Next Generation Exploration Conference: http://ngec.arc.nasa.gov/images/banner/NGEC_header.jpg It's down at Ames. It looks to the bold manned exploration of...

The 1,000th shuttle engine test at Stennis Space Center: Thursday, August 17th 2006, marked the 1000th test for the shuttles main engines at stennis space...

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I'm going through old stuff. Would anyone like these 9 issues of Ad Astra? Will be thrown out on Tuesday (8/22/06) otherwise. May/June 97 Sept/Oct...

NASA has started placing a few CEV/CLV related documents on their NTRS server. Here are two I have found so far: Overview of the Crew Launch Vehicle Upper...

N. Korea Appears to Be Preparing for Nuclear Test ABC News - Aug. 17, 2006 http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=2326083&page=1 Rusty

If for some reason, the LM was unable to redock with the CM, were they prepared to do an EVA to get back to the CM? --- Replace you know what by j to email

Six people cooped up in a simulated Mars ship for 520 days? No, it's not a new reality television show:...

Farmington-made rocket set to launch remains By Abram Katz, Journal Register News...

Our problem is basically that we haven't been thinking "outside the box" as they say. Tonight, on "Sixty Minutes", Dan Rather interviewed the President of...

In a Apollo/Saturn V launch, the flight controllers say "mode 1 bravo" and later "mode 1 charlie". What are these - different abort modes? --- Replace you...

Probably old news, but I thought I'd share it anyway http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article1218885.ece

I have the Spacecraft films DVDs: Gemini, Saturn I/Ib, Apollo 8, and Apollo 11. I'm planning to get Mercury, Liftoff, and Saturn V. I also want to get one of...

On Wed, 09 Aug 2006 00:22:45 -0500, Pat Flannery wrote: And hopefully my political party is also. :-) : But as Will Rogers pointed out,...

My wife an I had the great privilege to attend the Space Pioneer Autograph Convention in San Antonio, Texas this past weekend. About half our moonwalkers...

Physicist James Van Allen Dies at 91 By TODD DVORAK http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2292011 IOWA CITY, Iowa Aug 9, 2006 (AP)- Physicist James A. Van...

So would you like to have only four toes on your feet, like is the case of my left one? Well, don't worry...with a nuclear war we can evolve humanity at a...

Our resident kooks actually inspired me to take a look at a photo, and, though I have no doubts that I'm seeing things in it which are actually on the moon,...

NASAWatch got hold of the plan for how they do a destructive deorbit of a damaged Shuttle: http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/153444main_CSCS_Resource_%20Book.pdf Pat

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