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Thanks to Pat for the Gemini Rogallo references. My questions is: how did they launch the piloted Gemini-Rogallo test vehicle for its glide landings? I think...

http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/2008/08/a_farewell_mess.html Are things really that screwed up down there? Pat

I was trying to dig up more data on that UFO video that James Oberg found, and came across this photo of a supposed crashed flying saucer:...

It is refreshing to know that an accurate understanding of Space History has now hit the mainstream. Neil DeGrasse Tyson last night on The Daily Show with Jon...

"The Space Race was a proxy war against the Soviets." -Steven Colbert That's the most succinct analysis of the space race as I've ever seen broadcast. ...

"El Kabong" Gemini parasail landing tests, 1965 http://www.temple-telegram.com/story/2007/07/23/42334

I just came back from the Liberty Bell 7 display. As much as it pains me, I must admit NASA did a good job on this one. Liberty Bell is enclosed in glass,...

Hi I look for any interesting large database of photos taken duirng soviet mission Lunochod-1 and Lunochod-2. Could anyone shoot here interesting link, where...

Did the LLTVs have images of the lunar surface projected onto their 'windows'? Did some other lunar landing simulator have moving lunar surface images...

http://www.xmission.com/~sferrin/1969_04155L.jpg

An idle question: could the X-15, with the XLR-99 engine, fully-fueled (with or without drop tanks) could have launched itself vertically from a launch pad? ...

Why is ISS so expensive wheras Skylab was so cheap.

"LaDonna Wyss" wrote "JimO" wrote G. Back to the issue of the RCS jets on the Service Module....

Hello all, I'm a longtime lurker and sometime contributor to sci.space.history, hoping that I can be excused for a bit of shameless self-promotion of...

CHANGES OF HEART OUTLINE (Outline and 6/6/86 draft of first 5 chapters, Sept. 12, 1987) Theodore B. Taylor Address and phone until Nov. 1, 1987: 10325...

VIDEO: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon: The $100 billion moon landing...

NASA Encounters Problems With Ares 1 Launch Vehicle Design http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=1171 ".....have reported that the current design is...

NOX/HTPB (R45 Rubber) makes an interesting low-risk, low-cost ($0.05 per kg propellant cost) propellant combination - as used in SpaceShipOne, a hybrid rocket....

Apparently a small chunk of the planetoid flying by Earth has struck a Russian town. Over 400 people injured, no deaths reported...