I understand that the biggest advantage of pressure fed rockets is far cheaper (and somewhat smaller, lighter) rocket engines, at the expense of very heavy...

I would guess that the first person to walk on Mars would probably be Chinese in about 2020. My odds would be Nationality of first person on Mars :- Chinese...

That's the question I ask in this week's Fox News column. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,102318,00.html -- simberg.interglobal.org * 310 372-7963 (CA)...

Robert Zubrin, the aerospace engineer who is a staunch advocate of exploring Mars, is speaking on Sunday, 9 November, in Schaumburg, Illinois. Here's the...

They should put something on the moon that would give lots of people exposure to it: a) an engineering school - teach a semester of graduate astronautics...

http://www.senate.gov/~commerce/hearings/witnesslist.cfm?id=987 "Science, Technology, and Space Subcommittee hearing scheduled for Thursday, November 6, at...

I know nothing a bout this other than it's on orion. (BBC2)

Hello! Can anyone please help me? I have been trying for several months now to find a high quality audio version of the last minute of the Apollo 11 launch...

Yeah, well _I'm_ not selling it, but this the real thing. Just found the link from...

According to: http://www.spacedaily.com/news/xprize-03c.html ....quoting Randall Clague, the FAA AST has acknowledged that a filed Xcor RLV launch license is...

Okay, I've got three more bits up for sci.space.* auction. This auction is like the last one... send me an e-mail with your bid, I'll let you know if you're in...

...and he's already sold his house in DC.....

The outer shell of atmospheric reentry spacecraft is made of expensive and frail materials. It may be possible to replace the expensive materials with cheap...

Back in 2002, Leonard Robinson mentioned Used Space Books, Richard Jackson's collection. Jackson is now quitting business. Find his site...

The early cosmonauts tried to brave the Van Allen Belt in the late 1950s, and they learned fast that that was a big mistake after a few would-be space men...

Re Senate hearings today on prospects for new manned lunar initatives. Astonishing that witnesses came up with as thin political reasoning as they did. Senate...

Oct 31, 2003 announcement of NASA buy of two Taurus and two Pegasus launches during...

GOES-N was added to the KSC launch schedule, and appears to be the first Delta IV launch for NASA. As noted here some months back, GOES-N was switched from a...

RED ROUND A.I computer stolden form NASA. Franklin Tennessee 1-11-2001

"Heartbreak" writes: Hardly. From http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0310/14shenzhou5/: "The two-stage Long...