What is the state of Nozomi now? There is little or nothing information available on any English language Japanese web sites, and all information is pretty...

When a stuntman jumps off of a build, he lands on a large airbag. The idea of having a reusable capsule land on a huge airbag seems interesting. If the...

http://www2.keck.hawaii.edu/news/LGS_AO.html KECK OBSERVATORY REACHES MAJOR MILESTONE ON ROAD TO EXPAND ADAPTIVE OPTICS Keck Observatory News Release October...

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How much shielding is necessary to protect electronics etc. from permanent damage from the particle flux of solar flares? Or, for that matter, from cosmic...

Today, NASA issued the long anticipated Announcement of Opportunity for the New Frontiers Program 2003 and Missions of Opportunity....

Recently I was reading that the reason mosquitoes always land head-up on the walls is that they use gravity to help their digestion. What I was wandering is:...

(1) JUST A SMOKESCREEN: 'METEOR' PIC WHICH FOOLED NASA The Sun, 7 October 2003 http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2003461335,00.html By PAUL...

Go to my web site http://www.svengrahn.pp.se/ * Select "What's New" * Select entry for 12 October 2003 Best Wishes Sven

This is the weekly Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) posting for sci.space.tech and sci.space.science . It is crossposted into sci.space.policy to explain...

Can someone recommend me a source where I can buy thin, light-weight solar panels in various sizes? The vast majority of 'consumer' solar battery chargers and...

(Matthew) writes: Hi. I don't know much about physics, but I had an idea. I have been reading a book about Black Holes and the...

Michael Braukus Headquarters, Washington October 15, 2003 (Phone: 202/358-1979) RELEASE: 03-334 LATEST NASA SPINOFF PUBLICATION AVAILABLE...

http://www.lowell.edu/press_room/releases/recent_releases/dct_rls.html For Immediate Release October 15, 2003 contact: Rebecca Stenholm CKPR (602) 417-0684

Greetings to all, please have a look, if it interests you to take part in an experiment with Electric Thruster Ion Plasma Engine tests onboard the...

I have added the ability to simulate meteors to my simulator. It can calculate the trajectory, how much mass is left, the diameter, megatons of energy when it...

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) - Researchers are proposing an elevator reaching 100,000 kilometres into the sky that would be able to launch payloads into space at a...

Caltech News Release For Immediate Release October 16, 2003 Contacts: Robert Tindol Caltech Media Relations (626) 395-3631

It looks like during the shuttle's early development that the excitement was on hydrogen/LOX, the 'ultimate' fuel combination for chemical...

Jan Philips on sci.space.history asked "How low can you orbit?". I have a space simulator that could be used to play around with this kind of problem. I had...