Well, here's the first part (of at least 3) on the SRI Space Cruiser. This covers the early design development. The article is a little rushed, for what I...

Ice Age, the Meltdown The first weekend, it's a smash with the kiddies. Get your official screen saver today. http://www.iceagemovie.com/index.html And...

I need ten people to vote that Rand Simberg must killfile me on sci.space.history, and on sci.space.policy, and never reply to one of my postings again on...

......once again. In twenty or thirty years, if all goes as planned. Can't wait. "I am extremely uneasy about this budget," said U.S. House...

When I was a kid in the 60s, reading books about space and rockets, I read that with the current (at that time) fuels and minimum weights for tanks and...

On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 03:21:18 -0600, in a place far, far away, OM made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way as to...

This just hit me as funny. I've lived in my apartment for twenty years now, and somehow the complete dadaist lunacy of this little architectural touch...

SSP Rises from the dead! Incredible! Just incredible! And the calvary rides in to save the day ....just in the nick of time. l just love this country.

Somebody started coming at me in this, and I'd just run: http://tinyurl.com/3dfo83 You look at that, and you might think it's some sort of killer robot or...

What a beautiful launch -- let's all get together in ten years when it gets to Pluto & Charon! Fred G.

Fifty years ago, my former wife and I were guests at a Soviet Embassy reception during which the Soviet Union launched Sputnik. I was a National Academy...

Has anybody seen new information on whether Lunakhod-2 turned over at the end of its rover mission? That was the rumor at the time, but has there been any...

In my case, the cinema aspect has two equally matched contenders; Gort's pencil-thin beam that could make your gun or tank (or you) fuse into a pile of...

Just posted some more pics on the SR 71 and D 21...fuselage detail, landing gear J85 insulation etc see http://greenmarble.blogspot.com If anybody knows what...

Pictures of OV-101 in its newly opened museum show that its OMS pods have been removed sometime in the last year. Anyone know why? Now you seem...

It's good to celebrate Gordon Cooper's life achievements -- but I suggest we resist canonization of some of his loonier pursuits, follow the links below to...

"Kelly McDonald" wrote in message ... I was thinking today about a...

Geoffrey A. Landis wrote: In fact, by your definitions the space launch record to date has been socialists 100, capitalists zero. Yes, and that's the...

http://www.usatoday.com/news/science/2003-11-27-space-station_x.htm Space station struck by floating debris, but no damage reported MOSCOW (AP) - The...

Susan Sarandon narrates film on Challenger disaster? You gotta depend on her finding a way to blame Bush -- or at least, blame Reagan. Considering the cultural...