What you are about to read might sound unusual but it could be very enlightened God (Allah) said in the Holy Quran : .... I only created jinn and man to...

On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 08:36:05 -0500, "Jim Oberg" wrote: Come on, don't ever cite Wiki as a final source -- cite the alleged...

I have seen different reasons for the Space Shuttle flight path not passing over the U.S. on landing. 1) The orbit of the International Space Station requires...

OK, I havent thought about this for several years and forget the reason for why Xenon is used for ion rockets. Sure, it is inert but so is Ar. Ar ionizes...

pre ` Tuesday September 19, 2006 POLITICAL ESSAYS Whys And Wherefores - Part 2 ` ` BBC reports an "unidentified object" is floating next to the Atlantis...

What the heck is going on with the Associated Press? Found at Yahoo!News, an AP article by science writer and apparent dingbat Joseph B. Verrengia, with the...

Okay, I'm behind the times, but just today, I came across something cute at one of the fan sites for the x-plane simulator from laminar research. The...

President Bush decided to invade Iraq first, then ...later contrived a single, compelling justification for the decision. Hence the WMD scandal. The decision...

Recently, during an address on the space economy to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the start of the space age, NASA Administrator Michael Griffin...

Is curosity a brand new design? or a incremental improvement on spirit and opportunity? If curosity turns out a bust for any reason NASA will get...

Well that would be the first thing *I* would do now that O'Keefe is gone.

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Or might ISS get offered to international partners or deorbited in the pacific? Nasa might have a few bucks for robotic science if ISS, shuttle replacement...

Rand, It was good to hear your voice. I have to agree with your comments vis-a-vis Apollo 2.0. Aligns with a lot of what I've been reading here. Expensive...

Are nuclear rockets the future of space travel? Or will the anti-nuke crowd win out? "During an Oct. 9 Aviation Week webinar moderated by Space Editor Irene...

It seems like the Shuttle Return-To-Flight date keeps being pushed back. There also seem to be a lot of unanticipated safety issues that have come up. With...

SLS will be ready after 2018 around the same time JWST will be launched. SLS is such bad in perspective that it needs a mission to justify itself. Can it bring...

I'm wondering if the successfull commercial space flight of SS1 will bring orbiting space hotels any closer in the not-too-distant future. Will this flight...

With the growing number of suborbital space vehicle projects, and now with the supersonic flight of the SpaceShipOne, the question is constantly raised as to...

Planning on a one way trip to Mars will solve many of the problems. Instead of having to produce fuel and have a spaceship suitable for the return journey ,...