This is slightly off topic, but I do see people talking about commercial space in here. From what I can tell, the group launching the SpaceLoft XL ran into...

Today's reentry went ballistic, putting more g forces on the capsule and its occupants. No explanations from the Russians on why this trajectory was used. I...

http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2007/11/20071113_kaguya_e.html Heh heh heh ... Go JAXA! Go Japan!

Okay, you have all seen the mathematical trick where you are in a classroom of say, thiry people, and the speaker asks those present to name their date of...

http://voanews.com/english/2008-02-11-voa58.cfm Dongfan Chung...the Red Wiggler who wormed his way into Boeing! What does Beijing want to know about our little...

I had long thought before Apollo it was widely agreed that the way to get to the moon was through assembly or at least re-fueling in low Earth orbit, and that...

In 1968, Apollo 8 took the famous Earth Rise image; now the Japanese have taken a much sharper...

In the first few minutes, the X-15 was mentioned and footage was shown. The VO intoned the reasoning behind the X-15 was "...NASA wanted to get into space and...

Hi. I have read and am in the process of reading some books on the history of the space program. I enjoyed Andrew Chaikin's A Man on the Moon tremendously. I...

The Force was not with it: http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/geekend/?p=939 Pat

http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/briefing/sts98/images/slide12lg.jpg What you guys think?

Was any consideration ever given in the early 60s to reaching the moon with a rendezvous at the Earth-Moon L1 (or L2) point? References?

Back in good ol' medieval times, you could always tell when the ****e was about to hit the fan when things started going entirely wrong; when dogs and cats...

I thought the plan was to exclude other nations, but this is what's being reported today- The New York Times December 4, 2006 NASA Makes Plans for Permanent...

On Wed, 06 Dec 2006 17:40:10 +0800, wrote: (Henry Spencer) writes: In article...

CNN reports that- Peter Boyle, who played the tap-dancing monster in "Young Frankenstein" and the curmudgeonly father in the long-running sitcom "Everybody...

December 22, issue of...

Does anyone have a picture of the Gemini with the Nose Sensor Shroud in place? Thanks, Carl

http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/04/10/astronaut.arrested.ap/index.html ....According to the story, a police search of former astronaut Lisa Nowak's car turned up...

Have there been more than one in orbit at the same time ever? tinyurl.com/55lpaq