Seen from 1923: http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/10/18/how-our-earth-was-formed/ Based on the artwork, the Yerkes refractor telescope could shoot out some...

On 20.5.2011 13:33, bob haller wrote: perhaps this will see a test of ISS as a lifeboat? A test of the numerous available repair methods would have bee done...

Pat Flannery wrote: The idea of putting women on the subs is insane from a realistic point of view, and there is going to be all sorts of hanky-panky...

I knew you could vector the exhaust up; I knew you could vector the exhaust down; I didn't know you could vector the exhaust both up _and_ down...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081114/ap_on_sc/space_shuttle A lot of people ask how I could say that, me being a taxpayer and that meaning money out of my...

"Phineas T Puddleduck" wrote in message End of the world warning #23,632,452,654,235,237,687 You're so Gay!

On May 10, 1879, making a deafening roar and giving off tremendous light, a meteor weighing 431 pounds arrived in Estherville, Iowa. It hit the ground so fast...

Hi, Is there always on orbit arounfdearth geostationnary or polar satellites transmitting weather images in analog mode or all are now transmitting in...

In article , rk wrote: From today's AP article: The framed plaque from that era still hangs in the Mission ...

Ok, I read Mullanes book about the early shuttle years and there was plenty of information on these necessary functions on orbit, Some astronauts delighting...

Pravda has sophisticated Russian advice on how to have sex properly: http://funreports.com/fun/21-03-2006/1350-sex-0 "Gentlemen, we can not allow a Relief...

I had to go to http://www.space.com and was able to get a link to watch the space walk. "Morgoth Bauglir" wrote in...

If anyone else has seen and posted this, sorry! I thought this was pretty cool in that "I have no life but damn do I enjoy my hobbies" kind of way. I mean,...

It appears to be set for CDT in the U.S.; and uses a unique approach: http://www.lares.dti.ne.jp/%7Eyugo/storage/monocrafts_ver3/03/index.html :-) Pat

I have been wondering whether the Russian commanders have discontinued the practice of chosing a unique callsign to be used during their mission. I haven't...

On 14 Jan 2006 16:48:25 -0800, " wrote: What is this ?? Somebody feeding a nutter troll, I think. Dale

Somewhere out there, OM is screaming: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11567710/site/newsweek/?GT1=7850 Pat

....Apparently some lurker around here made a comment to one of the editors at BoingBoing, and they ran a blurb on the Darkstar mess. So rest assured we'll...

I was digging around on the National Reconnaissance Office's collection of declassified documents: http://www.nro.gov/foia/declass/collections.html .... and...

OM scribed: Graeme Carrott wrote: om contributes: ...On another side note, those expecting images during the ring plane pass will be...