"The Space Race was a proxy war against the Soviets." -Steven Colbert That's the most succinct analysis of the space race as I've ever seen broadcast. ...

Turner Classic Movies (United States feed) is running a day's worth of Moon-connected programming for the 20th of July. There's almost certainly something...

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18031-white-house-panel-sees-little-point-to-new-nasa-rocket.html Commercializing launchers via complete NASA...

What, no Vargas Girls?: http://www.aolnews.com/weird-news/article/tiny-art-museum-hidden-aboard-apollo-12-for-its-moon-landing/19516542 Pat

On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 22:29:32 -0800, Pat Flannery wrote: I think they're simply biting the bullet to put an end to the chicken vs....

http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts134/110314pad/ Pat

Brad Guth wrote: Most Usenet/newsgroup contributors use phony/bogus names, as I'm certain was the case with Pat. I'm not. But I'll admit I'll never...

As we all know, KSC as we know it today really started as a facility to launch missions to the Moon for the Apollo program. The VAB was designed to accommodate...

Here and there I've read books on spaceflight that make mention of the garbage that accumulates in a spacecraft, and what to do with it. If the flight is...

How hard will it be to safely convert them for tourists? Is the view nice? One day this will be a issue and I wonder what sort of exhibit they can put...

Hi, Guys .... I just had a brainstorm on one way to POSSIBLY safeguard Bush's "SEI2" from a Democratic administration: Do it under the auspices of the...

"Slickwater" wrote in message ... | | What the hell is the matter with...

OK, here's an Apollo what-if that's been discussed somewhat, but I figured I would try and state it clearly. What if Mike Collins had never suffered from a...

From somewhere, one of my friends got a story of the astronauts on the moon saying "I think we found an artifact" and the ground saying "switch to channel B"...

01:00 GMT (so about 49 minutes ago) - history was made - the third space faring nation has been born. I wasnt alive to see the other two nations kick it off -...

While reading Scott Carpenter's wonderful autobiography "For spacious skies" I noticed an interesting comment on page 312 of the hardbound copy. Commenting on...

In article , George Orwell wrote: On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 10:39:15 -0500, "Michael Gallagher"...

I'll never forget that night. We don't have cable TV so we don't get the NASA channel, but I checked Yahoo news about 7 p.m., I think. For those who were...

I'm looking for diagrams of high-power (hudreds of kW is good, multi-megawatt is better) *modern* space nuclear power reactors. Don't need to be high detail,...

Atlantic Ocean floor near Florida would be littered with about 125 Saturn-IB first stages, for one thing. And further downrange, about 125 launch escape...