As much as I am disdained at public postings of this nature on news groups, they do tend to serve as a focused group for this particular...

Fred Whipple, of the "dirty iceball" comet theory, passed away Monday (2004.08.30) at age 97. Whipple was also the the inventor the space debris protection...

From the British Antarctic Survey is a report on understanding radiation hazards wrt to the Van Allen Belts and space weather. See...

I read an article that said the life expectancy of the mars rovers was 90 days. Isn't it too short for $800 million machine? What limits it to 90 days?

With a new Website and Discussion Group.... http://spaceprojects.tk I have just added the BBS, and have many, many links including Hi & Low bandwidth links...

In few hours NASA's Messenger orbiter will be launched toward Mercury. And the new MESSENGER Mission group has just...

Hi all, I've gone ahead and put together a web interface to the JPL raw imagery. Substantial improvements over the JPL site include that it notes when...

The semi-finals begins today at Fontana Speedway. I like this picture from the OSU team: http://oregonstate.edu/grandchallenge/drupal/files/stairs.jpg And...

In article , says... Burt Rutan, the man responsible for more innovations in modern ...

Is is possible to make it into earth orbit using a sub-G thrusting rocket motor together with a hypersonic lifting body? Assuming it is possible Newtonically,...

For years man has tried to figure out how to colonize space , economically. Real or fake flying saucers have been around for years and a few world gvt's...

"rk" wrote in message ... Here is the link to the JWST deployment video, from...

There's an interesting account at http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=1034 of a talk that Mike Griffin (NASA administrator) gave about...

Hi All: Last year I photographed the Delta II rocket/Gravity Probe B launch from Vandenberg AFB. The negatives were recently scanned and I have posted some of...

40 teams listed at end of http://www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge/NQE_Press_Release.pdf "DARPA selected the semifinalists from a field of 118 entrants,...

rk wrote: On the other hand, since Henry is MIA somewhere, he would jump in and point out the story of the wrench left in...

Hello: I have just posted a site map of the astronomy/space-related files on my web site at http://www.spacearchive.info/site-map.htm. The map provides a...

the mars shuttle is coming soon

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060713.html The above is the "Astronomy Picture of the Day" It's an animated .gif of the shuttle just as the solid...

Hi all at Spacebanter. New to this forum but as like you all I have an obsession with space. Although this didn't extend into my profession but I hope to use...