Hardly a week goes by without some news item about Mars and the likelihood of manned flight to it. I ask, where is there a cape Canaveral launch facility on...

I was hoping someone could help me with the following question. I am trying to understand something of the size of the universe, and I came accross a quote...

Took a new to the area friend out to 528, he took some snaps: http://67.8.244.66:8080/~ogw/Titan-IV.html -- This is a siggy | To E-mail, do note ...

Luna's crust is made of the same rocks as the Earth's crust, so it was part of the Earth long time ago. Some astronomers believe that a collision between...

As part of commemorating the upcoming thirty-fourth anniversary of the first Apollo landing, this week's Fox column has my take on where we stand on that...

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...

"rk" wrote ... sci.space.moderated will be closing its doors on Monday. Well, there goes the first 'great experiment' since democracy.

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...

I saw this strange line of stars while browsing through Microsofts WolrdWide Telescope , does anyone know what it is? Link: ...

So over the last year or two there have been a lot of dicsussion of ECO (engine cutoff) sensors, which figure out whether the shuttle's external tank has run...

Here is another question a little less technical. When Charlie Duke left to go to the Moon on Appollo 16, he took with him a family picture and took a shot of...

I have a Celestron CPC800 that I've had for over a year and haven't used it yet (family issues). I love discussing anything concerning physics, astronomy,...

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How does a man with no depth perception get the nod to develop the Apollo Lunar Television Camera? Stan Lebar is our guest, talking about his beginnings as a...

al owens Individuals don't accomplish things,as vast as exploring space, or even exploring this planet. Groups of individuals, pooling their resources and...

Is there any news on Mars Global Surveyor more recent than: http://www.marstoday.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=21260 ? It seems like there was a problem with the...

StarDust or EarthDirt? Would extremely small pieces of Stardust impact somewhere within the aerogel? 10,100,1000,... atoms, at some point it would miss the...

James Oberg wrote an article in 1982 about how a lot of Soviet UFO sightings were actually secret rocket tests and test warhead...

I'm working on a book about space technologies, policies, hopes, and attitudes toward them. The NSS' Ad Astra Online has started running an essay condensed...

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