At Edwards AFB on July 4, 1982, after the fourth space shuttle landing, President Reagan declared the shuttle "operational." Despite twenty more successful...

The MERs are going a centimeter per second or so and won't come very far. But the Lunokhod rovers covered about 100 km on the Moon. Actually speed is not that...

Dwayne A. Day picks apart the *Aviation Week* account of a secret two-stage "Blackstar" spaceplane, while reminding us of earlier highly-speculative scoops...

I'm interested in the on-board GPS navigation system that Surray Satellite Centre has been producing. Does anybody have a list of foreign satellites that have...

In the TV show "First on the moon: the untold story", Jack Garman says that the screens on the consoles weren't computer screens showing live data, they were...

I've been reading a lot about Gemini lately, and the following questions have come to mind. Can anyone answer them for me? These are areas/buildings that are...

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...

Thomas Lee Elifritz wrote: http://cosmic.lifeform.org/?p=169 NASA Watch covered it too. Michael Griffin goes fascist. NOAA under Conrad...

Select dates from chronology... 3 October 1987 Chuck Yeager sets new air speed record of Mach 6.7 in the X-15 24 December 1967 Apollo 8 enters moon orbit....

Crew Exploration Vehicle...

I've just this week made available a reprint of a "lost" classic spaceflight novel, "The Moon-Maker", by Arthur Train and Robert Williams Wood. It's plot...

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0507/29planet/

We frequently see quoted prices for Soyuz, Proton and Zenit launches that are a lot lower than those for US ELVs or Arianespace. Often those prices are cited...

Trevor Morris wrote: I just got a 1980s book "Warplanes of the Future" that mentions a proposed Trans-Atmospheric Vehicle. That obviously never happened. ...

"James Gifford" wrote in message ... Six-eight years ago, I corresponded with...

How many different spoken languages have been used in space? Obviously English, Russian and Chinese are on the list. Others? Gareth -- "Stupid...

Does anybody know how the panels that covered the LEM worked? In particular, how they were held together and sealed, what signalled them to begin their...

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/12/15/obit.proxmire.ap/index.html ....Good ****ing riddance, I say. OM -- ]===================================== OMBlog -...

This is what happens when DARPA employees start watching too many old sci-fi TV series: http://www.darpa.mil/TTO/programs/cormorant.htm Pat

Dear Herb, This is totally off-topic, but I wonder if you know, off the top of your head, what laws Tennessee has regarding internet stalking. I've got a...