Would it make more sense to start producing Saturn V's rather than using shuttle derived components? Why does NASA constantly have to reinvent the wheel? Wouldn't it make more sense to go with pro...
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Hey all, StarLab back in business (at least for the purposes of this thread) because the concept of the future of space exporation seems somewhat bleak what with the lack of mass public support or...
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Is returning people to the moon a waste of effort and money? In my opinion it would be better to send some more probes like the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to scope out the best sites on Mars for ...
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Has anyone heard this story about NASA hoping to land on asteroids in the future? I heard it on CNN yesterday and it sounded pretty interesting, considering it's purposes. The only thing that got ...
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Leonids are coming to town. Although the meteor shower won't be as spectacular as it was in 1998, or in 2002, it should still be worth watching.
The only down side is that the most intense part of...
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NASA has released the STS-116 Press Kit.
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Space Shuttle Discovery launches in December on its 33rd mission to deliver another truss segment of the International Sp...
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On 17 November, the joint ESA-NASA Ulysses mission will reach another important milestone on its epic out-of-ecliptic journey: the start of the third passage over the...
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The planned launch this week of a Boeing Delta 2 rocket and a military navigation satellite is being pushed back to Thursday to give technicians time to swap out faulty components on the second st...
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What would be the advantages of networking spaceprobes- specifically the ones in orbit around Mars? Teaming-up to save a damaged co-worker is one obvious adantage. What about relaying information ...
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this is rather disheartening
http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/20...ds_t.html#more
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Firstly let me apologise if this question has been posed before (maybe I just missed it) But I would like to get a feel for what most people's opinions are in this area.
Assuming for the momen...
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A spaceport in Culberson County, Texas, being built and financed by Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com, has launched a test rocket at 6:30 a.m. on Monday.
"There was a launch, a one- or tw...
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Here is new research which could help prove "Panspermia". It could explain why aliens always look so similar to us.
BBC News: Searching for 'our alien origins'
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Cumbria UK 13th November 2006 — The rocket stanchions at RAF Spadeadam, which were originally used for the Blue Streak space exploration programme, have stood silent for ov...
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I just watched the STS-1 launch and it was a great video - i had never seen it before, and it was a great sight. But i don't know if it was because it was slowrun of the launch to make it look gre...
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My father is keen on astronomy and is visiting me this Christmas.
What can I take him to see or do in and around Munich (incl. Alps) related to astronomy?
I have already been to the Munich observatory...
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We had a number fo topics on Klipper, Shenzhou, upcoming missions like Phobos-Grunt or China's lunar robot.
Some posters on BAUT suspected they would work together in a joint Sino-Russian mission....
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Antigravity wing is a thuster, wrking, as prpeller but no need to stand against the air to give effect.
More info:
http://www.online-translator.com/url...scx%26uid=3031
Hyper engine is ...
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Right then,
I have been waiting to see this for weeks. If I hadnt seen it with my own eyes I would never have believed it to be true but it is.
For those who don't know, there is a particular star...
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For weeks this has been driving me nuts: where can I go to calculate the performance of a launch vehicle? People always say, "Well, this launcher will give you 30 tons to LEO, change the engi...
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A Russian-built Proton Breeze M vehicle provided by International Launch Services (ILS) successfully launched a satellite today that will carry direct-to-home televis...
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Just watched "the Inside Story of Apollo 13"
On Channel 5 of UK TV.
Oh, wow!
Original film of the astronauts AND the ground crew. as it happened.
And all I saw was epi...
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Death of a Spacecraft: The Unknown Fate of Cassini
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The Cassini spacecraft is roughly halfway through its looping voyage of the Saturn system and is continuing to ...
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