Good luck tomorrow. No matter what happens, I hope you return home safely. Gordon

General Atomic, Convair, and General Dynamics all worked at a small Navy schoolhouse in Point Loma, part of San Diego. There, the TRIGA family...

There's a programme showing on the Discovery channel (UK version) at the moment about the psychological effects of space flight. They've just described how...

http://www.btopenworld.com/news/topstories/0,,csn=646|csr=4067481,00.html -- Gordon Davie Edinburgh, Scotland "Slipped the surly bonds of Earth...to touch...

Only three years after #2, the final issue of Image's 'Ministry of Space' comic book has finally appeared! The dark secret of where Sir John got the money to...

I'm currently rereading 'Flight', the autobiography of Chris Kraft. In his description of the Apollo 11 landing, he quotes Charlie Duke's famous response to...

Today, 19 September 2011, it is 15,401 days since the 'Eagle' landed on the Moon. The significance of that number is that the touchdown at Tranquility Base...

There's a classic piece of footage showing an S-IVB stage separating from the rest of the stack and lighting up its engine. This appears to be from a Saturn...

Forty-five years on... Still remembered, still honoured. You led the way... -- Gordon Davie Edinburgh, Scotland "Slipped the surly bonds of Earth...to...

Presumably like a lot of people here, I'll be raising a glass today to toast John Glenn on the fiftieth anniversary of his first mission. And it's great that...

Just watched the above documentary, which I assumed was from 2 - 3 years ago but the copyright date at the end was 2005. It was a somewhat sensationalised...

Today is the fiftieth anniversary of JFK's speech to Congress in which he committed the USA to landing a man on the Moon by the end of the decade. -- Gordon...

Dick Scobee Mike Smith Ellison Onizuka Judy Resnik Ron McNair Christa McAuliffe Greg Jarvis RIP

According to Wikipedia, as of today the ISS has been continuously occupied for 9 years 357 days* - taking the record from Mir. * Well, technically less the...

Forty-nine years on... -- Gordon Davie Edinburgh, Scotland "Slipped the surly bonds of Earth...to touch the face of God."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8373161.stm -- Gordon Davie Edinburgh, Scotland "Slipped the surly bonds of Earth...to touch the face of God."

"Pat Flannery" wrote in message ... GordonD wrote: This is a...

Wikipedia is reporting that Ron Parise, Payload Specialist on STS-35 and STS-67 (the ASTRO missions) died of a brain tumour on Friday 9th May, aged 56. --...

Apologies if this is old news, but the Tom Hanks mini-series is at last being released on Region 2 DVD - on the twentieth of this month. £44.99, available for...

Today is the twelfth anniversary of the arrival on the ISS of Expedition 1 (Shepherd, Gidzenko and Krikalev) aboard Soyuz TM-31. -- Gordon Davie Edinburgh,...