SpaceX's Dragon cargo spacecraft is scheduled to start carrying cargo to the ISS in 2011. If there is a major delay in either it or its Falcon 9 booster, does...

Found this while looking around for info on that GE Mars Gemini...

Make of this what you will; a giant natural nuclear explosion on Mars around 180 million years...

I had one of these as a kid: http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2011/05/18/backyard-space-ship/ The star map was a real one for navigation and was printed by the...

"Rocket booster with a man in it"? The idea of using jet fighters for launching small satellites was first played around with in the 1960's, but it looks like...

http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/20110505231124data_trunc_sys.shtml Kirk: "Scotty, it's got to hold for sixteen minutes, or we're all dead!" Scotty: "I'll do...

A Thiokol concept for using a 260" SRM as the first stage for an ICBM: http://up-ship.com/blog/?p=10434 Throw weight to 8,000 nm: 110,000 lbs. Neat.

Good news from the hobby stores everyone! Among the things I picked up this week that I haven't got time to build: 1. AMT/ERTL's re-released the 'Men In...

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/03/mit-saves-the-world-project-icarus-1967/ I had heard of this, but this is the first detailed write-up I've...

I remember that someone came up with that idea, back about 1980. What happened to it? I thought it was one of those NASA ideas that got a few drawings and a...

Notice how close it was to the ground, before it pulled out of the steep descent. And why do the tail nacelles look so much like...

I've been looking at the NASA site, and Bolden's announcement says that Orion is also gone, but there's also other sites say that a version of Orion may be the...

Are they going to get the new cupola fully activated during the time the Shuttle is at the ISS, so we can see views from inside of it as the Shuttle departs...

The first flight version of the SpaceX Falcon 9 has been erected on the launch pad: http://www.spaceflightnow.com/falcon9/001/100221rollout/ Launch is not...

Space.com, Spaceflight now, and Spacepolitics.com are mentioning this space summit with the President in attendance scheduled for 15 April. Is this for real,...

Gents, has anyone seen this article on thespacereview.com? The author compares ObamaSpace to the Gemini program, which served as the technology demonstrator...

This isn't a history question, but here seems to be the only fairly active space-related newsgroup left. Feel free to refer me elsewhere. In this video of a...

This really is a history topic. Back in 1960/61, there was a proposal in the UK for a liquid hydrogen third stage for a satellite launcher. There would be...

In 1955, Lord Hives of Rolls Royce signed an agreement with the President of North American Aviation to licence the S3 rocket motor. Apparently they were old...

Has there ever been any consensus that Buran was a copy (stolen) of the U.S. Shuttle? The resemblence of the two seems to be too close to be anything...