Jacques van Oene wrote: Stunning new images of Titan including a composite of Titan's surface seen during the descent of the Huygens probe Images at: ...

It looks like one rocket is losing the head to head EELV battle. "http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/110578427362870.xml" "Boeing...

I have not yet had time to compose Part 2 of my articles on the Space Cruiser. This has been due to having to travel rather a lot recently (bleah!!). However,...

Now we know what the surface of Titan looks like, its a world with oceans, lakes and rivers of something. How about a follow on mission? Clearly its a unique...

Dr. Flonkenstein wrote: Moreover the Cassini/Hyugens was a European project (ESA). Huygens is an ESA project, Cassini is a NASA project.

http://www.fileplace.info/14012005/3697.jpg I suppose the kooks will come out of the woodwork and claim that this is "proof," but further examination is...

The National Space Society invites you to come to Washington, DC on May 19-22, 2005, to attend the 24th International Space Development Conference. ISDC 2005,...

I am uninformed about space policy; can someone tell me what missions (if any) are on deck for exploration of Titan and Europa in the next 2 decades?

When Huygens data were about to come into ESOC at Darmstadt the only real-time link for the general public was a webcast from the control room via NASA-TV(!)....

Bouncing around various mailing lists is news that the asteroid 2004 MN4 has been rated at a Torino scale impact risk of 2, the first object to ever garner...

"Calvin Rice" wrote in message ... Lefties fail again, this time in space. The...

In looking at all the problems that terraforming Mars would involve, as well as the time scales until it could actually be inhabited are, I think another...

With the launch of Deep Impact, the era of relatively cheap solar system exploration is beginning to draw to a close. Born in the Goldin administration,...

http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/delta2_dpimpact_050112.html Deep Impact went into "safe-mode" shortly after launch....oh my Gawd, that means they're...

On the Huygens landing on Titan. In the last few years of transatlantic bickering, Cassini - Huygens stands out as a superb of what can be done when USA and...

Suppose the Delta-IV heavy problem is indeed caused by a fuel sensor being uncovered early due to slosh/vortex/etc. . On the other hand, the CBC seems to work...

At 5 am EST Hygens lands on Titan. Titan is about half the size of earth. We wait in anticipation. -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client:...

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 22:27:48 GMT, (Henry Spencer) wrote: the ground, and the secret high-speed-motion mode in the arm, there won't be...

Close Encounters What signal calls attention of the others. If there is no motion or sign of action before your first move. One must consider that one is being...

According to Wikipedia, "the total cost of building, launching, landing and operating the rovers on the surface for the initial 90 day primary mission was...