What are some of the best space events expected in 2004? I'd include shuttle return to flight (maybe), Cassini arrival, Messewnger launch, maybe X-Prize win,...

Most of the news and opinion about bush's plan return to the moon have been negative. Some good reviews have been posted. Here are several: Wall Street...

NASA needs to impress the hell out of congress by moving quickly on the CEV - have it ready for human flights by 2010, whilst doing it under budget. The rest...

Here is a blast from the past which might blow down some of the barriers standing in the way of progress. In 1959 Uncle Sam carved an artic base out of an ice...

So NASA cancels a shuttle maintance mission and says it's cheaper to (1) re-write the shuttle software program to work with three gyros operational instead of...

From Boeing News Now for Jan. 16: In a move designed to align the agency with the new exploration agenda outlined yesterday by President George W. Bush, NASA...

Found at: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-01-19-hubble-ditched_x.htm Hubble Space Telescope first casualty of Bush space initiative By Paul Recer,...

NASA should fund two more identical rover missions using the Spirit rover design but drop them into more challenging places. They could be ready for launch in...

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Come to think of it, this new plan of Bush's reminds me quite a bit of his fathers SEI - the Space Exploration Initiative from 1989. The most prominent...

It was the cover article in the November 2003 Atlantic Monthly, and it's very well written, very long and detailed by lay standards. I highly recommend it to...

During Bush's speech yesterday at NASA HQ (I didn't see it), did he even acknowledge JPL and the recent Mars landing of Spirit? Did he offer even the most...

Dubya excitedly runs into Dick Cheney's office to tell the vice preznit about the great idea he just had. "We gotta do somethin' that no other administration,...

http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,61987,00.html I see a problem in over extension: excerpt: NASA has a long history of undertaking mind-bending...

That's Fox News' title for my column. I just called it "Daring." The third in a trilogy, and I think that I'm overwraught, or at...

Ok, so the following seem to be teams moving towards usable hardware and a launch: * Armadillo * Scaled Composites * Canadian Arrow * Starchaser * ARCA * HARC

Hi. I was wondering if Mitchell Burnside Clapp's paper on dense-hydrocarbon-fueled launch vehicles is available online anywhere? -- Phil...

Neil wrote: YEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAGGGHHHH!!!!!!!!! Well, really, that was the scream of me when I saw more heavily cross posted crap. Did you follow...

Please rank these chronologically (earliest to latest): A) Space Shuttle Return to Flight B) ATV launch C) Spaceship One Space Flight Attempt D) Falcon...

OK, cheesy subject line. But what I'm curious about--the date is fast approaching when it is likely that we will have TWO functioning rovers on Mars, but...