Apparently, museums aren't snapping up NASA's offer of Shuttle orbiters at $42 million each, as the price just got dropped to $28.8 million each:...

Maybe the Saturn V blueprints should be given to China? Get 'em made under licence - why not, most other consumer goods are - even 'sensitive' ones. This way...

In article , quilty wrote: I heard (and don't ask me to identify the source...because...

Bye-bye six-crew Orion; hello four-crew Orion:...

being sold to the American People. What craziness, here we are at War in the Middle East and we are busy destroying weapons. Hummm, kind of makes me...

Anyone seen this yet?: http://www.aviationnow.com/avnow/news/channel_businessweekly_story.jsp?id=news/SSO11014.xml Sounds almost like the reemergence of the...

Forty years ago today in D.C. . Technology detected in the film still as good as gold.... but still probably 50 to 100 years off in the future.

Just a few days ago, after making a 50 meter drive across the plains of Merridani, Opportunity reached, and then surpassed the...

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/11jul_lroc.htm Abandoned Spaceships NASA Science News July 11, 2005 For the first time since the 1970s, a NASA...

James Oberg: The real significance of the ISS thruster test failure May 8 // The Space Review: http://www.thespacereview.com/article/619/1 Last month's...

Would you believe 12 light years. If our Oort Cloud radius is worth as great as 2 ly, and the Sirius Oort Cloud becomes worth 6 ly (each distorted by a...

earth orbit is around 17,000 MPH. The moon is smaller with less gravity. Does this change the speed much?

Which, amazingly and rarely enough, is actually on-topic for this newsgroup. I've been rereading Milt Thompson's "Flying Without Wings", about the lifting body...

One, two, three, hup!: "Here they come to save the day! Space Marines are on the way! To make the bad guys pay! Space Marines are on the way! They drop from...

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2008/12/ssme-ares-v-undergoes-evaluation-potential-switch/ The rubes continue to flail around while the clock runs out.

A few days back, workers accidentally bumped the ET for Atlantis and left a small scratch on it. They decided to fix this, but have noted water is now coming...

****************************************************************** Scientist: "I just measured this box with my ruler. It has one human-foot." CT: "You...

"Brad Guth" wrote in message ... | One specific question: SPACE RADIATION ? | | Others...

Hello all, I'm a longtime lurker and sometime contributor to sci.space.history, hoping that I can be excused for a bit of shameless self-promotion of...

Do you think we would be told? Or would the adminstration keep it a secret to prevent panic? Lets assume its a BIG one....