There’s nothing I’d rather see than a NASA built Orion spacecraft take astronauts beyond earth orbit. They could go to an asteroid, to Mars, wherever. But NASA would be breaking new...
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Private cargo ship to visit IS...
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Rockets blow up.
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End of the Shuttle, Foam and Nerves
I always thought the shuttle was a mistake. Too many parties made demands on NASA. So we got a deadly combo: crew and heavy lift vehicle combined—with virtually no crew safety systems. The Pentagon wanted this to launch big satellites and have a large stable manned spying platform. James Beggs, the NASA administrator back then, should have said no. But he gave them what they...
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Is the Russian moonship getting closer to its targ...
The Russians planned to win the race to moon with the Soyuz spacecraft. But they lost to the American Apollo. Now, Apollo is long gone and the Soyuz is the only operational vehicle designed to carry people to the moon. True, it’s not outfitted exactly right for the job. For example, the heat shield it uses is insufficient for a 24,000+ mph re-entry into our atmosphere. But,...
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Muse and music in space
Following last year’s announcement by Spandau Ballet, the essentially...
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Paul Calle, space artist
Some of the artists selected for the NASA Art Program in the 1960s went on to...
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4 Sale: Moonship & Dairy Queen
An ad in the Wall Street Journal caught my attention. Someone is selling a...
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Elon Musk and the SpaceX future
SpaceX is special. This is a company that will lead the future in space. Not...
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Life as we never knew it.
NASA announced yesterday that it had discovered life on earth. Yes, this might...
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NASA’s return to the moon prog...
Constellation, NASA’s planned successor to the retiring shuttle is dead....
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