A few months ago, at a library sale, I picked up a book about the Cape, published in 1968, titled " Liftoff! The Story Of America's Spaceport ", by L. B....

I'm not sure if this is the right group or not but I've been messing around with some back of the envelope figures (actually a little more exact but not much)...

I don't know why we bother with CGI sometimes, y'know? http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040928.html -- -Andrew Gray

It would seem that a Gemini lunar mission that used an LK lander would have been a great, cheap combination. I don't know if EOR or LOR would have been the...

I just finished watching the video "What happened on the Moon" on Google videos which seriously challenges whether the moon landing(s) really occurred. I found...

I am pleased (and somewhat amazed) to announce my first publication on space history. Appearing in the January issue of Griffith Observer (the glossy monthly...

Time to rebuild a pad for The Stick and SDV cargo carrier?: http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=1048

Hi Everyone, I used to look to this group for info on spaceflight related subjects etc yeah? Whats happened to this group?????? Its all just trash now...

Today, 19 September 2011, it is 15,401 days since the 'Eagle' landed on the Moon. The significance of that number is that the touchdown at Tranquility Base...

By me. At Popular Mechanics: http://www.popularmechanics.com/blogs/science_news/4213798.html

A Space Race There once was a great race to space, Two nations kept up a fine pace. Sputnik next to our Vanguard, The task seemed so very hard. Vostok was...

On May 10, 1879, making a deafening roar and giving off tremendous light, a meteor weighing 431 pounds arrived in Estherville, Iowa. It hit the ground so fast...

This is somewhat bigger than quantum physics, and suggesting as to what we're observing is not exactly what we might think it is. We might as well Consider...

A tour group just returned from Baykonur with some routine launch pad (and Nedelin disaster site) photographs, plus some great new view INSIDE the...

Is he http://www.aiaa-houston.org/

From over on Alex Pachenko's Russian collectable...

I have put together an article about Luna-3 based on Chertok's book, Russian papers I have found in my files and help from Don P Mitchell. The idea was to...

In 1958, the Air Force directed, STL constructed Able-1 lunar program was initiated. It's goal was to put a spacecraft in orbit around the moon for...

I just ran across http://www.csl.sri.com/users/neumann/illustrative.html - it's a collection of one-line summaries of cases that have appeared in the RISKS...

So I was idly flipping the channels and ran across yet another odd History Channel doscumentary - this one cobbling together a plan to deliver a Nazi dirty...