Not sure to what extent this sort of thing is news, but some might be interested: Dassault have built and produced an aircraft without building a single...

Hmm, the idea looks far-fetched, but the Economist magazine has bothered to give it some...

Hello to all, In the web there is a lot of material about JIMO, but I haven't found any detailed plan of the entire spacecraft, I like the design, seems...

Space.com has a diagram, and it says the orbital module is "capable of independent navigation" Does this mean it can stay in orbit and function after the crew...

Looking at the planned vehicles for the return to the moon, the article(s) seemed to emphasize leverage of shuttle technology. For example the use of SSMEs and...

I'm a student at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts. We've put together a survey of some possible technological breakthroughs in the next 50...

I read a news item about the original air processing machine on the ISS having been broken for some time, and the astronauts depending on the older "oxygen...

There's gobs of O2 on the Moon (~40% by mass of the Moon's surface is oxygen), but hydrogen is still needed to make water (remember, the poles are a long way...

I am sure this topic has been covered here at some time but I missed it. Would it be feasible to use air breathing jet engines as the 1st stage (or as...

Hello there everyone, I joined this competition callled The International Space Settlement Design Competition organized by Nasa. In th request for proposal...

With the source of thrust so far behind the centre of mass, large rockets would seem to be unstable in flight. So how is this overcome? I could imagine a...

Whereas, Ames no longer supports NNTP, I'll post this note he In short: Mission Control Technologies Job Openings (4) The Mission Control technologies...

Hello there everyone, I joined this competition callled The International Space Settlement Design Competition organized by Nasa. In the request for proposal...

Huge Meteorite Found Underground in Kansas, USA A rare 1,400-pound meteorite was discovered seven feet underground by a collector in an area long known for...

Any benefit of fuel/oxidizer moving w/high momentum, maybe BIG hoop-tanks? Maybe avoid pressurization though obviously centripetal force on tank walls means...

ISRO To Launch Israel's Spy Satellite Israel has decided to launch its next spy Satellite aboard India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rather than its...

A recent patent related to space travel (Nov 1, 2005). "Space vehicle propelled by the pressure of inflationary vacuum state" US Patent 6,690,975 by Boris...

question: what orbit maxes sunlight w/ ship that faces same way, i.e., due to rotating axis pointing at sun - - - am trying to have large glassed area always...

Conventional wisdom is that fission can't produce fast interstellar velocities, except by powering a propulsion beam. Here, I show how bombtrack propulsion can...

We've already had discussions about anti-matter being used as a fuel one day, but typically there were criticisms about the stability of the magnetic bottles...