The Russian News conference with the returning Soyuz crew has just finished. I found some of the comments by Yuri Shargin interesting on his impressions during...

History's Worst Presidential Candidate I'd say the current President GWB would be high on the list We don't try to run your country. Stop trying to...

I haven't been able to get ANY of my comments posted in ANY moderated sci.space.* group since September 3, 2004. Why? When I mentioned this outrage publicly...

Jacques van Oene wrote: Space Weather News for Nov. 7, 2004 http://spaceweather.com Big sunspot 696 unleashed an X-class solar flare on Sunday, Nov....

This topic is not persay about creating a human breathable atmosphere, especially since it's unlikely that much greater than 0.1 bar can be sustained (unless...

Laser-wakefield effect is being exploited to create a new generation of tabletop particle accelerators, in lieu of existing ones that are miles long....

||http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/07/07/aust.missile.pact.reut/index.html || _U.S.-Australia Missile Defense Pact_ ||Excerpt: || "We have a responsibility to...

I was reading that NASA will be scrapping its Scramjet research program after the next X43...

Now that Rutan has won the X-Prize, are there any plans to offer the next generation of x-prize for the next step into space? How about $25M for an orbital...

Posted on Tue, Sep. 28, 2004 It's the market system that will develop space travel imho.

From: http://www.xcor.com/steamengine.html Discussion forum: http://www.xcor.com/phpBB2/ Reg form and...

I'm posting this to s.s.p. a little because it might eventually pertain to space policy stuff, but mostly because it isn't obvious where else to cache it: For...

WE NEED ENERGY INDEPENDENCE! So we arent sticking our nose in everyone elses business... giving them a reason to do more terrorism. . . End the dangerous...

I've read about how laser-sails save you from keeping your power source onboard, because your power comes from a big laser mounted on your launchpad. And...

We have a choice. Do we vote for Moon/Mars, or do we vote to make NASA part of NOAA, the Department of the Interior, or the EPA? How ironic that...

There is one thing it seems Libertarians continuously want to forget that Conservatives have apparently never forgotten. Adam Smith wrote two books, not one....

Jacques van Oene wrote: 'Newton in space' DVD: a fresh approach to teachingscience The new educational DVD 'Newton in Space' was enthusiastically...

1) I understand the speed required to gain orbit is most of the energy expended by a space craft, relatively little is used to actually gain altitude itself....

Treatise: Who goes is who you should see is out there. (Rough early staement.) This idea come from one of my web pages and what I am at present doing. Showing...

Just got word that Ted Taylor, nuclear bomb designer and one of the forces behind Project Orion, died Friday or shortly before.