Another drop test of the recovery system ended up the same way the first one did, with a smashed test capsule:...

This report says the White House preferred option beforehand was to kill Ares I. They just wanted an independent review panel to give sufficient justification...

Here's another good one for the old status quo gipper of remote Usenet censorship, and/or of robo-moderation that's oddly not getting the least bit opposed by...

You'd certainly never know by way of Usenet infomercial standards, but there's all sorts of new and improved science arriving about Venus, all of which further...

Hey if Apollo had continued the infrastructure to launch a skylab reboost mission would of still been around. Did the early end of apollo thus kill skylab as...

Did you know that Gagarin was ejected from the Vostok rather than landing in it? According to CBS News, that was only recently revealed. Pat

Okay, it's flags and footprints again, but this time they are robot footprints:...

I've been reading about how they planned a manned flight in the 1960s on the little Joe but scrubbed it because the g-load was too high. or was it because...

It's as though we're not being told the whole truth and nothing but the truth about much of anything these days. Talk about revising history, science and a...

On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 23:34:19 GMT, "Jim Oberg" wrote: Great view of camera drifting away -- about 6:27 PM...

What if our thoughts could be plumbed by a brain scanner and memories manipulated with the flip of a genetic switch? These science fiction– like scenarios...

They do have "diet chocolate" ya know. Atkins diet, low-carb candy bars, some of them are made with stuff like whole cream. some like atrkins brownies...

To put the fuss over the hazards of the golk ball stunt in proportion, what are the largest cases of jettison of materials from space stations --...

....I just received a spam for Viagra. From "Henry Spencer". Egads... OM --

When the colonists of Virginia depleted their cropland, they relocated westward. When prospectors found gold in the Rockies, they rushed to exploit it without...

The media likes this, and usually even has a story about how bland, uninspiring and non-controversial the political debates were. Yet, not one mention of...

I ask this. Which is safer? a shuttle or a man rated capsule like apollo on a non man rated booster like a delta? It would be interesting to take a...

Maaxx wrote in : Which is a non-sequitur, for only people have free will and are able to...

This could turn into a real headache, as it might be very hard to come up with a way to eliminate it: http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=1244 Pat

I have a question for the people discussing the origin of the Apollo I accident and I'd really appreciate an answer. I think the answer is basic to the...