Miguel de Grifo, the head of the Royal Transatlantic Exploring Administration made the eagerly awaited...

As a follow-up to downsizing the Orion crew, are things now about to get even more Apollo-clone...

http://up-ship.com/blog/?p=5079 " Back in the 1950’s and 1960’s - you know, when there was actual progress in aerospace - aerospace companies and...

Pat Flannery wrote: On 2/5/2011 5:03 PM, David Spain wrote: Not a problem for a partnership of USA with ESA/JAXA and dare I say China? Split...

The film footage is excellent... but whoever edited that footage should be hung by the neck until dead, as it's a cocked-up disaster area as far as being...

Story he http://tinyurl.com/28gsc4 Mojave, Calif. -- Two people were killed and four others injured Thursday by an explosion at a Mojave Desert airport...

4 Pluto Was A MOON of NEPTUNE Pluto's present solar orbit CROSSES Neptune's solar orbit in TWO places. From...

I'm curious what Mars movie people like best. Most are pretty bad. I mean "Mission to Mars" with Gary Sinese and Tim Robbins (great in Shawshank Redemption)...

While rooting through a charity shop today I came across a bunch of 'How and Why Wonder Books' - one of which was 'Planets and interplanetary travel'. I...

Reading through the Judica Cordiglia's book, one interesting note: they recorded Tereshkova's voice in orbit (doppler effect detected), conversing with...

Anyone who has read James Michener's "Space," or watched the TV miniseries based upon it, will have been exposed to the notion that one person -- John Houbolt,...

First, this message is for whomever brought up this issue last night. I was so busy posting umpteen responses to everyone that Google kicked me off for a few...

Herb Schaltegger wrote: On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 10:23:29 -0500, Reed Snellenberger wrote (in article ): ...

the Soviet Union no longer exists Simulation date July X, 1970 10:00 A.M. Moscow Tme. Brush up on your history.

I think he's the only democratic contender that gives a damn. Energy prices are slowing the economy while massive deficits pile up. We need someone...

Has there ever been any proposals for a deep-space TDRS-style satellite for relaying telemetry from outer-planet missions such as New Horizons et al? I was...

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