March 3, 2004 Check out this RAT. http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/2/m/059/2M131597980EFF1155P2939M2M1.JPG Then feel free to post your retractions...

March 13, 2004 I am crossposting this because it is so darn cool. jacob navia wrote: At the Mars Path Finder site, you can see a rock covered with small...

March 4, 2004 It's difficult to deny it any more, inside the crater where wind erosion is minimized, the spherule patterns from within the outcrop are...

Report: China to Recruit Women for Space By Associated Press posted: 01:00 pm ET 09 March 2004 BEIJING (AP) -- China will recruit women astronauts for...

March 10, 2004 http://www.sepm.org/sedrecord/sedrecord1.3.pdf There you have it. Required reading. Thomas Lee Elifritz http://elifritz.members.atlantic.net

I'm putting a number of my space books up for sale on Ebay. These are the first things I've sold on Ebay, so the listings might be a little rough. So far, I've...

About four kilometers to the SE, in the Columbia Hills, is what looks like it could be a gigantic cave. Check out this huge...

This is a viewpoint I see all the time: http://www.helenair.com/articles/2004/03/04/montana/a01030404_05.txt To consider how silly this is, perform a thought...

Space expert's star fades From correspondents in Moscow March 13, 2004 THE long-time head of Russia's space agency said today he had been replaced. Yuri...

I have been trying to conceptualize what the optimal layout would be for a reusable SSTO that was not significantly aerodynamically constrained accepting for...

Today would have been Yuriy Gagarin's 70th birthday. He didn't build his rocket, or fund it, or fuel it -- but he got into it, knowing enough about what there...

Thanks, that helps! Mike Maxwell

March 9, 2004 http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/1/m/040/1M131734806EFF0544P2972M2M1.JPG Almost all the in-situ spherules have these petal like...

I wrote an article on TSTO: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_stage_to_orbit Go nuts! Mike Ackerman

Possible outcrop on the far side of this image: http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/spirit/navcam/2004-03-10/2N132225946EFF1700P1943L0M1.JPG The heatshield on...

Looks like NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe is playing a little hardball with members of Congress who are belly aching about the President's...

In recent months, the Poruguese press and TV have mentioned some plans that ESA has to use the Ilha de Santa Maria (37º 43' N, 28º 08' W), the more eastward...

http://mikulski.senate.gov/Newsroom/GehmanReview.pdf

What will President Kerry do with NASA? My guess is that he will want to dump the Bush Moon/Mars plans ASAP, but will he be able to stop CEV and the end of...

You know the scene in Contact where they've discovered the Signal, proving that there's intelligent life out there, and next thing Jodie Foster knows there's...