I had posted awhile back looking for a laptop and hard drive that could work at 30,000ft. I found a suitable hard drive at www.mt-optech.com.....just wanted...

NASA Vessels up on 5711 kHz USB ------------------------------- It is Sunday 10:09am EDT (1409z). The NASA SRB recovery vessels "Liberty Star" and "Freedom...

Heads up - STS-121 problems --------------------------- It is Monday, 12:24pm EDT (1624z). The S-121 Management Team is about to begin a briefing that will...

STS-121: Saturday pre-launch activities have begun -------------------------------------------------- It is Sat, 7:34am EDT (1134z). Range Clearance...

Corrected version: STS-121: Tuesday pre-launch activities have begun -------------------------------------------------- It is Tues, 7:34am EDT (1134z). ...

For those of you who may have read my article about planetary chauvinism "Somewhere Else Entirely" at http://members.aol.com/howiecombs/somewhere_else.htm, I...

In an an article in space.com, Harrison Schmitt said, "potentially substantial amounts of solar wind hydrogen are present everywhere on the Moon along with...

This topic was mentioned in sci.space.policy (How to Cool a Planet), but sci.space.tech is a better forum for serious technical debate. The review of nearly...

In article , Rick Jones writes: I've been curious about the roll the Shuttle does during ascent. ...

Good Morning, I would want to ask you if the ESA images coming from satellites are used also for militar scopes or just environment, who are the...

I have been thinking a while that how to ground a satellite or shuttle at the vacuum environment. Can someone explain this? Extra resources will be grateful...

I've been curious about the roll the Shuttle does during ascent. One reference I came across: http://www.cdli.ca/CITE/sts_ascent.htm says: About 20 seconds...

For use in a private scientific project I'm researching how long a small earth orbiting satellite will operate. The satellite's electronics needs to generate...

Possibly of interest - although, as its elset parsing is still weak, perhaps not as useful to the observation crowd as it is to those wanting to play with...

I've lost count of how many times on these newsgroups I've encountered someone saying that providing space habitats with natural sunlight via mirrors and...

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I was told that if you venture into space without a suit, you will essentially explode due to lack of pressure. Out of curiosity, is this true? Thank you.

Hard drives on 'Deep Space' missions: any idea why they are never used? 4 x 100 Gb drives could store enough data such that it could take up to 6 months to...

From a Florida Today article http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060827/NEWS02/608270331/1007 An initial Ares 1 test flight is...

The rocket launchers are not economical because they are not reusable. When they reenter the atmosphere, their slender bodies soak up so much heat from...