So I was reading one of my Christmas presents, Frank O'Brien's _The Apollo Guidance Computer: Architecture and Operation_, and it mentions that for...

Is there a blog somewhere he's regularly writing in? Dave

I do not remember any comment on that. I would expect it to a one- time vehicle. Mike

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

On Jan 26, 8:55 am, Pat Flannery wrote: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/out-of-the-spaceship-ndash-... ' "There was no...

On 1/13/2011 5:46 PM, wrote: A buddy of mine talks about his local Hooters restaurant all the time. Apparently, the biggest worries...

Steve Bowen was last in space on 26 May last year; he could be back on orbit with in 9 months of that date. I'm guessing that it's been quite some time since...

Rockets mounted in the RV would serve as both a full-envelope LES, and a vertical landing system on return, though a reserve emergency parachute system would...

The days of paying for costly software upgrades are numbered. The PC will soon be obsolete. And BusinessWeek reports 70% of Americans are already using...

Does anyone know whether there are drawings available anywhere? I can't find a patent for it (but there's a patent for the much bigger Aerojet suit). I was...

One of the crew has had a bicycle accident and apparently has broken his hip: http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts133/110115kopra/ Pat

Three different types of launchers all operating from French Guiana at once: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12197109 Pat

scaaahu wrote: On Jan 19, 12:44Â*pm, "Rod Speed" wrote: Its completely routine to encrypt your data so even if the PC gets ...

Pat Flannery wrote: So would this work any way, shape, or form? Maybe if they took the fins and warhead off of the V-2, considering...

I believe with chemical propulsion its commonly believed to be about a year each way. thats a long time:( What if aerobreaking were used? The manned portion...

Yesterday More than four thousands scientists, confirmed that relativity is not a scientific theory, and it is pastime laughingstock, while Einstein is...

I knew that there was one Almaz (modified Salyut) military space station finished and stored when the program was canceled, but apparently there were two...

I got to wondering how much the three capsule programs cost. I looked it up on wikipedia, just to get some index of their relative costs, as a starting point....

She is married to astronaut Mark Kelly who is scheduled to command Endeavour on the last shuttle mission this spring.

(That sounds like the first line of a limerick, doesn't it?) She discovered that I was born in the year of the Ox. That knowledge made her much more...