Raleigh NC News & Observer, Jan. 19. Letter to the Editor: Growing problems Solutions to transit problems are difficult to find. Having moved here from a...

I once read a book by Freeman Dyson in which he speculated that we were more likely to find life in places that were colder rather than warmer. He meant that...

How can the Delta performance shortfall be explained? First, the rockets fired for too short of a time. Either (a) they did not start with a full load, or...

There are many reasons to replace conventional rocket launchers with the engine cluster. The conventional rocket engines are large, complex, hand-crafted, and...

Source: http://www.lambdaphysik.com/pdf/pdf_225.pdf "Laser Drilling of Diesel Fuel Injector Nozzles" ....Currently, the apertures in most diesel...

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At 5.00 am jan 14 Huygens lands on Titan moon of saturn. -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/

"gcash" wrote in message ... This is the one that Lockmart dropped/let fall over, right? -gc No, that was...

UFO enthusiasts often tell us there is a govt conspiracy to keep the existence of aliens secret. Why? Is there really any reason why they would do this? ...

Is something MOVING on the surface of Titan? View this animation of 98 images from the surface. Some folks think they see something moving, I know I can see a...

Assume some source of O2 for our plucky astronauts/robots to use in their vehicles' motors. Is the concentration of methane in the atmosphere high enough that...

January 19, 2005 How come we expect this sort of thing from NASA? No Spirit MIs for two weeks, now. They should fire Squyres ass. Thomas Lee...

Is there one anywhere? Showing the current status of both rovers. For example: Spirit Solar panel at 70% nominal output, Dynamic braking relay telemetry on...

On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 10:58:46 GMT, (JPD) wrote: The ideal location is close to water, which narrows it right down. A few dozen...

I've been thinking about about a way to carry out a lunar sample mission that uses penetrators to collect core samples where there might be ice deposits. A...

Just wondering how big the tides on Titan might be? Maybe they're huge? Low gravity in conjunction with a really big moon called Saturn. After all motion is...

Let's assume I have figured out how to make a LEO space station pay for itself once it is in orbit and operational. Let's further assume Scaled Composites has...

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How about a defined purpose for it? I really think that the way to go is first with a long-duration lunar exploration temporary base. Something about the size...

The primary materials appear to be water-ice and hydrocarbon goo. Do we have any ideas what other chemicals might be...