From this web page, the weight of the shuttle external tank with the liquid oxygen and hydrogen is 1.6 million pounds: EXTERNAL...

News conference on Monday will give more details. Alain Fournier

tomcat wrote: This handy craft project can be done on a shoestring and built in about 2 years. Put a carbon fiber/graphite epoxy laminate on thin...

I've been seeing some contradictory and/or misleading information in various reports about the X-43A flight and just what was achieved. Specifically, what...

Abrigon Gusiq wrote: What is the procedure and protocols for when the Shuttle is known to have taken some damage? I have no idea. As I said before, I'm...

Mining the Moons of Mars ......if platinum were required for high efficiency fuel cells for automobiles, only 20% of the world's ground vehicles could...

I say, bit of a sticky wicket with the old bang eggs. In the James Bond Movie "Thunderball" the nuclear weapons on the Vulcan bomber have "Nuclear Warhead -...

Imagine if this could be done in the next 30 years, we'd have not only established a foothold at a single location like the Moon or Mars... but the whole solar...

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I.) In 2006, Aviation Week claimed in an article that the Air Force had been testing a two-stage-to-orbit fully reusable launch system: Two-Stage-to-Orbit...

I wonder why the Apollo missions were conducted during the Lunar Day. It seems to me that Earthlight should be enough to see by, and when the Moon is New...

oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo The "experts" strike again... :) :) :) "Direct" version of my "open Service Module"...

I found a web page on Edwards Air Force Base website that describes early captive silo test launches of the Minuteman ICBM. In the article it is claimed that,...

Neil Armstrong’s shadow is found in thin section of Lunar Sample 10065? His body, lunar vines, animal neuron fossils are all found and identified in...

On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 20:45:27 +0200 (CEST), "Non scrivetemi" wrote: The Hayabusa astroid sample collecting mission...

In response to a question by a reporter for the Orlando Sentinel, President Barack Obama has made a statement about his plans for NASA that has sown confusion...

Astronaut charged with kidnap attempt By MIKE SCHNEIDER, Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. - A NASA astronaut charged with attempting to kidnap a romantic rival...

Instead of making saving Hubble dependent on the successful design of an elaborate telemanipulator device that will completely recondition the...

Suborbital Institute Congratulates Scaled Composites, Applauds FAA Action April 7, 2004 Norman, OK -- The Suborbital Institute today congratulated...

What would space policy be like under a John McCain Presidency? Some hint of what the course of the United States space program would be was given recently...