Double check your local cable channel for History Channel listings Premiere episode tonight (October 17) at 10 PM Eastern / 9:00 PM Central / 7:00 PM...

Recently I happened to be flipping through channels and came across a press conference on the NASA channel that was talking about the spacewalk to pull the...

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/news_space_thewritestuff/2008/08/russian-invasio.html If we aren't going to be able to get to it after Shuttle retirement, we...

Remember how we were going to have the Endeavour rescue Shuttle on 39B ready to go in case Atlantis got marooned in orbit? Well, guess what? Maybe we don't...

I wasn't able to identify the coastline, but it looked like they launched north, toward Nova Scotia. There's a final burn in six minutes, to circularize the...

Pat, Forget that H2O2 dream and focus on how you got to that dream in the first place! All this baby needs is the giant tanks of Sam Adams and the human crew...

http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/news/uploads/LROCiotw/M104634241LE_annotated.png****** WOW............Doc

Why is it when I try to respond to you I get this error message. "The message could not be sent because one of the recipients was rejected by the server. The...

I have some PDFs and images of winged Gemini, but I don't have any large -- and clear -- images of the thing from the side. Does anyone know where I could get...

I was looking at some cutaways of spacecraft, and am trying to figure something out. Both Gemini and Apollo incorporated significant cooling radiators in the...

Been a while since it was updated; anyone know why it's been so long?

I was just watching a show on National Geographic Channel about the deadly planets. They mentioned that the telescopes on Keck Observatory could detect a...

....Well, the Ex - who I guess is now the Not-So-Ex again - and I went to see "The Astronaut Farmer" tonight. It was partially my way of getting back at her...

Just a brief topic reminder, that I tend to snip and/or ignore whatever is boring or infomercial crapolla. Sorry about that, although I will from time to time...

This says a lot about grounding internal electronics and fuel tanks in airliners: http://www.coasttocoastam.com/gen/page2173.html?theme=light One of the...

I was just watching the DVD of Apollo 17. During launch, I heard Gene Cernan tell the other two guys to get ready for staging and to hold on. shortly after,...

Twin fuselages, four turbofans: http://content.zdnet.com/2346-10532_22-184522-1.html Pat

Dennis Wingo on NASASpaceflight.com : http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=11586&start=436 "for some reason NASA does not want to buy...

Just announced today, finally available for sale, a 1/288 scale "Collier's" Ferry Rocket as designed by von Braun and painted by Bonestell and Rolf Klep. This...

Rockets mounted in the RV would serve as both a full-envelope LES, and a vertical landing system on return, though a reserve emergency parachute system would...