Could the Apollo program (not counting Skylab and ASTP) have been completed without the group 5 astronauts? It was mainly the group 2 and group 3 astronauts...

If A11 had failed to land, how soon could the next attempt have been? One month, two months, other?

"We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, " I think Jackie wasn't happy JFK spent _too much_ time...

It would seem that the most recent Falcon 9 launch included an unplanned test of its engine-out...

I just got this from a friend: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/08/25/astronaut-neil-armstrong-dies-a t-82/ Condolences to his family and friends.

So many things were going wrong near the end of Cooper's Mercury flight - did the flight director consider bringing him down early?

I was just rereading my "Lockheed Skunk Works" book by Jay Miller, and had a odd thought. Back in 1954, British engineer Randolph Rae gave the Air Force...

Just watched the above documentary, which I assumed was from 2 - 3 years ago but the copyright date at the end was 2005. It was a somewhat sensationalised...

Was there ever any consideration given to using the Saturn 1B as a Second Stage for the Saturn V, eliminating the troublesome development of the S-II entirely?

My 1st and lasting impression of the CM engine bell is it was to big. I do know about the bell size as it relates to use in a vacuum, my question is why the...

....Egads. The "Lost Cosmonauts" hoaxes are *still* going on, over a decade after Mark Wade, Jim Oberg, Phil Plait, Sven Grahn, Henry Spencer, and even Dwayne...

Today is the twelfth anniversary of the arrival on the ISS of Expedition 1 (Shepherd, Gidzenko and Krikalev) aboard Soyuz TM-31. -- Gordon Davie Edinburgh,...

An amateur rocket team (AeroPac 100k Team) has officially won the Carmack Prize for being the first amateurs to launch and successfully record a rocket...

On Wednesday, October 10, 2012 3:18:18 PM UTC-7, Bjørn Sørheim wrote: At a website selling space memorabilities I just found this: A very valuable model of a...

See the article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/48691964/ns/technology_and_science-space/ Now, let's have a collection to get a ticket for Guth so he can go...

aka Skin Strength Of Liquid Fueled Rockets... Sorry I couldn't help myself, I thought the given subject title more catchy! :-D From the thread entitled: ...

Was able to see the Endeavour final ferry flight flyby of Ames/Moffett Field from the fourth floor of an adjacent office building. Nice to see, glad I was...

greetings, 1st time poster.. I have an interesting item in my Apollo Saturn V era space collection. Namely a functioning mint 1970's Walter Kidde 2.2lb N2...

It is often stated that Neil took manual control of the LM to fly past a bad landing site. But wasn't it planned that the CDR would take over at some point?

hello, world\n http://www.gocomics.com/thecity/2012/09/12 OK, so derf gets some of the details wrong. The bzzz is a bit off and the front hatch was round...