There has been interest here in Convair's Kingfish design, which lost to Lockheed's A-12 Blackbird in the competition to build the successor to the U-2. I was...

wrote: fstops wrote: I'm not sure how speed-vs-altitude compares on the shuttle to the SR71, but the SR71 seats weren't...

Pat Flannery wrote: I know about GUSTO, but what was RAINBOW about? Was this the all plastic radar transparent design? RAINBOW has...

Pat Flannery wrote: Did you ever have a Col. McCauley helmet when you were young?: http://wherethetoysare.com/images/shelm.jpg I had...

Rusty wrote: How can you trust the word of an Agency that funds studies to give LSD to cats? Cats are crazy enough without any...

Pat Flannery wrote: wrote: OK, not quite space I know, but does anyone have pointer to good info on the J-58...

Rick Jones wrote: In sci.space.policy Bob Myers wrote: Pat Flannery wrote: It's full of useful...

I'd made some inquiries here about the PDP-3. I found a number of sources who'd worked with it and I was able to include about a page on it in my book which...

According to Kelly Johnson's A-12 Log, on 14 Sept 1960 they started work on a bomber version. This saw light as SP-229, "RB-12 Proposal" on 15 Dec 1960. I...

It should have been obvious from context, but I mis-typed below. I did *not* see Torick's autopsy report. That's not the sort of thing that I'd ever expect...

Hi Everyone, I read somewhere that the apollo 13 RTG was built to survive atmospheric re-entry. Is this true? What kind of shape would it be in now? Take...

The item in the photo at the link below was found impacted on the desert floor .... anyone seen anything like this before? Please excuse the shadow - the...

Can anyone tell me whatever happened to the Lunar Picture of the Day website? Since yesterday, everytime I go there, I keep...

Did the Martians or the Venusians ever visit the earth or were they not interested in us? Did archaelogists ever find Martian or Venusian technology, books...

This is a completely random question, but I thought this would be the place to ask: There is a TV documentary about the Apollo space program. The documentary...

Tank Fixer wrote: In article , on Mon, 13 Mar 2006 04:07:35 GMT, "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)"...

wrote: Sounds like a nice story, but where shall the German knowledge come from? Was there realy a BIG Nazi engine ever in...

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/02/23/astronaut.plan.ap/index.html Pat

They are going to resume their manned flights to the Moon using the new Kliper according to this-I know they never did manned lunar flights, but that isn't...

Don't a lot of robots-take-over-the-world stories start this way? Using a rapid prototyping machine to build.... more rapid...