You could spend as much as 50,000 USA and still get disappointing results. Most houses do not have enough South facing roof area for 3500 watts, assuming you...

Yahoo/Associated Press report that 2 categories of CCs went unclaimed this weekend. Elevator climbers and cable builders both failed to reach the prize. see...

I have another column this week on why space stuff costs so much--because we expect it...

Direct hit on a comet: http://www.spaceflightnow.com/deepimpact/050704firstcloseups.html More photes expected shortly. Pat

I was reading NASA's return to flight summary. To fix the cause of foam shedding from the left bipod ramp, the summary says that it will be redesigned to...

Hi all at Spacebanter. New to this forum but as like you all I have an obsession with space. Although this didn't extend into my profession but I hope to use...

the mars shuttle is coming soon

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060713.html The above is the "Astronomy Picture of the Day" It's an animated .gif of the shuttle just as the solid...

Hello: I have just posted a site map of the astronomy/space-related files on my web site at http://www.spacearchive.info/site-map.htm. The map provides a...

40 teams listed at end of http://www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge/NQE_Press_Release.pdf "DARPA selected the semifinalists from a field of 118 entrants,...

rk wrote: On the other hand, since Henry is MIA somewhere, he would jump in and point out the story of the wrench left in...

Hi All: Last year I photographed the Delta II rocket/Gravity Probe B launch from Vandenberg AFB. The negatives were recently scanned and I have posted some of...

There's an interesting account at http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=1034 of a talk that Mike Griffin (NASA administrator) gave about...

"rk" wrote in message ... Here is the link to the JWST deployment video, from...

For years man has tried to figure out how to colonize space , economically. Real or fake flying saucers have been around for years and a few world gvt's...

Is is possible to make it into earth orbit using a sub-G thrusting rocket motor together with a hypersonic lifting body? Assuming it is possible Newtonically,...

In article , says... Burt Rutan, the man responsible for more innovations in modern ...

The semi-finals begins today at Fontana Speedway. I like this picture from the OSU team: http://oregonstate.edu/grandchallenge/drupal/files/stairs.jpg And...

Hi all, I've gone ahead and put together a web interface to the JPL raw imagery. Substantial improvements over the JPL site include that it notes when...

In few hours NASA's Messenger orbiter will be launched toward Mercury. And the new MESSENGER Mission group has just...