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SpaceX rocket prototype explodes in test flight
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1408/22falcon9r/#.U_iewmK9KSP This may begin to show what SpaceX is really made of. What can they do with a bit of a setback that is also public. Will they have to...
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OPINION – It’s Time to Send a Lander like Morpheus to the Moon
SaintsCadet: Morpheus is NASA’s little known but highly successful test program of a prototype lunar lander that could one day successfully land men, women, and cargo on the Moon. Morpheus was born...
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OPINION – Upcoming Flight of NASA’s Orion Spacecraft will be a Mission of...
AdminCadet: The following article by NASA’s Kennedy Space Center concerning the upcoming flight test of NASA’s Orion spacecraft is very good....
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SpaceX Failure Seen Slowing NASA Pick on Capsule Contract
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-25/spacex-failure-seen-slowing-nasa-pick-on-capsule-contract.html Flashgordon2014: I personally feel this failure alerted the SpaceX team not to become...
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Roscosmos Chief Discusses Plans for GLONASS Stations in China
Flashgordan2014: This is interesting news just out. I am wondering if the Russian sense that when the commercial companies come onboard to provide American astronaut launch services to the ISS, they...
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A Major Malfunction: The Fateful Launch Of Challenger
Flashgordan2014: I am a bit disturb that one of the headings states “Defective Design” referring to the O-rings design. I don’t think it was ever meant to operate at those cold temperatures that...
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Asteroid Initiatives LLC Intends to Dramatically Lower the Price of Asteroid...
Flashgordon2014: This is the first time I hear of this company. However, they are still in the raising capital phase. I wish them luck. A quote from their website: “Asteroid Initiatives will...
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Atomic Space Propulsion and Power
Flashgordon2014: Interesting article on evolution of propulsion. Clearly, we are going to need nuclear propulsion for deep space travel–solar is not going to cut it. I like the quote from Konstantin...
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NASA Space Shuttle Data Tapped To Combat Climate Change – OPINION
AdminCadet: First let me say that I am not a “believer” that human produced CO2 is the prime cause behind the climate change that our Earth is apparently experiencing today. Recent analysis results...
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Sierra Nevada Challenges NASA’s Space Taxi Deal With SpaceX, Boeing – OPINION...
AdminCadet: First, here is the story – taken from NBC New’s website. I recommend you glance at this first:...
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China’s fourth spaceport completed in boost for space program
FlashGordon2014: They are going to kick our butts!!! http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1618422/construction-mainlands-fourth-spaceport-finished Credit : Adrian Wan adrian.wan@scmp.com,South China...
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Philae “Mignon” – the Rosetta Lander Finds Organic Molecules on the Comet
FlashGordon–I am reminded of Carl Sagan’s quote:” We are made from star stuff.” I never realized that the theory of seeding earth from comets was old. From the article” That theory, panspermia, was...
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Strange thrust: the unproven science that could propel our children into space
From the article: For many decades, a fantasy among space enthusiasts has been to invent a device that produces a net thrust in one direction, without any need for reaction mass. Of course, a...
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NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is awake and cruising toward Pluto
FlashGordon2014: It’s alive!!! :) From the article: ” NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is awake and doing fine.The spacecraft bound for Pluto roused itself from its latest hibernation on Saturday at noon...
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Discussion of Climate Change Data
The following is a discussion by a Mr. Gene Grush, retired mechanical engineer, on the data that has been used to predict climate change. Global Temperature DiscussionFiled under: All Posts
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