From the picture below, it looks like there are two types of "blueberry" - one is light color/high reflectivity (tan) and the other is darker (blue-gray). The...

Is for this launch services exclusive of the booster cost? $135 million seems a bit cheap for Delta IV...

That's not the title of my latest Fox Column, but it should have been. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,111821,00.html

February 27, 2004 proteinaceous spongin fibers - collagen http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/molecules/pdb4_1.html "If this phylogenetic hypothesis is accurate, it...

In regards to the big bang: Instead of an explosion which originates from a superdense point of space, could it be possible that two (or more) dense matters...

I was wondering why the idea of earth based mass drivers as a way to fly up fuel, raw material, and volitiles aren't floated more. It seems like logistically...

Here is a short article with an illustration of the new proposed Russian manned spacecraft "Clipper". The original article in Russian is...

Are they still planning to send Spirit heading for the distant hills eventually? "Ron" wrote in...

+ This is a Science Forum, and the question of possible life on other planets has often been asked... what I suggest here is that this question has now been...

February 26, 2004 If you take a look at some of the orbital imagery of Meridiani, you will see that there appears to be quite a bit of reef and...

We're getting hit, so watch out. I got an e-mail with an attachment called "undefinied.rtf.scr" (sic). Looks suspicious as hell.

Arianespace.com has the V158/A518 (Rosetta) press kit online, which provides interesting info on the planned 2/26/04 launch. This will be the first Ariane 5G+...

In article , Steve Dufour wrote: The four-days of discussion were kicked off by...

A request arrived in the mail yesterday from some fella in Germany wanting a signed photo of Vance Brand (astronaut). Somehow, he got the idea that Brand has...

jeff findley wrote If this is true, why is NASA considering boosting it to 2,500km? Ditching it in the Pacific would seem...

Since the Concorde is NOT SUPERSONIC, when it flies from NY to Paris... The flight was eventually cancelled... Since the Space Shuttle does not go faster than...

The following message was sent to me by a buddy who works closely with VXWorks, a commercial RTOS that's used on Spirit. Unfortunately he couldn't identify...

any takers???

Several of the space news sites are carrying articles claiming that Energia is developing a 6-man reusable capsule. Yuri Koptev is saying that they are well...

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/02/17/russia.spacecraft.ap/index.html Russian engineers have begun design work on a new spacecraft that would be twice...