It just occured to me that canceling the hubble sm4 is having the effect of stimulating congress to pump additional money into NASA. If one were generous, one...

Keith Cowing had an excellent article on a topic that is often discussed he the "NASA being a part of the government is what makes space expensive,"...

This is interesting for several reasons. Apparently MDA is wisely hedging its bets wrt coming up with a robust answer to the...

When a new strategy is defined in large corporations, the next steps is to reorientate the various change programs to support this strategy. Similarly, NASA...

http://www.fas.org/spp/military/program/launch/dod1994.pdf

I'm just wondering how feasible this would be as a means to send a servicing mission to Hubble (at a suitable point in time)?: Modify an existing shuttle by...

In a previous post was this press story source AP Poll: U.S. Tepid on Bush's Space Plans By Will Lester Associated Press posted: 03:40 pm ET 12 January...

Hi, Been busy today so sorry in advance if my info is dated. From what I understand Spirit has bad flash memory. Who made it? If that is their best then...

For the record, IMO, the half-time show at the Superbowl, featuring someone in astronaut get-up waddling up a hill waving a flag was close to the tackiest...

Should NASA lift prefab modules to the Moon and Connect them together to form living quarters for 10 people or should NASA send Contruction and...

One of the minor nits I have about the President's space initiative is that it perpetuate's NASA's modern tendency to have boring names for proposed space...

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2443305 Apparently we just didn't really know for sure whether there was water/ice on Mars. Or something.

Why is information on the lander/explorer so hard to find? The official site is written for third grade students. The only transcription site is spaceflight,...

It seems that for rockets of multiple stages with only one fuel combination, there is an interesting engineering decision. Consider a two stage rocket where...

From http://www.house.gov/science/press/108/108-183.htm: H.R. 3752, The Commercial Space Launch Amendments Act of 2004 Introduced by Space and Aeronautics...

Wouldn't it be easier and a lot faster if we took one of these approaches to melt the ice layer on Europa? Detonate a large series of large hydrogen bombs in...

I couldn't believe my ears as I listened to Andy Rooney on CBS' news program "60 Minutes" last night so I checked on the official program transcript and there...

Back when the prize was announced I predicted that no one would win it. At that time Burt Rutan had not announced his intent to go for the prize (other than...

Forgive me for being cynical, but now we know why President Bush gave a big speech about going to Mars (in the out years, of course). As per CNN, it has just...

Is there any known or guessed quantity of He3 on asteroids or dead comets? If an object has been orbitting for 4+ billion years, it should have collected some...