Well, why not? It would have saved the cost of developing the RS-68, which from a performance point of view is a pretty iffy engine anyway. Having been...

Well, why not? It would have saved the cost of developing the RS-68, which from a performance point of view is a pretty iffy engine anyway. Having been...

I was thinking about NASA's Moon plan, and it occurs to me the heavy lifter's SRBs and first stage should be powerful enough to orbit a deaprture stage that...

After working hard for my money, the least I could do is to have some online fun. That's what motivates me to keep making money. I mean supporting welfare...

Astronautix.com (http://www.astronautix.com/craft/satkshop.htm) mentions a 1964 proposal by von Braun essentially to create a Skylab space station but keep the...

If the forward fuselage was stripped from the 51-L crew cabin at water impact as NASA claims, why wasn't the crew found immediately via "X marks the spot?" ...

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...

The four-panel Peanuts (1971 reruns) offers one answer ... up at http://www.peanuts.com/comics/peanuts/ for today, and as the 27 October strip for the next...

Japan lunar probe reaches orbit http://groups.google.com/group/sci.space.policy/browse_frm/thread/ba6e27556d88b326/003f35e7781e5cdb#003f35e7781e5cdb JAXA...

Why was it cold in Apollo 13? Was it in shade the whole time? Even if so, it contained three OTG's (organic thermal generators) which were converting space...

hello, world\n usually spacecraft and astronauts on EVA must solve the problem of getting rid of excess thermal energy. During Apollo 13 there was a time...

I was just watching the gemini DVD again. It said that an ejection from the capsule probably wouldn't have been survivable because of the speed. why didn't...

(You'll find the answer below) WHAT DO EXTRATERRESTRIALS WANT FROM US? (An Editorial by Ed Conrad) Well, for sure, they wouldn't want...

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...

pre ` Tuesday September 19, 2006 POLITICAL ESSAYS Whys And Wherefores - Part 2 ` ` BBC reports an "unidentified object" is floating next to the Atlantis...

What sort of scene would we have if ... John

After reading "Atlas: the ultimate weapon", "Stages to Saturn", "Apollo: the definitive sourcebook", and a lot of online stuff, including posts here, it's...

2004 at last! Approaching 02:30 on the East Coast of North America, and trying to reboot my brain after reading that last goddamn' Hallerb post about Jesus,...

Back to Marcus Lindroos again, this time at http://www.abo.fi/~mlindroo/SpaceLVs/Slides/sld036.htm ....which contains concept art and diagrams for a variety of...

....sometime in, say, the next hundred years. Let's just go with the "Aliens" timeline, for the sake of argument. Let's also assume we've developed comms...