Sounds like a great beginning for a 1950's Sci-Fi movie plot: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28023860/ Seriously, if it is from another star system, this would be...

Here's another good one for the old status quo gipper of remote Usenet censorship, and/or of robo-moderation that's oddly not getting the least bit opposed by...

In the late 60s and early 70s, the Soviets landed two Lunokhod rovers on the moon that drove many km over the surface. These two vehicles were very successful...

It didn't stop the Soviets from building a Shuttle clone, either. They knew ours would never work economically compared to expendable boosters, so...

I posted last September that water vapor and oxygen in the Mars atmosphere was such that you could support a person's water and oxygen consumption with a...

All time favorite Opportunity pics. Or maybe the unspoken reason, in picture format, for spending $2 billion on what the administrator calls a "Flagship...

See: http://www.space-travel.com/reports/Iran_To_Send_Animals_Into_Space_999.html

This is pretty damned funny. http://www.theonion.com/content/video/nasa_simulator_prepares

See: http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story.jsp?id=news/ROCK12028.xml&headline=XCOR%20Announces%20Space%20Tourism%20Venture&channel=space

Eric Holder : We Will Track Marijuana Smokers Down In Their Homes! We will track you down and root you out of your pathetic caves, and arrest you, and charge...

Quoting Ed Kyle on NSF : "Ares/Orion isn't perfect, but it is the plan for returning U.S. astronauts to the Moon. Those who have so strenuously opposed it,...

Since this topic has come up befo http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2827/how-do-female-astronauts-menstruate-in-space Basically, "it's no big...

http://www.newsday.com/services/newspaper/printedition/wednesday/nation/ny-usnatl195933297nov19,0,2464848.story Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper (by God, now...

It's my impression that the only proposed use for the RS-68A engine is on an upgraded Delta IV Heavy. Is that correct?

The Endeavour space shuttle landing has been delayed, with a landing in Florida cancelled for today due to bad weather. NASA managers are decided whether to...

http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/2008/11/sad_day_for_avi.html Will the writers be replaced by some sort of transformational multi-role writer ala' the...

The corner has been turned! Anyone that failed to double their spare cash this week just wasn't paying attention. A rare stock market crash is also an...

http://www.isro.org/pslv-c11/photos/moon_images.htm Pat

Brad Guth wrote: : Your FTL travel simply isn't in the cards we've been given. Apparently, you're not looking at the cards that have already been dealt by...

Time will tell: http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts126/081122fd9/index5.html Pat