I've always wondered about which LMs would have flown on what flights if the original C-D-E-F-G mission profile had been flown. Mike Collins, in Carrying the...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6279423.stm .. It is using gravity of jupiter to increase speed of new horizons. That means gravitational energy of...

They opened the Skywalk over the Grand Canyon today, and even the TV coverage of going out on it looked pretty scary. I think the Hualapai tribe probably has...

Hi, I m looking for information on this "spacecartf" display at huntsville space...

One of the cool things I got for Christmas was a DVD with a compilation of film from the Gemini program. While watching, I heard the oddest sounding screech...

1,158 days, 11 hours, 54 minutes, 21 seconds to go, looks like, until Mercury orbit insertion. I'm glad to have any new pieces of Mercury to look at. ...

When you have a technical problem with Microsoft software, do you get transferred to a foreign call centre? I won't whinge about it here.

The most important Apollo mission of them all launched 40 years ago today.

I'm wondering when the first spacecraft sent comm directly to another spacecraft, not relayed by the ground. Did the first rendezvous missions, first by Soyuz...

Hi! There is a golden "sheet of paper" around some parts in the lower portion of the Apollo Lunar Module. You can see it clearly in...

Russia, China May Sign Pact on Joint Moon Exploration - Official http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/09/11/russiachina.shtml Created: 11.09.2006 15:19 MSK (GMT...

What if any consideration has been give by our friends in Europe to designing and procuring a manned version of their Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV)....

Next unmanned lunar landing -- when? I'm doing a short essay for the 40th anniversary of the Luna-9 moon landing, and will speculate on when unmanned lunar...

Hi everyone, I'm looking for informations about the dummest mistakes in space programs. (Such as mix up miles and km for the Mars Climate Orbiter) If you...

Despite claims to the contrary, I believe the homos are equal to their staight counterparts. In fact, there are a number of professions that gays are naturally...

It just occurred to me that I never heard so much as a peep out of the anti-nuclear loonies about the RTG's carried aboard New Horizons. Nothing on TV,...

I have a hypothetical question - what if America's immediate goal in the 1960s was to circumnavigate the moon or go into orbit around it rather than to land...

Interesting concept- launch penatrator probes from lunar orbit: http://www.aviationnow.com/avnow/news/channel_awst_story.jsp?id=news/aw060506p2.xml Pat

And hopefully my political party is also. :-) : http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14228351/ Pat

I've mentioned elsewhere I believe that I teach cave rescue techniques. Once a year the organization I'm with does a week long training seminar. What's that...