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

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...

The Lunokhod rovers covered a lot of lunar terrain but both eventually stopped working. Specifically, what was it that stopped them working? Did their...

Does anyone know what the radiation lever is at the Van Allen Belts.. And how dangerous it is to humans?? I've read a few things: - the radiation is equal to...

I remember seeing on TV a black and white clip of a scientist making this small wood frame float using some kind of ion propulsion. But that was when I was a...

Hello Group Just curious, what is the highest ISP achieved by a hybrid, not theoretical or in a vaccum, just real sea level results? lets say for Nitrous...

Hi, What is the best config for a space helmut? I've seen all kinds from google search. I like the sphere kind with a hemisphere front. The back of the head...

What is the age limit of traveling to space? The multi-millionair that went up in a russian rocket was in his 60's?

What if (for the sake of discussion) there were a follow up to the Huygens mission in the works. What, given what we've learned so far, would we want on the...

If I were designing the nex Titan mission I would go for a hydrogen balloon. It would not explode on Titan. I like the idea of wind power. At the temperature...

Hi It's been a LONG time since I last heard of Scaled Composites and their X-prize attempt. At some stage the guys seemed to fly at least once a month. Now,...

Hi I was wondering what happened to Armadillo aerospace? I haven't seen an update on their site since 6 Jan 05. Surely they are not giving up. Also, even...

Here's something that's bothered me a bit about the current shuttle design. You have a fixed size payload bay. And doors. Etc. Ok, that's fine if you're a...

Looking at the anomaly report describing the accident (at http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=10299) I noticed that the midsection of the satellite...

What are the internal fax contact numbers for the NASA Pluto and Voyager Missions? -- NASA TV Fax # would be a plus too... I need to pass on a technical...

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I have put together an article about Luna-3 based on Chertok's book, Russian papers I have found in my files and help from Don P Mitchell. The idea was to...

Dear Friends, I have just completed yet another web article, this time about the second, and really first successful automatic docking, that between...

I was too busy this morning to post this note, however; Midday wednesday my mail system was knocked offline by a unusually large spike in virus emails...