From BBC news: "Last Updated: Monday, 9 August, 2004, 15:34 GMT 16:34 UK X-prize contender rocket explodes A rocket belonging to a team taking a low-budget...

View Master Tourist The bare bones cost of landing 200kg on the moon would probably be in the range of $50 million if there were off the shelf...

http://www.washingtondispatch.com/article_9817.shtml Alas the answer may be disheartening.

Comets and asteroids can provide the mass that is needed to generate thrust. In addition to the reaction mass you need source of energy -- most likely nuclear...

This is part of a survey on my contact page What Could You Do And Not Stop: Farming Mechanical Calculations Live In Solitude All of The Above

This is part of a survey on my contact page What Could You Do And Not Stop: Farming Mechanical Calculations Live In Solitude All of The Above

This is part of a survey on my contact page What Could You Do And Not Stop: Farming Mechanical Calculations Live In Solitude All of The Above

Spin enrichment Take a chunk of an S type asteroid and put a spherical reflector, with a circle of openings on the shadowed side. Focus a ring of reflected...

http://media.armadilloaerospace.com/2004_08_08/48InchCrash.mpg Another X-Prize contestant has some bad luck. Nice flight, though, John! Take on some more...

COULD THE ISS BECOME A RUSSO-EUROPEAN PROJECT? linked from http://www.spacetoday.net/ 2004-08-05 16:37 MOSCOW. August 3. (RIA Novosti political...

The idea of controlling and managing so carefully the first discovery of extraterrestrial life shows us the most harmful ignorance plaguing the human...

Reality need not apply, especially when a good fantasy is so much more fun. --Damon, who was there and saw the whole thing

On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 21:34:42 +0000, Rand Simberg wrote: wrote: Anyone know if this latest insanity is new, or recycled? I don't...

http://www.space.com/news/hubble_mission_040810.html The robotic mission to save Hubble would cost up to $2 billion, several times what a human-run Shuttle...

I had worked on other systems for course calculation, vehicle information, etc. But long term exposure to radiation is to be considered a problem. On solution...

Space Race II: Bangs, Bumps and Drops By Irene Mona Klotz United Press International A weekly series by UPI exploring the people, passions and business...

On the remote chance that anybody noticed, I decided to walk away from the flame wars. I'm travelling at the moment and might read some usenews,...

I was at the AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technologies Conference in Rhode Island earlier this week and saw Peter Diamondis speak at the awards banquet on...

Note that the mass for the reworked Soyuz heat shield is no more than 300 kg. Updated details about the Lunar Express SM system are available...

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/1/m/195/1M145495089EFF3500P2957M2M1.HTML Grinder marks? A fossilized thermophile? An optical illusion? Beats...