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John · John

The good news is that the Orion capsule completed preliminary design review (PDR) on August 31. The bad news is that we may have two-year schedule slip if they decide to go with alternative booster, i.e. other then Ares I. By contrast we this thing has been around since 2003. I believe contract award...

GoogleNaut · GoogleNaut

I would like to take just a moment to congratulate Mr. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin--as well as the 400,000 engineers, technicians, doctors, administrators, etc. for their 40th anniversay walk on the Moon. I was only five months old then, but the reality of Project Apollo has shaped my life in so m...

John · John

Since the revealed wisdom of the NASA in the first decade of the 21st century is that Apollo was the way to go...hence Orion (NASAs not the old AECs). I recently had an idea about what we should have done back in the 1970s concerning the Shuttle. Of course there is a lot of hindsight in the following. Sin...

NUKE ROCKY44 · NUKE ROCKY44

"The satellite reached lunar orbit June 23 and captured the Apollo sites between July 11 and 15. Though it had been expected that LRO would be able to resolve the remnants of the Apollo mission, these first images came before the spacecraft reached its final mapping orbit. Future LROC images fr...

Dusty · Dusty

I have just watched an interesting (and poignient) documentary about the Russian "Dogs in Space" programe. One of the things that struck me was how laid back the Dogs actually were. Despite being strapped to rockets and fired into space they seemed to treat it as a big game with no evidance...

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	Orion PDR (Preview) The good news is that the Orion capsule completed preliminary design review (PDR) on August 31. The bad news is that we may have two-year schedule slip if they decide to go with alternative booster, i.e. other then Ares I. By contrast we this thing has been around since 2003. I believe contract award...	John	2	502	Sep 6, 2009 by John
	40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing on the Moon (Preview) I would like to take just a moment to congratulate Mr. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin--as well as the 400,000 engineers, technicians, doctors, administrators, etc. for their 40th anniversay walk on the Moon. I was only five months old then, but the reality of Project Apollo has shaped my life in so m...	GoogleNaut	6	513	Jul 29, 2009 by NUKE ROCKY44
	Back to the Future, Past, or Something (Preview) Since the revealed wisdom of the NASA in the first decade of the 21st century is that Apollo was the way to go...hence Orion (NASAs not the old AECs). I recently had an idea about what we should have done back in the 1970s concerning the Shuttle. Of course there is a lot of hindsight in the following. Sin...	John	22	898	Jul 28, 2009 by GoogleNaut
	Oh...more proof Moon landings did occur (Preview) "The satellite reached lunar orbit June 23 and captured the Apollo sites between July 11 and 15. Though it had been expected that LRO would be able to resolve the remnants of the Apollo mission, these first images came before the spacecraft reached its final mapping orbit. Future LROC images fr...	NUKE ROCKY44	0	423	Jul 17, 2009 by NUKE ROCKY44
	Cats in space (Preview) I have just watched an interesting (and poignient) documentary about the Russian "Dogs in Space" programe. One of the things that struck me was how laid back the Dogs actually were. Despite being strapped to rockets and fired into space they seemed to treat it as a big game with no evidance...	Dusty	3	479	Jul 16, 2009 by Dusty
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