Anyone provide me with sample dialogue from a Russian launch sequence. ie: Soyuz. I'm assuming that they use a countdown process. In a western font please...

Hello everybody. I would like to open a thread on Space Safety and start with an extract: The risk level currently specified (and achieved) in...

There keep appearing arguments about the percentage of the Suns rays that hit Earth which would be blocked by a sun shield positioned at the L1 stable...

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Hello fellow enthusiasts! NewVoyageNews.com is looking for original articles/news about the Space Tourism Industry. Right now, the only reward I can offer...

Suitsat was widely predicted at the time to have lasted about 6 weeks before decaying. It lasted more than 6 months. Is this due to uncertainty of the...

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I have limited math skills at the moment so I’ve yet to figure out all the particulars. Can anyone here tell me if something like this could work? Imagine a...

Supposedly the slingatron is one of the more sound and more thoroughly reviewed of potential hypervelocity systems, but there are a few problems I can't figure...

I'm searching for a technical report written by Levin and Deresh about 40 years ago, the following: Deresh, D.A., and Paul Levine, "Effect of Collisions on ...

....And now we have Dick Tracy's Space...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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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...

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...

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...

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...