Ah yes, the launch of this new Thugocracy means they all are now Spaaaace Pirrraates! Arrrrh Matey, yuh Scurvey Ball Lover! Keel Haul the bilge rat! Grab that...

Mining the Moons of Mars ......if platinum were required for high efficiency fuel cells for automobiles, only 20% of the world's ground vehicles could...

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=27382 Although my last suggestions for naming the Mars Pathfinder lander and rover were not accepted by NASA...

See: http://science.slashdot.org/science/09/01/12/0135200.shtml

LOL, gaetano's not gonna like it ! Direct makes the headlines again ! Article on Popular Mechanics website :...

The Mars life thing and mostly this NG reminds me of the Ray Bradbury chapter from "Martian Chronicles" where the astronaut from earth is put in an insane...

space.com reports sources in the Obama transition team are looking closely at Charles Kennel as the replacement administrator at NASA, taking over from Mike...

I do have to agree that a solid booster is probably safer than a liquid fueled one. It certainly has far fewer things to go wrong. On the downside, once...

On Jan 14, 1:57�pm, wrote: Pat: Assuming the field joints of the engine can take the increased pressure of the seven...

The establishment is attempting to extradite a computer hacker Gary McKinnon. McKinnon hacked into NASA and Pentagon computers in a search for ET. There is...

Pat: Assuming the field joints of the engine can take the increased pressure of the seven segment engine burning, their really shouldn't be any ...

New shots of the whole assembled rocket at the Cape: http://www.spacex.com/updates.php Nice looking rocket; bears some resemblance to a Zenit booster. Pat

From the "Here's a laugh thread..." http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/090106-space-shuttle-mars-flight.html OK, I admit I believe as stated this is...

See: http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story.jsp?id=news/STAGE010909.xml&headline=SpaceX%20Aims%20For%202009%20Re-usability%20Demo&channel=space I hope...

http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/NEWKHSITE/data/html_dir/2009/01/09/200901090037.asp In S.Korea they are actively developing intelligent robots. The "intelligent...

Pretty close to my own, actually, but how are the Israelis going to deal with living in a country that's around thirty times as long as it's wide? Also, what...

This site has a very useful table of delta v between various bodies in the solar system. http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/rocket3o.html Note that earth orbit...

This is kind of curious considering how silent the PRC has been on the topic. ===================== Space Weapons Scientists Honoured Hong Kong South China...

http://www.floridatoday.com/content/blogs/space/2009/01/gao-report-faults-nasa-oversight.shtml Pat

Ends job on January 20th. Question now is...who replaces him? And what does it mean for Constellation and...