Tonne per tonne of whatever dry-ice(CO2) that can be effectively shot at the moon, and being that it's not the least bit intended as for orbiting but...

Lunar tourism doesn't have to be profitable. It just needs to be less expensive. Compare two plans: A. Send 20 astronauts to the moon. B. Send 10 astronauts...

Why am I hearing more and more about dangerous asteroids ? I wonder about SDI and how stubbornly it was pushed upon us by Reagan and also by the fact that...

"Brad Guth" wrote in message The topic here is that our "Space Policy...

I can't tell~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR7aZXIDVkE And how can the 'conspiracy' to hide ET survive this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2h2AulFILTg

Rober Murdoch, owner of News Corporation, along with a myriad of film, tv, print and online corporations including Fox News, has announced plans to become...

Concerning the google prize for landing on the moon trekking 1200' and taking pics. Lets play fast and loose with "Land". How about a rolling impact? How...

More information on this hypthetical moonship. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_core_reactor_rocket A gas core nuclear rocket sustainer with chemical rocket...

To witness the world returned to Nature, once and for all. I'm laughing too as I type this, as just a few years ago I'd also brand any such statement...

Leaving aside the debates about Mars' desirability etc ........ Zubrin and McKay have proposed statite reflectors for heating...

I thought thought there'd be a lot of discussion about this. Seems like the right idea for once from NASA. Of course, execution is key. I thought the VSE...

Does anyone have news on the final config of the CEV? Also does anyone know if they will really fly this, (Or will it be another paper rocket, (i.e. Crew...

John Griffin and Rand Simberg, Two seriously out of context sort of guys. What have we rusemasters of this naysay Usenet from hell that sucks and blows,...

Brad Guth wrote: tomcat wrote: I do get "unsubstantiated feeling(s)" from time to time. Those 'feelings' served me well on military missions when I...

Posted on Tue, Jul. 25, MEXICO Massive oil field in decline Production at Cantarell, the world's second-largest oil field, has begun to dwindle, threatening...

....And now we have Dick Tracy's Space...

http://hiroc.lpl.arizona.edu/images/TRA/TRA_000823_1720/TRA_000823_1720 _RED.browse.jpg 221,22 - 223,106: This appears to be a sort of highway that vehicles...

Hey all, Just wanted to pop in for a second to get people's opinions on a technical question. I've been doing some high-level number crunching for lunar...

Reading a fascinating book about the history of mapping the Martian surface, one of the things I encountered was a map illustrating how the Grand Canyon on...

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