Astonishingly, this actually has space history in it. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3387895.stm "Computer researcher Don Mitchell used original digital...

IIRC, before Kennedy's challenge, Apollo was envisioned as a general purpose vehicle; it was dedicated to Lunar missions after Kennedy's speach. Since it's...

From an article in the February, 2001 edition of Petroleum News: http://www.petroleumnews.com/pnarch/010228-49.html "If there is life on Mars, it would...

Uncle Al wrote: Hey stooopid, who put the corner cube arrays at every Apollo site for 25+ years of worldwide Nordtvedt effect testing? Boris, the Space...

NASA Cancels Trip to Supply Hubble, Sealing Early Doom By DENNIS OVERBYE NY TIMES Published: January 17, 2004 Savor those cosmic postcards while you can....

Concerning this return to the Moon project: would there be any advantage of a waystation in lunar orbit? I mean, going beyond LOR-style missions to having a...

The American Mars lander "Spirit" successfully touched down today and immediately began to search for weapons of mass destruction on the red planet. US...

Anonymous Sender wrote: This is my new Idea for spaceship of future Today!!!! Why Not use SUBMARINE as space ship? Isnot SUBMARINE already in...

UPI has a great piece today about the History & Evolution of the Bush Moon/Mars Initiative - from behidn the scenes. Check it out...

ESA, Canada, Japan etc have been subsidizing the ISS without getting a fair share of crew placements. Now Bush wants to kick us all in the teeth by pulling the...

Well it now appears that the 'Beagle' has gone for good and now we turn our attention to the mars mission operated by the scientists at JPL. It ssems rather...

Over the years, some of you may have noticed that my take on the world is a bit "unusual"... one of the reasons it is so dadaist is that I tend to remember my...

I want to start from this statement: On 1966 the US succesfully landed on the moon with a Surveyor class probe. This family of probe, if compared to today's...

(Mike Flugennock) wrote in : That's the question I'm asking myself lately, along...

Olympus Mons is quoted as being nearly 27 Km high. 27 Km above what? Obviously not above sea level. So what is used as the baseline? Jane

Rick DeNatale wrote in message ... IF this plan works out, it provides a(nother)...

Hi All... Just a question - would an Apollo style escape tower system have worked if a new (theoretical Capsule Design) OSP had a serious problem at around the...

....as I still remember all the big-ass speeches and foto ops he staged while claiming to support Our Brave Boystm, all the while cutting veterans' benefits...

The CAIB website (www.caib.us) says that it will become inactive on Feb. 1, 2004, the first anniversary of the Columbia loss. Anyone know if it is going to be...

Our ancestors had spaceships with hyperdrive-engines, they could travel between solar systems in a few hours. But someone stole our spaceships ! Or did our...