On 11 May 2004 23:32:38 GMT, rk wrote: A friend sent this one over, handy page. NASA History Series Publications...

A while back I got to wondering about the often-repeated trivia that the shuttle Enterprise, OV-101, would have been named Constitution had the Star Trek fans...

The piece I wrote last year on a pilot's eye view of flying the LM has wound up linked from an internet site -- he 12/2004: Flight Journal - "TO THE MOON...

One aspect of an STS launch is the roll program early in the ascent to bring the vehicle to the correct inclination for its eventual orbit. I can't recall...

NASA Is Borrowing Ideas From the Apollo http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=2311726 By JAY REEVES HUNTSVILLE, Ala. Aug 14, 2006 (AP)- Jim Snoddy...

We all know the timeline from Peenemunde via White Sands, Kapustin Yar etc. to Canaveral and Tyuratam, and then to space. If the German army of the early 1930s...

I have a small project with NASA to survey the ways that the volume or quantity of liquid in the tanks of space vehicles has been determined (or gauged) in...

The world's biggest RATO unit. This looks like something launched out of a silo or sub. http://www.usspacenews.com/ Pat

Is Apollo a cruel god? In some stories said Apollo is gentle but in other stories said Apollo is cruel. Is Apollo really a cruel god?

I mentioned this file in another thread, but I'm posting it in its own thread in case anyone missed it. NASA has posted an online solicitation for CEV models....

I'm wondering if the site http://epizodsspace.testpilot.ru/bibl/neizkosm/obl.html and its 'new' photographs of the Nedelin...

After discussing this at length with Steve Clemmons and with no followup by Scott of any empirical tests, I am inclined to believe this scenario,...

Anywhere I can find information on the Cassinni orbit? How will it avoid the rings? Or is it entirely outside the rings? -- Gene Seibel Space Ship One -...

Kris, I lost your email address during a computer reformatting. I apologize. Please contact me at either , or . Hope you've...

It's after 1:30 AM here in North Dakota, and the election's running neck-and-neck; but whoever wins this, it is my opinion that all of America has won this day...

For 40 years, it has been recorded that Valentina Tereshkova was selected as a cosmonaut in response to a letter she wrote to the Soviet authorities, after the...

....IIRC, someone here mentioned a long while back that they were in contact with Sir Arthur C. Clarke. Seems we've had reports of earthquake-originated tidal...

On 6 Jun 2005 13:50:06 -0700, " wrote: Art Deco...

I've been thinking about the odd history of Apollo 8 and what it actually represented in terms of breaking earth orbit and testing many of the systems that...

On Apollo, the spacecraft's temperature was controlled via the radiators on the SM...how was this handled on Mercury and Gemini? I don't see any obvious...