"A new comet has been discovered that is predicted to blaze incredibly brilliantly in the skies during late 2013. With a perihelion passage of less than two...

On 15/08/2014 3:33 PM, Michael Gallagher wrote: Sorry for going off topic again, but I don't know where else to go at this point. I've noticed more and...

NPR's Moira Gunn shows why it's better to be a rocket scientist when discussing math in a article about NASA's...

WHen they were sending rockets to crash into the moon in search of water, I was wondering why we don't get some thermophilic anaerobic microbes from...

You had better pray for that piece of **** Stick of yours, Doug. What the **** is wrong with these people? http://cosmic.lifeform.org/?p=258 -- The...

News descriptions speak of a wide, deep crater where the intact Dnepr booster, half its fuel still on board, hit the ground. A shepard nearby, who witnessed...

"OM" wrote in message ... ...Details are a...

Shades of "Worlds In Collision"; planets playing pinball with each other:...

Space Ring Could Shade Earth and Stop Global Warming: http://www.livescience.com/technology/050627_warming_solution.html Inject Sulfur into Air to Battle...

I'll set up a page for this at some point, but for now,...

"Danny SIchel" wrote in message ... Elroy Willis wrote: I'm wondering how many...

It looks like Lockheed Martin has simply taken its OSP design and dubbed it the "Crew Exploration...

There has been some talk of the U.S. doing a Mars flyby similar to the Apollo 8 mission. This could be done relatively quickly and prevent other nations (such...

The Technological Stagnation of Human Culture The below article is the synthesis of two articles on which I have been writing simultaneously. I put them...

As you all probably know by now, Armadillo fell a bit short of winning the Northrup Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge yesterday, despite some fairly heroic...

I've put up on Ebay a bunch (11) of "Space Frontiers" magazines from the 1980s... lots of drawings and data on past, current and future space programs; a first...

....Had this one forwarded to me this morning. Apparently the boys at U. of Colorado have been doing some rather nice image analysis. While Pioneer and...

60 Minutes will be doing a segment on space tourism tonight at 7pm EDT Pat

In the post copied below I discussed tying together nanotubes to get arbitrarily long nanotubes. If simply tied together, the longer nanotube would be weaker...

There has apparently been an explosion and ongoing structure and grassfire at the United Technologies Pratt and Whitney Space Propulsion Systems site in San...