Abrigon Gusiq wrote: What is the procedure and protocols for when the Shuttle is known to have taken some damage? Depends very much on the circumstances....

(Josh Gigantino) wrote in message ... Someplace on the Tethers Unlimited website, Mr...

"James Nicoll" wrote in message ... No. For one thing, there's a real problem coming up with a gas ...

How does one launch a into a polar orbit from French Guyana? Where does the first and second stage drop? I understand they are not bombing New England, but...

Carbon nanotubes might make a *great* spaceship building material. However nothing is perfect. Are there any known problems with using carbon nanotubes,...

What's the current state of the art in ion engines? How well do they do, and when one adds solar panels (or some other energy source) and such to the mix,...

It seems that for rockets of multiple stages with only one fuel combination, there is an interesting engineering decision. Consider a two stage rocket where...

I'm trying to imgaine cheap space flight. I'd also like to see it sooner rather than later. Given this I believe we are limited to chemical rockets. What's...

How dependent are various satellite systems like GPS and Iridium on ground based support? I understand that these systems, as different as they are, both...

I've read that there are stages of rockets that have actually flown that had a high enough ISP and mass ratio they could have gone to orbit if they did not...

Can someone explain what a bieliptic transfer orbit is more efficient than a Hoffman transfer orbit when the ratio of initial to final orbits is large and...

My college rocketry club is trying to build a rocket that has to reach an altitude of 100K ft... and I was wondering what kind of engine would be better?...

Gas core nuclear thermal rockets have long been attractive in paper studies on the exploitation of space. Their high ISPs and high thrust have the potential...

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I have been looking for a rugged laptop that will work at 30,000ft without much luck. It seems that MIL-STD-810F only requires hardware to be tested at...

I had posted awhile back looking for a laptop and hard drive that could work at 30,000ft. I found a suitable hard drive at www.mt-optech.com.....just wanted...

I've been trying to find some gallery shots, schematics, anything really, on spacesuit designs in the internet. I've found words and text, replicas for sale,...

"Bruce Sterling Woodcock" wrote in message ... "Abrigon Gusiq"...

Was the Columbia accident attributable to any management / cultural problems within NASA? Do other large organisations have any lessons to learn from...

I was wondering if Huygens is actually going to land on Titan, or is simply going to crash into it, a la the Ranger series? And speaking of which, all of...