It's good to celebrate Gordon Cooper's life achievements -- but I suggest we resist canonization of some of his loonier pursuits, follow the links below to...

Imagine if this could be done in the next 30 years, we'd have not only established a foothold at a single location like the Moon or Mars... but the whole solar...

Anonymous via the Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer wrote: The biggest insult to the world of astromomy has to be the popular Leo Gorceyesqe mispronunciation of...

NASA Said Wal-Mart Will Be On The Moon In 30 Years Are there historical native graves there they could disturb? That seems to be a requirement for any...

On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 09:45:24 -0600, "Jay Windley" wrote: | | Were all of them covered with this silvered mylar? The ones used for...

Here's a question which has been bothering me for awhile. Why did Tom Stafford command an Apollo mission before Neil Armstrong? In Gemini, the New-Nine...

Has anybody seen ANY discussion of this? JimO

NOX/HTPB (R45 Rubber) makes an interesting low-risk, low-cost ($0.05 per kg propellant cost) propellant combination - as used in SpaceShipOne, a hybrid rocket....

I've noticed that all of the Apollo splashdown locations were located between +/- 30 degrees in latitude, which happens to correspond to the moon's orbital...

Scott Hedrick wrote: Apparently you still haven't figured out that the topic is Melbourne, *Australia*. Melbourne, Australia does not have a space...

Russia Prepares Launch of New Space Shuttle The Moscow News (Color picture of "Kliper" under construction in...

Russia 's OPERATIONAL Starwars Defense System Someone has said: Keegan was right, far righter than you think!

Welcome to the Space Calendar! This Space Calendar covers space-related activities and anniversaries for the upcoming year. It is also available on the web...

As we all know, KSC as we know it today really started as a facility to launch missions to the Moon for the Apollo program. The VAB was designed to accommodate...

I vaguely recall that in the long era of the 1990s, there were a few Atlas II launches did not carry the small sustainer engines, but rather just the two...

With Bush, the first man will step on Mars before 2010 ! Bush will establish bases on all moons and planets in the solar system, solving all problems on...

When Apollo CM's reentered were they heading on an Easterly or Westerly ground track? TIA, Alan

Hey kids, Check out the picture on page 13 of this Shafer Aerospace document. http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/65850main_schafer.pdf Looks like the only thing...

Mission Rules were developed and used for manned spaceflight programs (e.g., Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, ASTP). I am aware of these "rules" being used on...

Saw this book on the new book display at a local bookstore today. Interleaved biographies of Dave Scott and Alexi Lenov which (going by the blurb) brings new...