Andrew Yee wrote: ESA News http://www.esa.int 22 December 2005 Cluster helps to protect astronauts and satellites against 'killer electrons' ...

Note the article on Bush & NASA at http://my.core.com/~carhart/ While it is a humor site, this sadly smacks of the truth. Dave S, Chicago

What is the point of going to Mars or the Moon, besides having a look around? One reason I could think of was for archival purposes, in case some thing bad...

December the 17th, 2006 ????? wrote: Spirit arrived at King George Island on Sol 1022 (Dec. 17, 2006) after

Hi, I know nothing on this subject but have been recruited to help someone with homework - the question is - Has there ever been a rocket or cracft used...

Highlighting a year full of major space news, the Space Frontier Foundation, America's leading edge space organization, will be holding its 13th...

Note that the mass for the reworked Soyuz heat shield is no more than 300 kg. Updated details about the Lunar Express SM system are available...

There was a lot of talk a few years back about progress in using helium 3 to produce energy and having an abundance of it on the moon, but it being rare on...

I noticed the article about SpaceShipOne breaking the sound barrier and it got me to wondering how many of the X-Prize participants look like they will have...

Hi, I've made a couple of posts to sci.space.moderated over the last week and none of them have ever shown up in the group. Is it running completely on auto...

In preparing for establishing the proposed lunar colony, I think we need to rally support rally support from around the internet to set up root servers for the...

If someone were to build an SSTO using realistic assumptions about mass ratios and available power systems, how big a vehicle would be needed to send (say)...

Last night I heard an interview with Richard Hoagland in which he said that the face on Mars could not be a trick of light and shadow since it turned up in two...

Back in the the sixties there were three new spacecraft in 10 years. Now we might get one in the next ten years. Is the difference just caused by funding, or...

Let's say suddenly Earth isn't going to be inhabitable for much longer, maybe 4 or 5 years, and then it's no good. Could we evacuate Earth's population to...

Here's a hypothetical question. Assuming all the problems involved in getting there were solved, could a team of 250+ scientists plus crew, working in an...

jonathan wrote in message ... "It is this common association of microbes and iron ...

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...

On 17 Jun 2006 20:53:10 -0700, "Gene Ward Smith" wrote: Douglas Berry wrote: What part of "oxygen is common as dirt" is...

(off-topic news groups deleted from this response) Guth posted: I don't mean to be such a total pest about our unique moon but, even those moons of Mars...