Mercury-Redstone 7 Mission Transcript MET min:sec - Transmission 00:02.3 - Ahh, Roger; lift-off and the clock is started. 00:08.3 - Yes sir, reading you...

Hi! Today, October 23, 2006, is the 100th anniversary of the first flight made by Santos Dummont, in Paris, France, with an airplane, the 14-bis. As part of...

OM wrote: http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,20620744-953,00.html At least marmite was not available when I was in the US back in the early...

From the U.S. Defense Technical Information Center server, an interesting read about the politics behind the early Soviet Space and rocket programs. The...

A brief passage from the book "This the world will never know" by the Judica Cordiglia brothers. The book (in Italian) has just been published in Italy by...

I recently learne that NASA is planning to send a probe to Europa in 2015. But for some reason, I started thinking, what if it was not an unmmaned probe that...

.....our priorities for space superiority a 1.) space situation awareness; 2.) defensive counterspace; and, as a last resort, 3.) offensive...

In the recent debates about water on Mars, it should be noted Mars is not as cold as most seem to think. Quite nice near the equator most...

Am considering a trip to Hutchinson, KS to see the Cosmosphere. If anyone has visited it, I would welcome your impressions & opinions. Also, is there...

If Apollo 13 had been successful, how would the remaining schedule have been different? 13 would have gone to Fra Mauro, 14 wouldn't have to. Where was the...

German cottage destroyed by meteor http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2590879 Oct 20, 2006 - BERLIN (Reuters) - A fire that destroyed a cottage near Bonn...

Von Braun Forum draws Apollo vets Astronaut, rocket engineers to recall early days in...

Right -- as if Jack Lousma hadn't piloted the backpack maneuvering unit around the in side of Skylab in, oh, about August 1973. NASA either start getting some...

Just back from a weeklong visit to VA and its environs, and spent a fantastic day at the Udvar-Haze (America's Hanger as they are calling it). The place is...

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Astronautix.com (http://www.astronautix.com/craft/satkshop.htm) mentions a 1964 proposal by von Braun essentially to create a Skylab space station but keep the...

The returning space tourist according to a news reader on this mornings news states that "space smells like a burned cookie" An interesting tidbit for those...

Although the Centaur stage was first launched in May 1962, its first operational launch (Surveyor I) didn't come until May 1966. Not counting the first...

Get a load of the inlays on this guitar: http://s53.photobucket.com/albums/g53/aqua- tarkus/Martin%20Guitars/?action=view&current=IMG_2206_79_1.jpg A lunar...

Apparently, the U. S. and Israel are on the outs: http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=32206 And what's all this about a war with Syria next summer? Pat