What do you guys think? Wouldn't it be better to focus our efforts on unmanned expeditions, which could bring us more results with less...

Our next space station needs to get its tethers anchored into the ultimate CM(counter mass) of 7.35e22 kg that's parallel parked at Earth's L1. As a perfectly...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080711/ap_on_sc/space_station *beginning of a telling, and chilling, excerpt from the article, for fair use and public...

Stellation! Americans : Butt ****ing dumb and too dumb to know it.

Poor Colleen Shipman. She is very afraid. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. I just can't stop laughing. The big ol' Unity States of aMerka sure has itself a bunch of...

Do we have enough rockets and launch pads yet? Now NASA wants to build two more...

Great read! http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/content/?cid=5412 Yikes! I want the ISS partnership to work, but jeez folks...why not let the rocket scientists...

Dr. Francis S. Collins - American Retard. Barack Obama - Retard in Chief. The United States of Retards. I've we can go to the moon, they why can we go back...

Gabrielle Giffords - Ignorant Bitch Ares I, Bitch, Ares I. It's a criminally mismanaged, technologically insane rocket, bitch. Deal with it.

Targeting the station's altitude increase would give a Flight Day 1 Rendezvous opportunity for an on-time on-day launch. Maybe they shouldn't waste the Space...

After entry interface? or, After engine failure on ascent? -- Craig Fink Courtesy E-Mail Welcome @

Kent Betts wrote: I think that the technology to operate life support systems for two 6-month transits is already available. The question is MTBF. This...

Perhaps Pat can explain why he posted this everywhere *but* ss.station? Pat Flannery wrote: I couldn't make this one up. Alex Pachenko (of Soviet/Russian...

When they load a Progress with rubbish, do the crewmembers have to calculate total waste mass to allow ground people to calculate re-entry parameters ? Or do...

We're told, that this spacewalk, is to replace a "failed power component". So, given the risks of spacewalks, why are any sub-system modules placed outside? ...

I see that the Mars rover missions got their 2nd 6-month extension today. That's great news, because it is far less expensive and much safer to use the rovers...

According to http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0410/12cupola/ the Cupola has now arrived at KSC. They say it is due to be launched on "Station assembly mission...

Allard Beutel Headquarters, Washington Nov. 23, 2004 (Phone: 202/358-4769) Doug Peterson Johnson Space Center, Houston (Phone:...

Low-Q, High-Q, and 'Normal-Q' Ascent Profiles -- Clarification Needed In recent discussions about lowering the Q on the 121 ascent profile, to the 'Lo-Q'...

JimO: Seems like NASA has decided that since they can't figure out what caused that alarming noise, they are justified in assuming it can't...