a customer of mine recently purchased 5 pc for his office from Dell, here are the specs: 128m RAM 2.2mh Celeron CPU CDROM burner Plus the usual DELL case and...

Apart from incidentals, like tape recorder problems and DSN time being less of a pain, what extra would have been gotten? Would RCS consumption with the more...

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Instead of hauling their own fuel for propellent, which adds to its weight, why not have manned craft launched from massive high-altitude cannons? Why not...

Dr. O wrote: My guess is that it will be completed in the 2020-2025 timeframe. My guess is that it won't be done within the next 100 years. Today, we're...

As the reply posts to an earlier post stated there has been no metal bent for a Mars mission, or even the crew short listed. Has there been any preliminary...

....is the title of this week's Fox News column, in which I reflect on NASA's forty-fifth...

In article , "Eugene" wrote: The world of science is both arduous,...

On October 27, the Suborbital Institute will hold its third Suborbital Action Day on Capitol Hill. Executives of suborbital spaceflight companies and...

WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?* By L. Neil Smith For Immediate and General Release The October, 2003 issue of _Discover_ contains...

The AP reports http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20031013_214.html that three candidates for Taikonaut #1 arrived at the launch site, strongly suggesting on...

Does anyone know the name of the software package(s) that is used by NASA to simulate the differnt areas of heat that the shuttle experiences during...

Big Bertha Thing pin-wheel Cosmic Ray Series Possible Real World System Constructs http://web.onetel.com/~tonylance/pinwheel.html Access page JPG 17K...

Shenzhou Seen in Europe; Pre-dawn North American Passes Mapped Here is a link to the ground track maps for Shenzhou visibility tomorrow morning (Wednesday)...

My Scientific American (October) feature article on the upcoming Chinese human space flight is now on...

....CNN now has more details, and a couple of ascent photos: http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/10/14/china.launch/index.html http://www.io.com/~o_m his...

JPL just released an interesting report : Study to Determine the Feasibility of Extending the Search for Near-Earth Objects to Smaller Limiting...

"OM" wrote in message ... ...Details are a...

Does anyone know much about this X-Prize team? Their english site ( http://www.arcaspace.ro/home.htm ) shows signs of good progress and perhaps just as...

"Dr. O" wrote in message ... "Rand Simberg" wrote in...