"By growing arrays of silicon wires in a polymer substrate, researchers have demonstrated what they say are flexible solar cells that absorb up to 96 percent...

http://english.pravda.ru/science/tech/18-02-2010/112279-nano_satellites-0 I don't have a clue what they are talking about. "Specialists of the Russian...

Pat Flannery writes: The astronauts take star sightings and feed the info into the Inertial Measuring Unit to get everything aligned...

I've seen pictures from the recent night launch that seem to show something strange in the SRB exhust. I'm pretty sure it's not a lens internal reflection. ...

"Okay, we've got a great LES here for some future rocket": http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1002/18orionlas/ "According to an Orbital spokesperson, the firm...

-- Why the Constellation's supporters have lost their minds... -- http://www.ghostnasa.com/posts2/063constellationend.html --

They actually shot down a missile with the thing; and sci-fi fans will be happy to know the beam really does glow red, just like in the...

Last Friday I wrote.....(yes I'm bragging) Well, I was really asking about the engine, the AJ-10. Fishing around it looks like that engine isn't...

--- Shuttle: launch cost $600M, payload 24 tons max (+7 astronauts) = $25M per ton to ISS --- Falcon/Dragon: COTS+CRS funds to SpaceX $2.1 Bn / 20 tons (and...

With the increasing of 3D movies we are going towards the "smell-o-cinema" as in Brave New World. We'll have the exaltation of senses and the decreasing of...

Another fine and futuristic Westinghouse product: http://www.paleofuture.com/blog/2010/2/15/rastus-robot-the-mechanical-negro-1931.html Meanwhile, Darpa works...

Just another example of how the agnostic anti-intuitives can't raise their heads out of the sand when it comes to real...

On Feb 5, 8:00*pm, "Jonathan" wrote: "OM" wrote in message ...

http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/9767/usspaceprogram.jpg

Just watched a show on the technology of ISS, the largest constuction project ever. Said by 2016 it will have cost 130 BILLION. That number astounds me.

I mean, I have to question the sanity of any male that wears something like this..."Oh...look at my feathers...I'm a bird...watch me fly"......gawd is it...

On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 14:06:53 -0800 (PST), Eric Chomko wrote: Comparing Cameron to Obama is a stretch. As far as the magnitude of...

In other words, it seems that our resident parrot Nightcrawler has nothing except the usual subjective hype that's all mainstream status quo approved. ~...

-- The pathetic decline of the glorious american space agency... -- http://www.ghostnasa.com/posts2/062nasadecline.html --

On Feb 12, 3:44*am, OM wrote: On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:00:41 -0500, "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)" ...