Recovery of rockets, and making rockets highly reusable, changes access to space, but it also changes access to Earth! To fly ballistically from New York to...

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"Two of the technology world's most powerful billionaires are concerned we are living in a Matrix-style simulated world and are working with scientists to...

SpaceX today released a preliminary determination that the 'anomaly' was caused by "a large breach in the cryogenic helium system of the second stage liquid...

Consider eight external tank sized airframes. Seven are clusted in a hexagonally close packed array, and the eighth is stacked upon the central tank. The...

since elon is building the infrastructure where else could we go?

Here's the CRS-5 launch - which shows the second stage LOX tank draining during the burn. It also shows the HeHPV tanks inside the LOX tank. ...

On Tuesday, September 27, 2016 at 3:41:42 PM UTC-4, JF Mezei wrote: Musk outlined some plans for mars colonisation. He says the plan is to bring transport...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/21/em_drive_theory_why/ The EmDrive's thrust can be predicted (and tested), says McCulloch, by accounting for...

American Journal of Nanomaterials Vol. 4, No. 2, 2016, pp 39-43. doi: 10.12691/ajn-4-2-2 | Research Article From Nanoscale to Macroscale: Applications of...

Three Words: Chinese. Space. Station.: "China has just launched its second small Tiangong space station into orbit, more or less catching up to what the...

"The largest of the two new rockets, called the "New Glenn 3-stage," is an enormous 23 feet in diameter (about half the length of a school bus), 313 feet...

On 9/1/2016 11:06 AM, JF Mezei wrote: As you have probably heard, a Falcon 9 had an "anomaly" with large sound and lots of smoke. SpaceX confirmed loss of...

In the wake of SpaceX's most recent anomaly: http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/09/we-love-spacex-and-we-hope-it-reaches-mars-but-we-spacex-to-focus/ rick...

"We actually first told you about this nearly half a year ago. But lately, a lot of other media outlets have discovered the story and begun writing about...

It would seem that "flight proven" is now "officially" to used rockets what "certified pre-owned" is to used...

$3 to $5 billion per year to keep two (2) American astronauts in space all year long is just too expensive. What the ISS has primarily returned is evidence...

On 9/1/2016 11:06 AM, JF Mezei wrote: does SpaceX have alternate pad they can launch from...

On 9/1/2016 11:53 PM, William Mook wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BgJEXQkjNQ At 1:11 the detonation of the Flight Termination System (FTS) is...

In sci.space.policy message , Thu, 1 Sep 2016 21:24:12, Rick Jones posted: Can one actually do non...