Jan Philips on sci.space.history asked "How low can you orbit?". I have a space simulator that could be used to play around with this kind of problem. I had...

I recently read (in Gruntman, "Blazing the Trail") an interesting piece on the spin axis direction change of Explorer I. Did Explorer I designers publish...

There are interesting maps and Corona photos of the arrangements of the first (1961) Soviet ballistic missile intercept at Saryshagan in Gruntman's "Blazing...

Dear sci.space.history This post is to set the record straight, and to correct the great deal of incorrect and extremely old & outdated information which...

*************************************************************** Justin Wigg - Jun 3 2001, 6:59 pm "J. Steven York" wrote in...

I think humans are not allowed to travel to the realms of GOD!!! If we do so, GOD will surely punish us!!! We'll burn in hell, if we don't stop our space...

Just one strange idea: mankind don't have now space capabilities comparable what we had 30 years ago. It seems it is first time mankind is "dropping back" in...

We all got to see history made today. If you hang out here, this is unlikely to be news to you, but SpaceX has finally successfully recovered a booster by...

the one that interested me was the very early mock-up (this may have been before Grumman was picked to build it) that had the cylindrical ascent stage...

Just picked up sheet of stamps - half Project Mercury: Alan Shepard: First American in Space and half Messenger Mission:First spacecraft to orbit Mercury....

see http://www.dragonmodelsusa.com/dmlusa/prodd.asp?pid=DRA11001 Hopefully the start of a new line. ...

keep the (wet) dream alive?

Now they found cracks in the metal under the foam on the external tank - cracks like this have never been repaired at the...

We apologize if this is a duplicate email. International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Multimedia Applications, (ICCIMA) August 16-18,...

This has probably been postulated a thousand times before, but.. Did they really need three crew members to make it to the moon? I know it made total sense to...

Hello out there. I am going to be purchasing some prints of famous space scenes and have them mounted with a frame, etc. I would like some advice on the...

Our Heavenly Mother says, "Granted, over the years mankind has succeeded in greater aspects of inventions, but they have not reached the point yet of the...

At least not for a while.... Well, I guess the Beagle is on the Martian surface, one way or another. Let's hope it's in one piece. uray

Opportunity is down, just waiting for the lightspeed delay now.... uray

"Bill Higgins" wrote in message ... The Spacecraft Elapsed Time countdown...