Too much SRB thrust imbalance can lead to disaster on ascent, as it did with Challenger. Similarly, record (or near record) SRB gimbaling on ascent...

Your favorite barking dog wrote: "... the specific roll angles are not ever enumerated specifically ..." Attaboy, Fido.

http://tinyurl.com/8d8m9 Because the members were presidential appointees, they had to meet the same rigorous background checks any other appointee faces....

At Edwards AFB on July 4, 1982, after the fourth space shuttle landing, President Reagan declared the shuttle "operational." Despite twenty more successful...

From what I've read about Lockheed's main (external) propellant tank mods, they are significant enough to warrant a Wet Countdown Demonstration Test (WCDT)...

http://tinyurl.com/9ts2x "America's credibility, its conscience and soul, stand at a crossroad. George Bush should be thoroughly investigated by a...

According to the McNeil-Lehrer Report last night, Bush's approval rating of 42% (at this point into a second term) is the lowest of any President except Nixon....

wrote: wrote: Either (as Kutyna's own Air Force observed) the flared rocket exited the fireball and rolled...

It seems to me that today, more than ever before, someone should ask here that we remember both the men and women and the families of our three lost space...

Peter Harding wrote: What this place needs is a shuttle launch! Never fear, another Bush is he "I had a dream," uh, a nucular vision, actually -- while...

Scott Hedrick wrote: wrote in message ... You are the first person I...

http://www.usspacenews.com/rumbelings.html begin quoted material The ET Saga Several years ago (in the 90's) the EPA and a past...

Hello. I am trying to identify what kind of rocket this is: http://public.iwork.com/document/?d=rocket_identification.key&a=p1339670446 I am working on a...

Hi all, I'm searching for very good quality video of the moon landing and activity (flag salute, moon walking) for the Apollo mission. I' found only low-res...

**** Post for FREE via your newsreader at post.usenet.com **** Guys, I don't know how I missed the Nigerian cosmonaut story: see? Told you...

I have just been told by GB Judica Cordiglia that their massive book "This the world will never know" has been chosen for publication by a major italian...

A brief passage from the book "This the world will never know" by the Judica Cordiglia brothers. The book (in Italian) has just been published in Italy by...

I just received a copy of an italian article that reports that in a recent interview to Komsomolskaya Pravda, Valentina Tershkova revealed some new facts...

A special program dedicated to the Judica-Cordiglia brothers will air in Italy on the History Channel on May 18. The program was produced for the History...

Or your brain after the lobotomy.... (maybe it's the same thing...) Gio "edo" wrote in...