Former astronaut and first American woman in space Dr. Sally Ride has endorsed Barack Obama. This is not as surprising as one might think. Sally Ride has been,...

On Jun 30, 10:43 am, (Eric Swanson) wrote: For an interesting description of the Bush Administration's covert campaign against...

http://spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=39650 This is yet another reason to concentrate on ROBOTIC exploration

Pat Flannery scribbled something like ... Some new LRO photos, showing landing sites, LM descent stages, and ALSEP equipment: ...

Apparently, the Servicing Mission was killed, and now all the White House wants to do is to mount an expensive robot mission that will simply de-orbit HST.

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-03/uoca-ais022806.php http://cosmic.lifeform.org

There has been lots of interest in Scramjets because of their potential to lower the cost of access to space, or Single Stage to Orbit as a means of lowering...

Two interesting quotes from Prez. Bush's speech: "We will begin the effort quickly, using existing programs and personnel.... We'll make steady progress, one...

This news...

On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 16:44:49 -0500, Patty Brooks wrote: snip Is Hoagland a fraud? Yes he is. He's being paid by Lockheed to be...

I'll believe this when I see it: http://www.spacedaily.com/news/lunar-05zl.html

They think the faulty explosive bolts that caused the service module separation problems on Soyuz TMA-10 and 11 are also on TMA-12:...

I don't see this discussed in-group recently; refer me if I missed it. In a crossposted thread, it was mentined From: Joe Strout Message-ID:...

Has NASA become a problem for the Obama transition? If one believes a recent story in the Orlando Sentinel, the transition team at NASA, led by former NASA...

How many things can you find wrong in this picture?: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3018/3145968661_9ff9fbbd8f_b.jpg Pat

http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/rutan_launchdate_040602.html -- Hop David http://clowder.net/hop/index.html

To me, the Russians privatized their space program after the cold war. We should do the same. CEV would be fun to watch, but it's a rerun. Currently, IMO,...

"the American people would rather reach for the stars than reach for excuses why we...

I was just reading a declassified document this week-end about Nuclear Pulsed Space Propulsion Systems...

Over the months of lurking I have noticed a lot of flack aimed at NASA coming from Americans here, and comments from them to the effect that IMO NASA should...