A Space & astronomy forum. SpaceBanter.com

Go Back   Home » SpaceBanter.com forum » Space Science
Site Map Home Authors List Search Today's Posts Mark Forums Read Web Partners

Post New Thread
Threads in Forum : Policy Forum Tools Search this Forum Feed Icon
  Thread / Thread Starter Last Post Reverse Sort Order Replies Views
NASA vs. Navy Columbia report by Bill Clark
The U.S. Navy was quite ruthless in their comments about NASA in the recent Columbia crash investigation report. I would like to offer the following critique...
August 31st 03 07:38 PM
by Bill Clark Go to last post
0 936
Harvesting Luna (was: Harvesting Mars) by [email protected]
{{Date: 21 Aug 2003 00:36:13 GMT From: (Ron Baalke) Newsgroups: sci.space.news When CO2 is compressed to a pressure of 73 atm and...
August 31st 03 11:53 PM
by Tom Merkle Go to last post
8 946
Manned Space Flight and the Planet Killer by Al Jackson
There is one thing I have thought about lately. What if finally we observe (within the next 20 years) an Earth-killing asteroid that will definitely zonk us in...
(Multi-page thread 1 2 3)
September 1st 03 04:17 AM
by [email protected] Go to last post
21 1,729
NASA's future post Columbia by Blurrt
Everyone at the moment is considering what NASA should be doing post-columbia. With Mars at its closest approach in 60000 years, shining brightly overhead - is...
(Multi-page thread 1 2 3)
September 1st 03 06:00 AM
by Phil Fraering Go to last post
20 1,275
LA Times: Critic says Space shuttle is "Inherently Unsafe" by G EddieA95
Liquid hydrogen is so cold that, unlike any other fuel, its tanks must be insulated. Insulation can fall off, damaging the attached orbiter. If the...
September 1st 03 08:10 AM
by Joann Evans Go to last post
2 458
Past Perfect, Future Misleading by John Ordover
Manned spaceflight should be an national industry not a government program. Craig Fink Where's the revenue stream that would interest industry? The...
September 1st 03 08:25 PM
by Doug... Go to last post
5 584
OSP requirements by Bob Martin
I'm interested in seeing what you guys would come up with if you were writing the requirements for the OSP. Any...
(Multi-page thread 1 2 3)
September 1st 03 11:13 PM
by Dholmes Go to last post
25 1,214
Delta II Cost - $56.7 million by ed kyle
With today's (8/29/03) Boeing exemption exception announcement by the Air Force, we have an up to date data point for a Delta II/GPS launch. A Delta with nine...
September 2nd 03 12:44 AM
by ed kyle Go to last post
2 653
Delta IV Launch - Wow by ed kyle
Boeing may be in trouble with the Government, but it sure knows how to put on a show. Tonight's third Delta IV launch, the first during daylight, was waayy...
September 2nd 03 09:39 AM
by Mike Chan Go to last post
7 1,023
Jud Lovingood changes his mind by Greg Kuperberg
In article , ElleninLosAngeles wrote: "I believe the shuttle is inherently unsafe,"...
September 2nd 03 11:23 AM
by Kent Betts Go to last post
2 2,269
Station to be abandoned? by Jorge R. Frank
(Fogbottom) wrote in : WASHINGTON -- The White House has turned down a...
(Multi-page thread 1 2 3 ... Last Page)
September 3rd 03 02:55 AM
by stephen voss Go to last post
56 2,119
Spaceflight by 2020 by bitflip
Ok, a question for the fertile minds in this news group. What will space flight be like by 2020? My ideas: Shuttle until 2012-2015 OSP capsules for ACRV...
(Multi-page thread 1 2)
September 3rd 03 09:04 AM
by Christopher M. Jones Go to last post
15 1,101
Why do these sci.space.* groups attract the kooks? by Brett O'Callaghan
I've been reading usenet for years now, and these groups definitely have a much higher kook ratio. Any theories on why this is so? Byeeeee. -- Gadzooks -...
September 3rd 03 02:35 PM
by Ultimate Buu Go to last post
8 853
Space cities? by Christopher
When NASA first proposed a permanent space station they were going to have a simple design called a 'power tower' in that it was a cylinder shaped station with...
(Multi-page thread 1 2)
September 3rd 03 07:01 PM
by Mike Combs Go to last post
14 1,231
"Rolling reuseability" by ed kyle
"Bob Martin" wrote in message ... Instead of building a fleet of 3-4 reuseable vehicles and...
September 4th 03 04:18 AM
by Tom Merkle Go to last post
3 605
Ad astra per an interagency process designed to articulate... by Allen Thomson
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/shuttle-03zd.html In reply to senators' request for a new outline of NASA's objectives for the space program, O'Keefe replied:...
September 4th 03 05:15 PM
by Allen Thomson Go to last post
0 553
OT Stoopid politics stuff (Was Why space colonization never happened as envisioned by G EddieA95
There is a direct benefit from military expenditure. It's called freedom. Which you don't get in the US, which has the biggest military budget in the...
September 4th 03 06:51 PM
by Scott Lowther Go to last post
2 514
Why space colonization never happened as envisioned by gmw
Actually it all comes down to cost. It was possible for kooks of another era (puritans) to fund their own colonies. This is not yet possible in space...
September 5th 03 03:58 PM
by TKalbfus Go to last post
4 594
Limited re-use seems good. by Earl Colby Pottinger
Richard Schumacher : Better is the enemy of good enough. Holding out for the perfect space launch system is not going to bring...
September 6th 03 01:43 PM
by Earl Colby Pottinger Go to last post
0 721
NASA's budget? by jeff findley
(Christopher) writes: Does the $14 billion it gets go into research or does the lions share go into pay cheques, and its research...
September 6th 03 01:54 PM
by Christopher Go to last post
8 1,116
Post New Thread


Display Options
Showing threads 341 to 360 of 10416
Sorted By Sort Order
From The
Forum Tools Search this Forum
Search this Forum :

Advanced Search

New posts New posts More than 15 replies or 150 views Hot thread with new posts
No new posts No new posts More than 15 replies or 150 views Hot thread with no new posts
Closed Thread Thread is closed  
 
Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

vB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Forum Jump


All times are GMT +1. The time now is 07:02 PM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.6.4
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Copyright ©2004-2024 SpaceBanter.com.
The comments are property of their posters.