On Jun 30, 10:43 am, (Eric Swanson) wrote: For an interesting description of the Bush Administration's covert campaign against...

"SpaceX has been teasing potential Mars plans for a while now, but the company just announced a launch date--and it's soon. They plan to hit the surface of...

Looks a bit like a Apollo CSM; looks even more like a flying dildo: http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2010/08/30/rocketing-to-the-moon/ I imagine that unfortunate...

Roger Coppock wrote The trend on the 80 to 85 degree South latitude band hadcrut2v.dat file is positive. In fact, it is the fastest warming of any 5 degree...

the Congressional Black Caucus and many anti-science liberals got their wishes.... Moon-travel boosters. The budget adds $6 billion to NASA's budget over five...

Unfortunately, our Venus EXPRESS team of supposed all-knowing wizards have such straight and tight intellectual butt-cracks that they can't even manage to...

http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/2005/07/griffin_wants_i.html Wauughhhh ha ha ha...... Safe, simple, soon--but not cheap! Oh well. At least it's not...

Rather than developing a new Apollo-style capsule to be launched on an expendable rocket, I think the United States should develop a fully reusable human-rated...

Accident Claims SpaceX Dragon Abort Test Capsule Apr 21, 2019 Irene Klotz - Aerospace Daily & Defense...

Tired of all the flame wars? Insane posts? Off topic postings? Want to try a moderated forum? Then Get your ass to Mars! http://OnToMar.org/forum/ A new...

So far so good!

Congratulations to NASA and the people of the U.S.A for this first test of Orion. Let's hope it will take pople farther than Apollo. jacob

MSNBC - Deadly space lessons go unheeded http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6872105/ Apollo 1, Challenger, Columbia tragedies have much in common COMMENTARY By...

The SpaceX plans for the first Mars trips involve two Starships making the trip at the same time. The SpaceX videos show a Starship flying alone, in a fixed...

Hi All I found this on rasfc, thought it might be appropriate to pass it around to see if we can do something to cut all the crap in he The headers...

....being reported on CNN. Tom Daschle is "deeply saddened." -- Scott Lowther, Engineer Remove the obvious (capitalized) anti-spam gibberish from the...

How can it be that Orion/Constellation is cheaper (if *not* going back to the Moon) that just fixing the Shuttle ET, and if the added weight of a...

Ever since Luis Alvarez and his son Walter discovered that the KT boundary layer which exists world-wide, was enriched with iridium, which suggests that the KT...

Hi everyone, First and foremost, let me just say that I do believe that the United States was actually on the moon. However, I am in a debate with someone...

Although in the 1950s/60s it seems that space colonization was only a few decades away (see: sci-fi at the time), even if we had continued to fund space...