What if a Apollo couldn't make TLI? Well it _did_ have those lunar mapping cameras aboard on the later flights, and those _could_ photograph Earth from...

I picked up Michael D'Antonio's new book about the 1957, and the beginning of the Space Race. He was fortunate to have interviewed James Van Allen for 2...

http://bigpondnews.com/articles/TopStories/2012/08/26/US_astronaut_Neil_Armstrong_dies_at_82_787882.html

I've sometimes been accused by people on the newsgroup of being too cynical about our space program and its political aims as presently constituted...get ready...

This guy knows more about that planet than even Brad Guth does...AND WRITES IN BIGGER LETTERS TOO. Note in particular the yellow highlighter effect to make...

http://booksforkidsblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/stocking-stuffer-its-hoot-its-scream.html

I though of him when I saw this new...

Project Apollo drew on foreign policy needs and a blank cheque budget to take step after groundbreaking step to put a man on the moon. What drove the...

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/06/the_high_frontier_redux.html#more now at 650 comments and counting. As there's no sci.space.alt. history,...

My next door neighbor is the college where Christa McAuliffe earned her teaching degree. Her death in Challenger hit this town personally. The college makes a...

I thought that, in writing THE FIRST SPACE RACE (Texas A&M University Press, 2004), we had nailed down every fact about the earliest satellites. Naturally, I...

A quick peek this AM at my fav DVD price comparison site ( dvdpricesearch.com ) shows that DeepDiscount.com is now offering the five disc From The Earth To...

I was rewatching History Channel's ``Sputnik Mania'', which I quite like for its ``Victory At Sea''-like habit of just showing old footage with nice long...

With the upcoming Cassini-Huygens SOI there's a question that pops up in my mind. Has the ever been a firing of a chemical rocket motor that lasted as long as...

......once again. In twenty or thirty years, if all goes as planned. Can't wait. "I am extremely uneasy about this budget," said U.S. House...

- there is a software problem and isro is calling for help desk outsourced to a 3rd world country. - a non-hindu hostile foreign power is jamming the...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Escape_Systems Gotta admit I had never seen anything about this. Talk about a ballsy way to orbit. -- Greg Moore

The new issue of QUEST has an article I pretty much dashed off at one sititng, describing the adventures of two neophyte space historians (myself and...

Rand Simberg started a thread in sci.space.policy "Working Hand In Glove" http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,111821,00.html He points out that gloves of...

In the bookstore I ran across a facilities-history book that I haven't noticed before, ``A History of The Kennedy Space Center'', by Lipartio and Butler,...