John Savard wrote: but, as Robert Zubrin notes, it does seem to be the best place to set up a colony. However, are...

A manned mission to visit one of the Viking landers could provide us info on how various materials on the landers have held up to the Martian atmosphere and...

Does anyone know of any assessments of the accuracy of the listings of various intelligence satellite launches that can be found among the other launches in...

Of what's affordable and what's not; clearly of anything manned is going to be spendy and time consuming, not to mention potentially lethal. Though instead of...

Here is a scary thought: What if the Shuttle was canceled and the last HSF was Apollo-Soyuz? With out HSF would NASA still be here today? (If NASA still...

No, not from the budget axe or the usual suspects, but from a far more pernicious foe: the TooMuchNewStuffAtOnceists. I sent the president's space commission...

February 19, 2004 NASA - National Space Assholes JPL - Just Plain Lousy. Thomas Lee Elifritz http://elifritz.members.atlantic.net

I was just thinking, there may be a rather simple point that will make human spaceflight more or less irrelevant. Suppose at some point, quite possibly in just...

February 19, 2004 Ok, let's see who we are dealing with in MERgate. Steve Squyres (Principal Investigator and asshole), Cornell...

Okay, we've got X-33, X-34, X-37, X-38, and X-43 that've either failed or had big-time problems. Were there any X-type space-related projects during the...

Found at: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Moon-Mars.html Backers: Privatize Moon - Mars Mission Funds By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published:...

IMO, the main problem with prizes is that prizes do not do much to encourage sponsorship or investment in competing teams. Corporate sponsors spend their...

February 19, 2004 But not MER instrument spectra. Show US the spectroscopy, assholes. Thomas Lee Elifritz http://elifritz.members.atlantic.net

How many times does a man have to go to the Moon to prove he has been there? The answer is 6 times. Apollo 9 - the famous and awesome trip Apollo 10 - didn't...

I was surfing through rec.travel.air, and someone had posted this link to an image of a botched paint job on a United Airlines...

February 13, 2004 from Mars? http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/1/p/020/1P129965448EFF0352F0006L8M1.JPG Thomas Lee...

Am I the only one who would love to see a 360 degree panorama of the surface of Earth's hellish twin Venus? It's such a fascinating environment. Any probes...

= INSTALLMENT #3: important UPDATE to my original article Several weeks ago, I announced the first installment of my "Discovery on Mars" series... this...

According to spaceref.com, a White House press release names the following individuals to be Members of the Presidential Commission on Implementation of United...

I was around the first time the US sent men to the moon. About the time of the first landing, the movie 2001 came out. That was how it was going to be 30 years...