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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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.

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

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...

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...

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

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...

TSA bans gels, liquids at aircraft museums http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s2i11241 ;-) Rusty

Website from Alliant Techsystems showing proposed shuttle derived launchers, titled, "Safe, Simple,...

Eighteen times a day? Sixteen? Close enough for geezertalk.... He trusted the rubes wouldn't know the difference. OK, six years later, where's all these...

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:...

NASA Encounters Problems With Ares 1 Launch Vehicle Design http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=1171 ".....have reported that the current design is...

I kept saying I didn't like what was going on in our country over the past few years; this man put into exact, precise, and beautiful words everything I...

Given that NASA has been flying T-38s as Astronaut proficency aircraft since the 1960s, and although they haven't seen as much stress on the airframe as USAF...

I have trouble with these subjects in school, and I am not the only one. But why do we need to know about how to find orgens in a frog or why did america...