The world shook for 120 seconds today. Quite impressive, once again. -- "The only thing that galls me about someone burning the American flag is how...

I dropped into the local bookstore last weekend to pick up Richard Clarke's new novel. As I entered the store, there was a familiar face on a dust jacket....

what happened to the white kids after the mom died?

From a 1996 oral interview with Guy Thibodeaux, an early NASA propulsion honcho. Interviewers are Ken Cox (still active at ATWG) and anthropologist Robbie...

Did nasa ever state what would happen to the lower stage left on the moon?? If the hydrazine fuels leaked it could of caused a explosion. as far as I know...

After all these years. Were there enough volatiles to explode it? Any idea of whats probably occured after all these years?

We have had the first woman in space, the first woman pilot, the first woman commander, etc. Will the next Soyuz journey be the first space journey for which...

See http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/2007-05-09-mercury-13_N.htm?csp=34#uslPageReturn for the opinion piece, and join the discussion!!

Until now, only MEN were on the moon, no women. This is because women don't have a "rocket" between their legs and that means women have no penis.Without a...

I think first we need to understand that how we can make a good path of electricity to flow.first we should make a sender by which electricity can be send then...

URL:http://video.wired.com/watch/wxd-a-photographer-s-quest-for-the-perfect-space-shuttle-shot A presentation from Wired By Design, by Dan Winters. You...

Perhaps of some interest. - - - - CIRCUIT BREAKERS AND FUSES Circuit breakers used in the command module for both Blocks I and II utilize thermal elements;...

"Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice." the poet Robert Frost wrote. But little could anyone know that three times, worlds would end in both...

I was under the impression that, while the Shuttle's wing configuration was dictated by the Pentagon's requirement for crossrange, it still came in handy...

The long waited NASA book on the Shuttle is out: "Wings in Orbit" not in print yet (GPO screwed the job) but as pdf:...

Okay, somebody explain to me what the hell this is all...

I have some PDFs and images of winged Gemini, but I don't have any large -- and clear -- images of the thing from the side. Does anyone know where I could get...

.... maybe NASA/JPL used a beta version of Windows for Rovers(Mars version) on Spirit; hopefully Opportunity has the alpha version. hmmm????

Via Modern Mechanix, natch. From the Dec., 1947 Mechanix Illustrated: http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/12/19/how-will-you-talk-to-the-martians/ Ends up...

Lots of big plans and neat, moody, illustrations: http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/01/07/race-to-the-planets/ Apparently, all space missions will occur in...