"A small Colorado company has successfully tested a new type of propulsion technology that it believes could eventually enable low-cost,...

"Robert Clark" writes: The computer models describing current climate don't plug in a *continual* reduction in the...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/14/eu_clears_uk_to_give_50m_to_sabre_space_launcher_engine/ Their benevolent highnesses at the European Commission...

"Any organization that pays to put something into space likes to get as much as it can out of its hardware. NASA is no different. So while New Horizons was...

"Bigelow Aerospace of Las Vegas, Nevada, has entered into a joint agreement with NASA to leverage the company's B330 inflatable space habitat for use with...

I'm taking a tip from the subtitle to Dr. Strangelove and have stopped worrying and learned to love the SLS. Why? There are approx. 16 sixteen engines...

http://fortune.com/2015/09/04/nasa-commercial-flights/

SLS will be ready after 2018 around the same time JWST will be launched. SLS is such bad in perspective that it needs a mission to justify itself. Can it bring...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/15/faster_hotter_greener_nasa_puts_new_propellants_through_their_paces/ ... In that ongoing project, the space...

"On Monday, a group of astronomers revealed a new report that lays the groundwork for space-based astronomy after the James Webb Space Telescope ends its time...

"University of Sydney doctoral candidate in Physics, Paddy Neumann, has developed a new kind of ion space drive that has 153% more fuel efficiency than the...

On 9/24/15 10:24 PM, Fred J. McCall wrote : Alain Fournier wrote: On 9/23/15 11:16 PM, Fred J. McCall wrote : JF Mezei...

On 9/21/2015 10:11 AM, Greg (Strider) Moore wrote: That said, if it's a Musk expedition, I can see a real temptation for him to use batteries based on his...

Alain Fournier wrote: You can transform a coal fired power plant into a wood fired power plant. You then capture and store the CO2...

On Wednesday, September 30, 2015 at 12:24:42 AM UTC-4, JF Mezei wrote: If we don't have equipment to detect such life, isn't there a danger that returning...

In article , says... http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4726 NASA Orbiter Views...

"Alain Fournier" wrote in message ... On 9/24/15 9:00 PM, Greg (Strider) Moore wrote : "Alain Fournier" wrote in message...

so the landing craft has a inflatable in tow, a transhab like structure with heat shield built in. the transhab creates enough drag to slow the vehicles re...

Within 80 days Elon Musk should reveal a detailed design for the Mars Colonial Transport Rocket: "Elon Musk has indicated that Spacex would reveal the design...

Earlier this month, the NRO declassified many MOL documents, pictures, videos, and etc. http://www.nro.gov/foia/declass/MOL.html I've not had much time...