As usual: http://www.theonion.com/content/news/annoying_stickler_insists_on_every "The insufferable perfectionist's fixation goes beyond ship maintenance...

Pat Flannery wrote: "Friday 6 March 2009, the spacecraft was meticulously cleaned with a special vacuum hoover." Huh? Was it a Hoover vacuum? :-) In...

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 ,...

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...

The Onion turns in another fascinating story on a little-known corner of NASA:...

1) Admit your were wrong. 2) Correct the graphic immediately. ...Simple as that. I can't believe I'm reading this. I have done the first (maybe...

On Apr 27, 4:47*am, BradGuth wrote: Red giant stars are many, and yet still a little hard to come by, as only a few public images of...

So, what are the books that a person absolutely has to read in order to be able to talk intelligently about Project Mercury? I think _The Right Stuff_...

Pat Flannery writes: Considering they made the puppetoon version of Thunderbirds into a really bad live action movie, ... The *real*...

The Czech Republic's (where the radar was supposed to be emplaced for the Poland-based interceptor missiles) center-right government just collapsed:...

The Warner Home Video Archive has started up a project in which movies that don't deserve to be completely lost and yet aren't popular enough to be...

jacob navia wrote: From http://www.space.com/news/090210-senate-nasa-stimulus-bill.html quote WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate passed an $838 billion...

Konrad, who was one of the original German rocket scientists, passed away yesterday. He was 96. Konrad played a large role in the Apollo program, as a Deputy...

Episode 3 of THE DEEP GEEK goes live tonight at 8pm PT through BlogTalkRadio.com. This is an experiment to see if we can take phone calls and open up the Geek...

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=terminator+&emb=0&aq=f#q=terminator+&emb=0&aq=f&start=10 Terminator 1 was made in 1984 and it's about me & Stephanie,...

What can one say? "Dinga dinga, dinga dinga, dinga dinga, dinga dinga dee." _That's_ what one can say:...

The laser LED of a blu-ray disk writer operates in the blue region of the specturm and puts out about 1/8th watt. Thatt's enough to light a match at a...

Our system is defined by our sun. So when someone says "what system is that" that means what planets are reliant on the particular sun for life. Someone, has...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La5mper4Tmw Actually the Professors hired by NASA are the ones that just sunk their own ass. At precisely 7:29 this video the...

Comrades! It was fifty years ago yesterday that the concepts of "Space" and "Cute, Personality-Filled Monkeys" first met:...