Was there any discussion of this at the time of Apollo? I see papers on using Apollo equipment to go to Mars, for example. In the book "Return to Tibor"...

I mean seriously, if NASA is trying to save money shouldn't they be landing at Davis-Monthan AFB rather than the Cape or...

Comrades! What would Laika think?: http://english.pravda.ru/society/stories/18-05-2010/113401-dog_meat_astronaut-0 Pat

They still don't know what exactly the X-37B does, but they apparently now know where it's at in space at any given...

On Apr 22, 3:47*pm, Brad Guth wrote: On Apr 22, 5:39*am, William Mook wrote: On Apr 21, 2:52*pm, Brad Guth...

I've seen several photos from the Mercury capsule, and all have a tiny orange clock face in one corner. Which corner tells the viewer the correction...

Very nice launch for Atlantis a few minutes ago...view from the ET camera was particularly clear on this launch, with almost no signal fuzz-outs. Did they...

http://up-ship.com/blog/?p=6131 Now available: Full color, high quality prints of NASA-MSFC drawing 10M04574, the Apollo 8 AS-503 Saturn V. The printed areas...

I note that on STS-133, the Leonardo Module is to be left permanently attached to the ISS. Does Leonardo have its own life support and cooling systems, or is...

"J. Clarke" wrote in message ... On 5/14/2010 9:08 AM, Greg D. Moore (Strider) wrote: J. Clarke...

"J. Clarke" wrote in message ... On 5/14/2010 11:16 AM, Jeff Findley wrote: "J....

I'm imagining a simple Excel spreadsheet that lists capsule by mission name, crew, dates, capsule serial number, etc. Is there such a thing? I have some...

Fred J. McCall wrote: "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)" wrote: J. Clarke wrote: On 5/13/2010 11:14 PM, Greg D. Moore...

J. Clarke wrote: On 5/14/2010 9:10 AM, Greg D. Moore (Strider) wrote: J. Clarke wrote: On 5/13/2010 11:14 PM, Greg D. Moore (Strider) wrote: J....

On 5/14/2010 7:19 AM, Jeff Findley wrote: NASP was a research playground which was producing little to no flight hardware, and certainly wasn't producing...

On 05/14/2010 07:48 PM, David Spain wrote: Jorge R. Frank wrote: Too expensive to develop for commercial crew to ISS so the commercial providers won't...

If all you guys want to do is just go up and fall back down for the ride and to get "astronauts wings" and bragging rights you've been in space, build a...

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Currently out of stock, but they should get more of these: http://www.squadron.com/NoStock.asp?item=IBA72201 Pat

Am I correct that solid rocket motors are always running at full thrust, because they have no valves to control the fuel flow, so you can't throttle them up...