http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/higher_ground_040222.html

Or kill yucca mountain $40 billion and more will be spent by DOE and the commercial nuclear power industry to try to make nuclear waste to "go away" hahaha...

Does anybody know whether Project Prometheus is going to use a turbine-driven generator or an MHD?

It was once proposed to do an automated search of images from the Clementine probe for evidence of lunar lava tubes. The argument (by Taylor and Gibbs) was...

Here's an article that CNN has about nuclear power on space probes. I list some questions about it...

Howdy, I have a satellite tracking program that outputs from AZ,1-359,EL,1-90 in ASCII. I am just wondering how I can convert this to something meaningfull...

I just finished reading Zubrin's "Entering Space", and was somewhat disturbed by his economic analysis of space solar power. Not that I found it off the mark...

JPL has some limited information about the Mars rover electronics and the VME bus: http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/spacecraft_rover_brains.html What...

This is the weekly Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) posting for sci.space.tech and sci.space.science . It is crossposted into sci.space.policy to explain...

Looking at the Mars Rover tracks, I notice that at regular intervals a few feet apart, the treadmarks left in the dust are disturbed for a few inches...

http://www.moontomars.org/ Check it out and see.. So far it is skimpy, but it looks okay. Need latest versions of IE or Netscape/Mozilla. Netscape 4 just does...

Two interesting quotes from Prez. Bush's speech: "We will begin the effort quickly, using existing programs and personnel.... We'll make steady progress, one...

Does anyone know what it is happening with the calibration of Spirit's cameras? Please, watch these photos: The first is of the rock called...

This is the first version of the ARMXER Orbital Skyhook Infrastructure simulation with a GUI and a visual output (available since May...

Why we can not find in the web those beautiful color 3D pictures of Mars? are they holding them for future release in books?

I am interested in getting a copy of the HAVE REGION project report. I have read that this work has been declassified. Does anyone know a reference number...

Assume we send a teleoperated rover to a likely site for a lunar lava tube (ex; my favorite, Aristarchus Crater) and discover that, yes, there is a segment of...

Pardon my ignorance but... What are the specs on the Hubble's rate sensors? How much does it drift and how minute of an angular rate can it detect? Were...

Hi all... The recent uproar over the shuttle no longer planning to service Hubble since it doesnt offer a "safe haven" like the ISS does got me...

Since the subject of turbopump alternatives comes up fairly regularly the following recent (and interesting) paper might be of interest: Knight, Andrew,...