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Futron Releases Space Tourism Study by
Rand Simberg
I was told (by someone who should know) at the Return To The Moon
Conference in Las Vegas in July, that Futron would soon be releasing
their proprietary space...
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Russo-Aussie venture to challenge Virgin? by
snidely
It appears there's a challenge to Virgin Galactic, being done by a
Russian-Australian joint venture. Cute little spaceplane involved.
From AFP's article on...
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Elevating Elephants by
Rand Simberg
James D. Miller thinks that a space elevator proposal would be a good
2006 campaign issue for the...
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LSAM by
Jon S. Berndt
Don't know if this has been discussed before, but I noticed some time ago
that the LSAM will be discarded after it performs its duties. What are some
thoughts...
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Best Audio/Video Clip by
Pat Flannery
rk wrote:
What do you think would be the best audio/video clip from the USA
space program?
I have a few ideas of my own but am interested in what other...
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SS1 success reported widely by
dave schneider
In addition to the usual outlets (Yahoo, etc), the appearent success
of this morning's flight even made it to the Peter Tilden Morning Show
on KZLA. The "Five...
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missing tiles by
David J Bush
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060713.html
The above is the "Astronomy Picture of the Day"
It's an animated .gif of the shuttle just as the solid...
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Idea : possibly a little naive ... ? by
Davey K
After playing with some sycamore seeds (helicopter seeds) with my
children, I thought of an idea for a satelite design. Shaped like a
large sycamore seed...
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EELV: Competition? No thanks by
Jim Kingdon
Looks like the Air Force has decided that it doesn't believe in
competition after all (I'm assuming that the Air Force was consulted
as is planning to say yes,...
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Let's go to Mars - but why come back? by
Mantra
Since so much time and money is spent into getting people BACK to earth,
aren't there people who would volunteer to never come back? There are so
many of us on...
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September 20th 04 03:03 PM
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Hubble Ultra Deep Field image by
frostybeer
What an amazing image. Would anyone care to start a discussion on this
image? I could analyze it for hours.
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NASA Culture versus Corporate Culture by
Bill Clark
Despite all its human flaws, the "NASA culture" has a strong can-do,
will-do attitude that makes it possible for them to achieve what
organizations ten times...
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questions about the universe... by
Roger
I was hoping someone could help me with the following question. I am trying
to understand something of the size of the universe, and I came accross a
quote...
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American Mars rover. by
MarkMcDonald
U.S. mars rover "Spirit" is apparently dead according to Reuters about half
an hour ago. It's either fallen over or suffered an electrical failure.
Anyone...
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Can Nozomi enter Mars orbit? by
Jim Kingdon
People have hailed the upcoming arrival at Mars of NASA's two Mars
landers, Mars Express (with Beagle 2), and Japan's Nozomi. The Nozomi
team has managed to...
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Permission To Fly by
Rand Simberg
....is the title of my latest Fox News column, in which I analyze and
endorse the legislation introduced last week to clarify launch
regulation for suborbital...
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ECO sensor by
Jim Kingdon
So over the last year or two there have been a lot of dicsussion of
ECO (engine cutoff) sensors, which figure out whether the shuttle's
external tank has run...
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