Then, like Japan, it will become a self-replacing industry of self-reconfigurable robotics based on passive, stochastic self- organization. The few who survive...

I'm in orbit around the most boring planet in the solar system now: http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/ Please talk to me, I'm really depressed and all...

"Spurs-a-jingle boffins in America say that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), most puissant matter-rending machine ever assembled by humanity, may also turn...

On 3/17/2011 7:56 PM, Brian Thorn wrote: illegal drugs are not compatible with manned space operations ever For all we know, it belonged to a...

Rand Simberg has done some animated cartoons describing how pork barrel politics hinders making progress in space. In my opinion, he hits the nail on the...

On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:47:40 -0700 (PDT), bob haller wrote: On Mar 16, 5:30*pm, me wrote: On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 14:36:11...

If you plot the energy per nucleon versus atomic weight of every isotope known, you will see that everything lighter than Iron-56 gains energy when its nucleus...

It seems a bit odd. Leaving aside the NASA ISS business, SpaceX has over a dozen commercial GEO sats booked for the Falcon 9. ULS/Boeing/ LockMart have none...

Wednesday, 3/16/11 - Three weeks till Space Access '11! The conference will once again take place at the Grace Inn in Phoenix Arizona. Book those flights now;...

IF the worst-case were to happen, and all three reactors melts through their reactor vessels, releasing large amounts of radiation into the wind for several...

I propose that high energy solar protons be used to produce neutrons via "spallation". These neutrons would then be used to produce fission fragments in a...

OK, space cadets and antigravity freaks, this guy wants you to believe this is REAL! http://wmsn.net/howto/grebennikov.htm

Here we go again, If you look quick you can almost see eyes, a mouth and a nose on the right hand side of the tube. So where are the fantastic announcements...

If all you want to do is put 1 kg in low lunar orbit, it can be done with a rocket with mass no bigger than 391 kg! Here are my calculations (I used the...

For anyone that hasn't gone through this exercise, this is a great example of combining two concepts, Newton's Second Law, and the Lorentz transformation into...

Bigger, hotter, and not...

wheres all those bucks??

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20110307/sc_space/scientistsdubiousoverclaimofalienlifeevidenceinmeteorite "It isn't a real science journal at all, but is the...

"Lockheed Martin is in the last week of thermal vacuum tests before shipping Juno, NASA’s solar-powered Jupiter spacecraft, to Cape Canaveral in early April...

To go with their new and improved reissue of the Aurora 2001 Moon Bus model, Moebius Models has now issued a new and improved 2001 Pan-Am Space Clipper...