Jeff Findley wrote: And hope the wiring didn't get botched between the controllers and all those engines, resulting in a good engine being turned off and...

Brian Thorn wrote: It almost happened to Saturn V AS-502 also, the bad engine shut down on its own, fortunately. And Martin-Marietta botched the wiring...

Don't be so picky Fred, I was rounding. Yes, the Hubble has a 2.4 meter mirror. The KH-11 spysat was current technology at the time Hubble was under...

wrote: Furthermore, a NASA history of the Hubble states about the reasons for switching from a 3 meter main mirror to a...

Can't be afforded with live J2X...

"The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) hopes next year to begin full-scale development of its three-stage Advanced Solid Rocket (ASR), with a first...

wrote: Furthermore, a NASA history of the Hubble states about the reasons for switching from a 3 meter main mirror to a...

wrote: Pat It was not just a matter of size but the ESA panels had a more subtle design failure. The heat cycles from day...

On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 21:41:35 -0500, "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)" wrote: Can you document any statement saying that launch...

Why all the hate on any nuclear radiation Orion can put 10,000 people base on the moon or Mars in 1 go , or a 100GWat solar power station ( global warming...

"A company behind plans to open the first hotel in space says it is on target to accept its first paying guests in 2012 despite critics questioning the...

Jochem Huhmann wrote: Additionally the Russians did never test the N-1 first stage prior to launch, while SpaceX already did a full test for the F-9...

"NASA's latest flyby of Mercury upset theories about the planet's composition and volcanic history, even though the probe shut down about halfway through...

"Greg D. Moore (Strider)" wrote in message ... "Jonathan"...

On Nov 12, 10:01*pm, "Jonathan" wrote: But in the same time NASA has built Ares1-X, it appears the Pentagon has built a far more...

One from Japan, one from Interplanetary Society: http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0911/10solarsails/ Is it just me, or does the Japanese one look like the...

According to the e-spectrum, the correct wavelength for 10^-11 m corresponds to 300,000,000,000,000,000,000 Hz, or 300,000,000 THz, a cosmic ray wavelength -...

The Buzzter lays down the law: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/buzz-aldrin/why-we-need-better-rocket_b_351335.html Pat

MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- Preliminary data from NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, indicates the mission successfully...

Most of us use the base 10 number system although civilizations such as the Romans used their number system. Many people think that base 2 is a universal...