Nice shots including bright spots on it that are either newly exposed ice or ejection jets: http://www.onorbit.com/node/2980 Pat

I was browsing Wikipedia and noticed the article about NASA's Kuiper Airbourne Observatory. The article says that it came into service in 1974 and was...

Carrying Astrobotic Technology Inc.'s rover: http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=32670 Pat

On Feb 9, 5:30*am, Pat Flannery wrote: On 2/8/2011 8:59 PM, Brian Thorn wrote: On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 20:20:48 -0800, Pat...

My Family and I will be at the beach for the launch. We have always stayed at the Holiday Inn in Titusville. It was full for Friday night. We will be driving...

Life is great ain't it........... doc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BScrP-lW60E&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Am I missing something, or is SpaceX, whose openness in many ways is praiseworthy, simply not talking about any progress toward demonstrating the resuability...

In article , says... Let's fly the Shuttle till 2017! When you are...

It's by S. F., Singer. It's listed separately at the NASA technical report site, but there's no copy online. CASI does not offer it. It's from The Case for...

On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 20:13:42 -0500, David Spain wrote: And (IIRC) at a top speed of roughly 2.5 MPH one gets the impression its fuel...

In sci.space.history message , Sat, 5 Feb 2011 19:32:26, Joseph Nebus posted: Say, what fuel...

On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 19:30:09 -0800, Pat Flannery wrote: Right now the orbiters are showing their age; No, they're not. None of the...

keep the (wet) dream alive?

On Feb 5, 8:30*pm, Pat Flannery wrote: Right now the orbiters are showing their age; I assume the idea is to lose at least one more...

Astronomers have identified 1,235 candidate planets beyond the solar system, including 54 where life might have a chance of gaining a foothold. Extrapolating...

This is from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancelled_Apollo_missions: "In the closing days of the program, Apollo 17 LMP Harrison Schmitt aggressively lobbied...

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/02/russia-space-plane/ Doc

This is the best source of information so far: http://www.astronautix.com/craft/rept7969.htm No patents issued to Antonio Ferri, for this device. Any ideas? ...

It's by S. F., Singer. It's listed separately at the NASA technical report site, but there's no copy online. CASI does not offer it. It's AAS 81-231, but...

It seems to me that it would have been at least pleasant to have the extra space. The thing could be dumped at any time. I know it was used to test the...