For your outrage: http://www.tompaine.com/images/dynamic/427.pdf -- Mark R. Whittington http://curmudgeons.blogspot.com Co-author of Nocturne, a Novel of...

The thread on having to leaving Earth within 25 years got me thinking. What would be achievable? This is a useful policy question, as sometimes it helps to see...

There have been a few discussions here over the merits of using a Heavy Lift Vehicle to support the moon program. To summarise the debate (in round numbers),...

From www.jamesoberg.com The suggestion has been raised in the last few hours that the '100-ft asteroid' due to near-miss Earth in a few hours is not...

March 17,...

msnbc.com (Oberg): "Avoiding the 'F word' on Mars -- F*SSIL" NASA won't speculate about possibility of fossils, but that doesn't mean others...

I've heard that the first Unmanned flight of the Project Constellation/CEV might occur as earily as '07 or '08, but it won't become operational til '14. Are...

A short time ago, John Glenn, retired politician, expressed a certain degree of skepticism about the President's space initiative. However, another son of Ohio...

So where's Ringo?

Along with fossilized bifurcated blueberries (none for my muffin, thank you), and faces in doctored MOC shots, this one scares...

http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~weinberg/mars/m_029_1M130762907EFF0454P2953M2M1.JPG No wonder they want to send a man there. I would volunteer. My regrets, It won't...

In this message I consider the failure probability for a moon mission based on multiple EELV vs. a mission based upon a single launch. I argue that it would...

In article , jonathan wrote: You're still applying classical reasoning to this problem. You wish to...

....a radiotelescope array in northern California. That brings his total donation on the project to about $25M. Most of this equipment is going to be wasted...

March 9, 2004 http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/1/m/040/1M131734806EFF0544P2972M2M1.JPG Almost all the in-situ spherules have these petal like...

Go here and scroll the topics till you find "Space budget and NASA" http://www.johnkerry.com/contact/contact.php?sendto=1 So this begs the question...by this...

Good idea, and looking forward to the new technology going to be developed from the True Geology understanding & based indeed on the UPL ! .... , which will...

What the heck is going on with the Associated Press? Found at Yahoo!News, an AP article by science writer and apparent dingbat Joseph B. Verrengia, with the...

Yesterday the Houston Chronicle carried a guest column from the NASA administrator defending the decision to not service the Hubble with one of the remaining...

I'll be in the Washington-Baltimore area about Apr 23-27 doing some lecturing on China's space program and 'space power theory'. I have some time slots --...