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Russia 's OPERATIONAL Starwars Defense System Someone has said: Keegan was right, far righter than you think!

Russia Prepares Launch of New Space Shuttle The Moscow News (Color picture of "Kliper" under construction in...

Scott Hedrick wrote: Apparently you still haven't figured out that the topic is Melbourne, *Australia*. Melbourne, Australia does not have a space...

I've noticed that all of the Apollo splashdown locations were located between +/- 30 degrees in latitude, which happens to correspond to the moon's orbital...

NOX/HTPB (R45 Rubber) makes an interesting low-risk, low-cost ($0.05 per kg propellant cost) propellant combination - as used in SpaceShipOne, a hybrid rocket....

Has anybody seen ANY discussion of this? JimO

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...

On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 09:45:24 -0600, "Jay Windley" wrote: | | Were all of them covered with this silvered mylar? The ones used for...

NASA Said Wal-Mart Will Be On The Moon In 30 Years Are there historical native graves there they could disturb? That seems to be a requirement for any...

Anonymous via the Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer wrote: The biggest insult to the world of astromomy has to be the popular Leo Gorceyesqe mispronunciation of...

Imagine if this could be done in the next 30 years, we'd have not only established a foothold at a single location like the Moon or Mars... but the whole solar...

It's good to celebrate Gordon Cooper's life achievements -- but I suggest we resist canonization of some of his loonier pursuits, follow the links below to...

From: "Alan Erskine" Message-ID: Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 08:52:33...

Big Bertha Thing retrenchment Cosmic Ray Series Possible Real World System Constructs http://web.onetel.com/~tonylance/retrench.html Access page to 600K Zip...

Back in I guess about '67, McD-D built a mockup of the Big G Gemini that could carry a baseball team into space. The mockup had windows built into the sides to...

All of the PDF's in http://ntrs.nasa.gov/ are fully available again after a two week hiatus. I've just spent a glorious couple of hours downloading more of...

Watch the cross-posts guys - trolls abound everywhere! :) "Mike Combs" wrote in message...

Okay, somebody explain to me what the hell this is all...

While looking through the NASA NTRS archive I found this document showing an early concept for Apollo that used an inflatable airlock for spacewalks: "Apollo,...