It appears there's a challenge to Virgin Galactic, being done by a Russian-Australian joint venture. Cute little spaceplane involved. From AFP's article on...

AP is reporting that a Russian satellite went missing after launch; other satellites on the same launcher doing okay: quote The Mozhayets-5 satellite,...

From http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050531/ap_on_sc/russian_rocket_launch "Russia Rocket Takes Off on 16-Day Mission" "MOSCOW - A Russian rocket carrying a...

.... hopefully this is the right group for this... NASA is launching a rocket next week and my family is going to be in Orlando... Is it worth going to see or...

I missed it if anybody brought this one up: from http://www.cmu.edu/cmnews/extra/050309_lorax.html or...

I've read a lot of people treating NASA's Return to Flight schedule as a sick joke at best. I'd like to remind everyone that someone once went to speak to...

I understand, from press reports, thatthere was to have been an update last Monday to the return to Flight timetable. Is that correct? and if so has anyone any...

Follow the directions below and in two weeks you'll have up to $20000.00 in your PayPal account. There is a very high rate of participation in the...

Hi, Today read an article on PhysOrg: http://www.physorg.com/news1767.html Quote: "A University of Michigan scientist is part of a European Space Agency team...

NASA has recently released a batch of email to and from the director of the office of Safety and Mission Assurance (Bryan O'Connor) related to the Columbia...

Dark matter, the "invisible" mass that scientists believe makes up a large part of the universe, can be explained as being mass that is at one end of a cooling...

OK, I've had a long day, I'm coming down with a cold, and I'm tired, but I've got one more post before I go to bed, and the day is over. I've been really...

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...

Everyone should go to http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/index.html if look at this. I have been helping with this of and one for about a year. Well anyone how...

Could the X-15 have exceeded the altitude performance of SpaceShipOne The X-15 flew to 354,200 ft, according...

Pat Flannery wrote: http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/2006/06/oconnor_and_sco.html#more They should have been flying three years ago, or retired it. ...

I'm looking to buy a new telescope in the range of about $1500 AUD (approx. 750 USD) Can someone give me a suggestion as to what to get? I've looked at the...

On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 18:42:51 -0500, in a place far, far away, Pat Flannery made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way as to...

Rand Simberg wrote: Unlike me, Andrew Case is probably too modest to toot his own horn, but he has a nice piece over at The...

rk wrote: Hi, In response to my earlier post we have received a number of very nice letters, including offers of support for the hosting, helping with...