When getting information about the old-time planetary programs, I got to wondering: if Mariner 3 had been able to carry out it's mission, what part of Mars...

This may be a bit tricky in phrasing, but how independent can Shuttle, Soyuz or planned Orion landings be from the ground? What I mean is can any/all be...

Ok, I found a channel at YouTube with a stream of the 1989 Voyager 2 encounter with...

witness the last couple of days...

From skyandtelescope,com: European Space Agency hopes to clean up space junk February 16, 2009Associated Press/AP...

On Jul 5, 4:57*pm, Rick Jones wrote: In sci.space.history Pat Flannery wrote: Those bulbs have allowed me to...

Juno, NASA's next mission to orbit Jupiter, will be the first manned mission to the giant planet, it has been...

On Aug 24, 2:57*pm, Pat Flannery wrote: On 8/24/2011 7:25 AM, Jeff Findley wrote: I didn't realize that this is the first Progress...

On Wednesday, October 10, 2012 3:18:18 PM UTC-7, Bjørn Sørheim wrote: At a website selling space memorabilities I just found this: A very valuable model of a...

CNN Online is reporting that JPL has announced the end of the Phoenix Lander's mission. There's been no contact with the lander since Nov 2.

Since the Florida primary is today, has anyone down there heard any of the candidates (of EITHER party) state their policy on the future of Project...

I know that when Apollo 13 aborted, A14's landing site was changed to the intended Fra Mauro. But was 14's entire mission a "do-over"? Were Lovell and Haise...

Does anyone here know if there are any studies of the rate of former astronaut (and cosmonaut, of course) deaths from cancer vs that for the rest of the...

Well, it wasn't the weather, but a failed H2 external tank sensor that postponed Discovery's launch today. Apparently they got to the T-31 sec mark. Damn, and...

I'm doing research for an article on (fictional) treatment of the various planets in the mass media; and while I've found plenty of movies or television shows...

I've found a good source for mission patches for all of the American manned missions, but I'd like some from the various unmanned programs. Which ones have had...

Jim McCauley wrote: "Monte Davis" wrote in message ... Take a look at the...

Are probes like the soviet Luna 9 & 13 considered soft landers or hard landers? Years ago, all the sources that I came across insisted that soft landers had to...

Are probes like the soviet Luna 9 & 13 considered soft landers or hard landers? Years ago, all the sources that I came across insisted that soft landers had to...

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/03/mars-rover-discovery-revealed/ http://www.3news.co.nz/Complex-chemistry-found-on-Mars/tabid/1160/articleID/279080/D...