Nice to see something moving on the lunar surface again. Looking forward to the selfies.

Wikipedia notes the death of WR Pogue at the age of 84. He was the pilot of the final Skylab mission, 84 days in 1973-1974. Prior to that, his career in the...

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2013/01/ksc-crawlerway-facelift-preparation-sls/ Posted here because among other things is a nice blueprint showing LC-39C and...

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/28/us/john-c-houbolt-lunar-pioneer-dies-at-95.html John C. Houbolt, Lunar Pioneer, Dies at 95 Houbolt was the champion of...

On Monday, April 21, 2014 6:28:59 PM UTC-7, bob haller wrote: With the variety of new imaging of the moon has anyone located the remains of the upper...

First part was about the successful Falcon first stage reusability test that was part of the recent CRS flight. It was successful. SpaceX declares...

http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/04/gallery-nasas-shuttle-carrying-747-makes-final-journey-to-museum/ -- A host is a host from coast to...

http://www.kvoa.com/news/legendary-test-pilot-bill-dana-dies-in-arizona/ LOS ANGELES (AP) - Famed research test pilot Bill Dana, who flew the X-15 rocket...

Well, here's a bit of a surprise, since, who expected any of the Camp Swampy group to be involved in anything successful or important? From November 1957...

....I had the fortunate opportunity to meed and chat with Fred back in '02, when he was a guest at a model rocketry convention held here in CenTex. Fred was...

http://www.space.com/26500-apollo-moon-landing-quiz.html I got one wrong... (and shouldn't have, but oh well.)

Just FYI for those how follow SpaceX. http://www.spacex.com/news/2014/07/14/falcon-9-launches-orbcomm-og2-satellites-orbit ...

How exposed to a newly detected asteroid or planetoid threat? Seems we're still a sitting duck, especially when looking at our physically dark and...

Our moon is on average quite physically dark, but it isn't nearly as monochromatic and inert as our Apollo era discovered of so many areas of nearly off-white...

http://sploid.gizmodo.com/these-are-spectacular-i-especially-love-the-launch-tow-1605785415 Some great photos.

In the early 60's the USAF Scientific Advisory Board looked at a wide range of small MOL-like space platforms to be serviced by Gemini or Dyna Soar vehicles....

The following video of the F9 first stage return was just posted to YouTube today by SpaceX. The video is abbreviated 1/2 way through I suppose to skip the...

Another topic that has received a lot of attention on this forum going back more than a decade is the point regarding how "zero gravity" is an improper term...

One more excellent video from a year ago that goes a long way toward presenting an accurate understanding of what the space race was all about: "Who won the...

The new Cosmos TV series hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson has had some great moments. Here's one I especially treasure as a jewel... Back in 1914, H.G. Wells...