In deciding whether or not to fund NASA's proposed Orbital Space Plane - a "space taxi" dedicated to crew transport, in contrast to the current "space truck" -...

For years, children have been intersted in the study of space and everything that comes with it. There is an incredible opportunity for a teenage to go to...

In 2000 National Commission for the Review of National Reconnaissance Office made recommendation to form new Office of Space Reconnaissance. A little bit...

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Bigelow Aerospace's successful launch of the Genesis-1 on 12. July 2006 is the first time a private company claims extraterrestrial space for...

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I took this photo by accident, and I'm trying to figure out what I...

European Perception of Mars Missions. I'm a teacher at the local community college and recently had a European student who reflected many views I've heard...

What an amazing image. Would anyone care to start a discussion on this image? I could analyze it for hours.

Trees... from the Moon By Richard Black Environment correspondent, BBC News They have been to space and back and virtually all of them lived to tell...

Neil Armstrong, in a very rare public appearance, said the following at a recent "Star Trek" fete honoring Jimmy "Scotty" Doohan... "This evening is really an...

Summary of the "Galactic Drifter SETI" search strategy: This strategy is not intended to replace others currently under consideration and in practice, but...

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/01/08/1073437408328.html?from=storyrhs Only robots, not humans, should explore space - if it has to be explored at all,...

I know that billionaire entrepreneur in Las Vegas has a "space hotel" designed and built, but he is leaving it to others to build the shuttle that will get the...

The Spitzer team have an exciting announcement coming out tomorrow, see: http://www.ascribe.org/cgi-bin/behold.pl?ascribeid=20050413.132958&time=15 Anyone...

On 23 Oct 2003 rk wrote in : Congratulations to Graham Drabble, the new Moderator...

Does anyone know, what the status of the Two Wide-angle Imaging Neutral-atom Spectrometers (TWINS) mission is, which has been selected some yeas ago as a...

After a long pause, finally a new Mystery Sat Quiz: I hope, that among all the noise on ssh, there are still some people left, who might have fun in guessing...

Would a Space Elevator http://flightprojects.msfc.nasa.gov/fd02_elev.html be a greater risk to human life per mission than the current space shuttle? While...

Here's something I got to thinking about while considering Earth-like moons around gas giants in the habitable zones around stars. What would seasons be like?...