Used a Boeing-developed aluminum alloy on the Shuttle ET without giving Boeing any royalties for its use; now owes Boeing big time:...

On Mar 3, 6:51*am, BradGuth wrote: Were there good enough reasons to sabotage OCO, and/or was Big Energy simply capable of putting...

Hard to believe it's almost 3 decades. I remember waking up to live coverage of the launch on April 12, 1981 (I used to fall asleep listening to an AM...

I overedited my own original post. I was not asking for examples of failed programs in general. I was asking for examples of international collaborative...

I wonder when there will be the "first contact" with aliens from outer space. Are they already here? Did the "first contact" already happen? Or will we meet...

Textron, the big USA Military supplier, Bell Helicopters and Cessna Planes, is active on the Markets on rumours that a Middle East Oil/Gas Producer Country ,...

A mid-1958 concept for a one-man space capsule for the “Military Man In Space” effort. This was intended to be a somewhat more “operational” spacecraft than...

The general public learning too much about Eden/Earth is obviously not such a good idea as far as Big Energy and their faith-based puppets of government and...

A friend passed this lovely montage on to me ... http://www.wakachan.org/yuu/src/1238112931064.jpg Just *look* at all the details provided there for model...

Can't make heads or tails of this: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/structure/elements/soyuz/landing.html Which shows some sort of parabolic antenna...

David Spain wrote: wrote: On Apr 7, 1:45 pm, David Spain wrote: ...

Does anyone know the propellant capacity of the Apollo (CM/SM and LM) RCS? I've looked everywhere, including Chariots for Apollo and Apollo By The Numbers,...

On Apr 6, 12:36*am, (Marty) wrote: Oriel was saying the lady probably did not have pretensions to being an astronomer. No. *She...

David Spain wrote: All of which has to do with the original elimination of the fly-back aircraft that the original plan had envisioned...

On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:04:39 -0500, Pat Flannery wrote: so as to simulate the effect of one giant mirror. Although this is a...

For all of you commen quiestons wether it is prehistoric or futaristic we got all of the history you will need in a short explanation for homework, argument,...

On Apr 8, 7:36*pm, Bluuuue Rajah Bluuuuue@Rajah. wrote: http://www.youtube.com/nasatelevision(13:45 - 14:45 sec) You can barely see the retros fire...

I am! I've lost count, maybe twenty times or so.

Unless I've totally misunderstood things, the recent Shuttle / ISS / Soyuz "event" had 13 people in space at the same time - which I believe equals the...