Amazingly enough, it's that time of year again on Mars. I've seen a number of hints as to how to get Spirit into position to survive the upcoming winter by...

I'm designing an O'Neill habitat for use in a game scenario, where I'm trying to keep the science as plausible as possible. It's going to be the classic...

Hi. I've already used google to find an answer,but the links weren't very helpful,that's why I'm asking he Are there any good books or papers about the...

Retro Aerospace is proud to announce that we have completed an initial test series on a Marshall Spaceflight Center developed energetic monopropellant...

Space Station News /////////////////////////////////////////// NASA Television to Air Departure of Northrop Grummans Cygnus from Space Station Posted: 29...

With all eyes turning towards Mojave, Burt Rutan, and his (hopefully) X-prize winning designs, one begins to wonder what the next generation of these craft...

The armchair buckytubes have very low electric resistance and very high maximum current density -- about one billion amperes per square centimeter. If...

I was reading about these electric "lifters" which generate lift using "ion wind", and came across this old article about the Ionocraft, which was to use this...

To get a sense of how this collaborative design will work, pick a subject that you know quite a bit about. Look it up in Wikipedia. Hopefully you can find...

Heads up - STS-121 problems --------------------------- It is Monday, 12:24pm EDT (1624z). The S-121 Management Team is about to begin a briefing that will...

Here's an article I read: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99995049 So these ultra-small glacier core bacteria are able to survive very cold...

It seems intuitive that, if the technology for SSTO is not quite here yet, it should be possible to do the job by building an RLV which is almost capable...

Space Station News /////////////////////////////////////////// Students to Ask Questions to NASA Astronaut Aboard Space Station Posted: 01 Dec 2020 12:45 PM...

Space Station News /////////////////////////////////////////// Young Students Send Questions to Astronauts Aboard Space Station Posted: 28 Dec 2020 08:13 AM...

How difficult is it to tailor a parking orbit for lunar missions that can be reached efficiently by US launchers and precesses 180 degrees in one lunar...

The shuttle-derived heavy-lift vehicles under discussion would for the most part be powered by the SSME. Why use the expensive SSME on an expendable vehicle...

So, much of the press coverage of the New Horizons probe is breathless about how the probe will "pass the Moon in 9 hours." Does the probe actually go...

Are there people stayin in International Space Station. If yes where can we get the profile for these people. and what exactly are they up to Abhishek

Whereas, Ames no longer supports NNTP, I'll post this note he In short: Mission Control Technologies Job Openings (4) The Mission Control technologies...

You can run but you can't hide. They are everywhere. Giant slug marks. What could cause them? Dark contrail like features everywhere. Scientist...