Is the title of my latest Fox column, in which I discuss the rights...

Did large meteor impacts cause volcanoes on the other side Mars? Here's approximate locations for those regions indicating a rough correlation as global...

http://www.alltel.net/~estar/orbiter.html Animated parachutes like the most recent gemini. The Retrograde clock and timer. Automatic calculation of retro time...

Meridiani has a very strange feature. There are craters and no ejecta. Is the ejecta all covered by some recent event? If so, why is the surface surrounding...

In few hours NASA's Messenger orbiter will be launched toward Mercury. And the new MESSENGER Mission group has just...

Hi All: NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft is set for launch on Sunday night-Monday morning. The craft should be visible with simple optical assistance shortly after...

As part of commemorating the upcoming thirty-fourth anniversary of the first Apollo landing, this week's Fox column has my take on where we stand on that...

There's an interesting account at http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=1034 of a talk that Mike Griffin (NASA administrator) gave about...

Hayabusa is still set to attempt landings on asteroid Itokawa on Nov. 19 and Nov. 25, according to JAXA, even though the sub-probe Minerva failed to make its...

Suppose one wanted to trim the many different rocket designs we have to the minimum useful few. We'd like to have a rocket well suited to every task, but...

James Oberg wrote an article in 1982 about how a lot of Soviet UFO sightings were actually secret rocket tests and test warhead...

Hi All: I have justed posted several images of the rare Minuteman III dusk test launch of 2002 SEP 19. They are...

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060713.html The above is the "Astronomy Picture of the Day" It's an animated .gif of the shuttle just as the solid...

Just an FYI to all you self-starters out there (especially non-engineers/non-techies) who want to get a better handle on some of the why's and wherefore's of...

Bush's speech is at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/01/20040114-3.html There's a White House Fact Sheet...

Trees... from the Moon By Richard Black Environment correspondent, BBC News They have been to space and back and virtually all of them lived to tell...

My assessment of the two candidates on space policy: http://www.techcentralstation.com/110104F.html

http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/simberg200312170856.asp

Hubble is orbiting with a perigee of 584km and an apogee of 618km. Would it still function if it was manouvred into an orbit matching that of the ISS (perigee...

This might be a really dumb question, but I've been doing some reading for fun and have come to understand the following... Our solar system is part of the...