I've just returned from a ten-day eleven-time-zone expedition to attend the Yasniy launch of Genesis-II. Details to follow.

Just found this yesterday. I wish I had seen it before my trip. "This page is prepared by NPO InterCoS with special courtesy of ISC Kosmotras, Federal Space...

Google maps hasn't been updated since the complex was finished. http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&ll=51.026254,59.846435 Only the hotel part of the...

Just got off the phone with the Export Control compliance guy from GD/NASA-KSC. There is *not* an ITAR issue with the stuff I've listed on my website He...

While I was out today, a voicemail came in from a General Dynamics Export Control Compliance guy at NASA/KSC. Wanted to ahve a chat with me about my web page...

At least this time it's got some modicum of imagination behind it. Yup, they were highly classified- so one day they just parked them outside, and nobody even...

Perhaps this sad time of the year should be marked dfor no new launches? In respect for the people who died and their loved ones left behind. No launches or...

1) If you are looking for the truth to soothe and please your self, just click on this link. 2) If you are looking for the secrt of the family happiness,...

PLEEEEZE!!!! enough already. there are now and there certainly were back in the old days; plenty of gay astronauts. We gay men cannot just prance around a...

Yesterday More than four thousands scientists, confirmed that relativity is not a scientific theory, and it is pastime laughingstock, while Einstein is...

....As the show gets to discussing Al Shepard's "Smilin' Al" vs "Icy Commander" mood shifts, they show a brief clip of Al facing the camera doing "serious"...

....As I posted on OMBlog, here's the results of my ColOMoscopy: The bad news? The anesthesiologist had one hell of a time knocking me out because they...

The Gemini hatch on Skylab: was it new, or a recycled item from a Gemini spacecraft? Related: what other equipment onboard Skylab was recycled,...

Whoa, now, here's a _very_ cool one: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/a410/ap7-S68-33750.jpg So, just how many of those regular old group shots...

I keep hearing that Betty Grissom campaigned to have the ill-fated AS204 re-designated "Apollo I" after the Fire; how does that explain Gus' mission patch...

Now, does this -- http://161.115.184.211/teague/apollo/68-HC-642.jpg -- look almost like a piece of concept art, or what? We've seen this a bunch, but I had...

http://www.spacemart.com/reports/Russia_In_Talks_To_Build_12_Spacecraft_For_NASA_And_ESA_999.html

Among the recent additions to the Black Cat Press Conquest of Space series (http://www.black-cat-press.com) is E.F. Northrup's remarkable "autobiography",...

The early '60's concept vehicle "Aldebaran" is mentioned from time to time... it was a fantastical Martin corporation notion for a giant amphibious...

Dear Friends, I have added the article "Yevpatoria - as the U.S. saw it in the 60's" to my web site. This article is based on declassified material provided...