There's a picture of the just-launched ROCSAT-2 at http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/86101/1/.html Presumably the horizontal...

As you may know in light of the big bang paradigm's explanatory impotence many physicists claim, including Leonard Susskind of Stanford University and his...

Assuming the Moon/Mars/Beyond initiative actually gets into the hardware and flying stages, there is an important, basic set of decisions to be made. The...

so who messed up? Orbit glitch consumes propellant on new satellite Posted: Sun, May 16 11:52 AM ET (1552 GMT) A Japanese communications satellite...

The number of entrants who are actually participating in this race is quite astounding, in my opinion. Almost a dozen people are working on actual hardware,...

From http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=12607 "ONERA (French Aerospace Research Center) will develop a new radar system network aimed at space...

Purported Great Wall Image Turns Out to be River By Peter B. de Selding Space News Staff Writer, SPACE.com PARIS -- An embarrassed European Space Agency...

With all the challenges that face humans in space, what are the good reasons to want to explore in the first place. I could think of only a few. Microgravity...

Seems they're listening. Nothing in the title indicates "Black" or "African American" etc. -- Alan Erskine We can get people to the Moon in five years, not...

My attempts at searching on the subject have thus-far been cluttered to uselessness with UFO/nut-sites, so, in the spirit of the Lunar aluminum thread, I...

My name is Gary Stollman and I am the person who in August of 1987 crashed the live set of KNBC TV in downtown Burbank, California, and forced...

Who needs a time machine "information travels faster than time" Based on a on a papper I read,6 months ago on Optical Physics Information encoded in a laser...

After a suborbital rocket gets things started, all the energy/momentum for lifting people/cargo the rest of the way to the moon and then lowering them down...

See: "http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20040227-105754-2873r" Analysis: NASA studies new booster By Frank Sietzen United Press International Published...

I've been following the latest at Armadillo with some interest: John Carmack's switched from a multi-engine vehicle to a vehicle with one big engine controlled...

Troubled SJ United Technologies Plant Closing POSTED: 3:17 pm PDT May 14, 2004 SAN JOSE, Calif. -- A Pratt & Whitney Space Propulsion plant is shutting down...

So, how come the guys out in the desert can fly to 40 miles up, whereas NASA couldn't get the X-34 off the runway? I vaguely recalled that NASA spent over $100...

Private Rocket SpaceShipOne Makes Third Rocket-Powered...

Cause it to drop on Baghdad or where? To tempting, but had to say it. Mike EAC wrote: (bob haller) wrote in message...

"Gareth Slee" wrote: http://ic.arc.nasa.gov/projects/psa/ Yes, it's a real project at Ames.