Today: NASA is spending billions re-building yesterday's systems to fulfill a mission apparently designed to keep NASA people employed. I.e., rather than...

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Man last stepped on the moon in 1972 with Apollo 17, and it has been the dream of that group of astronauts to go back to the moon. Now there is a effort to get...

On 28 Aug, 21:47, Jochem Huhmann wrote: Ian Parker writes: With Russia showing she is NOT a reliable partner I can...

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Big plans from the Persians: http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSBLA13323720080821 (cut to scene of Ahmadinejad whipping the launchpad that the...

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The Shameless Face of Beijing Olympics -- Beijing's Bad Faith Olympics / NYTimes The New York Times August 23, 2008 Editorial Beijing's Bad Faith Olympics

I can still remember Mark Spitz standing with his six gold and one silver Olympic medals around his neck on the cover of "Life" magazine, way back when I was...

Reminiscent of what happened with the goldfish in "Kill Bill, Vol. 2". "So how exactly did that little betta fish end up in your hand when you were...

The Ares I launch vehicle, and its Orion mega capsule, have no scientific, technological, physical or financial foundation at all. NASA's Ares I and Orion...

EarthLoosingOxygen · Earth loosing its free oxygen! / by Hank Kroll http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/EarthLoosingOxygen/ This topic of "Earth Losing...

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http://townhall.com/Columnists/PatrickJBuchanan/2008/08/22/and_none_dare_call_it_treason?page=1 In poetic terms, this is the "Great Sea Change".. Pat

Big plans from the Persians: http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSBLA13323720080821 (cut to scene of Ahmadinejad whipping the launchpad that the...

After too many what-if discussions about the capabilities of launch vehicles, both real and never-built, I've thrown together some code for simulating the...

Some years ago in an encyclopedia dealing with spacecraft, on one of its pages it showed diagrammatically the launch abort sequence for the Soyuz spacecraft...

MIT Professor David A. Mindell joins us to talk about the Apollo Guidance Computer and his cool book DIGITAL APOLLO. Get it at Amazon here -...

JUST TALKED TO ROBIN P KHORSHID SHE SAID THAT MARTY WALLACE LIED ABOUT HAVING DINNER WITH HER READ MORE ABOUT SICK ALAN ERSKINE & MARTY WALLACE SHE SAID ALAN...