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The end of satellite servicing - Raoul - 5/22/2009 5:34:38 PM
- Controversey & Diminished Orion Capabilities - phil - 5/22/2009 5:45:50 PM
  - re: Controversey & Diminished Orion Capabilities - Marsbug - 5/22/2009 7:08:27 PM
    - Westar 6 Palapa B2 - Raoul - 5/23/2009 1:13:57 AM
    - re: Controversey & Diminished Orion Capabilities - phil - 5/22/2009 7:16:18 PM
      - Phil in the article you link above.... - Marsbug - 5/22/2009 7:50:17 PM
        
        re: Phil in the article you link above.... - phil - 5/23/2009 12:02:44 AM
      - re: Controversey & Diminished Orion Capabilities - Marsbug - 5/22/2009 7:43:51 PM
        
        Maybe they can revive this idea from 1970 - Socrates II - 5/22/2009 8:47:19 PM
        
        Socrates: Check your msn '4' an email (n/t) - contact - 5/23/2009 3:28:49 PM

Shuttle final flight - Delbert - 5/23/2009 3:45:25 AM
- re: Shuttle final flight - Delbert - 5/23/2009 4:35:52 AM
  - STS 134 ? - Raoul - 5/23/2009 8:37:15 AM

Here's hoping Atlantis' wing holds up. - Bowser - 5/23/2009 2:32:11 AM

Mars Sample Return Planetary Protection Report Released - Socrates II - 5/17/2009 3:16:53 PM
- At last! Photographic Proof of Intelligent Life on Mars. - David F Mayer - 5/18/2009 12:08:14 PM
  - Is THAT Marvin the Martian? (n/t) - ER - 5/18/2009 1:39:12 PM
    - Certainly! (n/t) - David F Mayer - 5/20/2009 1:23:07 AM
      - Cold early Mars still friendly to life thanks to the brine? - Socrates II - 5/21/2009 1:54:35 PM
        
        Opportunity's "Drivers" Report Research from Mars Crater - Socrates II - 5/23/2009 2:30:44 AM

Past and future of 'New Space' - gbaikie - 5/22/2009 9:58:55 PM

Check out who's getting some stimulus money - TB - 5/22/2009 8:09:42 PM

Exactly 40 years ago, today!! - Raoul - 5/22/2009 4:54:36 PM
- Charlie Brown HUGGED SNOOPY - carl - 5/22/2009 6:04:44 PM

National Ignition Facility - "Man-made star to unlock cosmic secrets ." - Bowser - 5/22/2009 4:50:52 PM

NASA's budget since 1958 - Raoul - 5/21/2009 9:31:34 PM
- re: NASA's budget since 1958 - phil - 5/22/2009 2:40:21 PM
  - Around the time of the first Space Shuttle launch in 1981 - Socrates II - 5/22/2009 3:01:47 PM

ESA's new astronauts !! - Raoul - 5/20/2009 5:08:06 PM
- 3 pilots, 2 engineers and one scientist - Raoul - 5/22/2009 2:34:46 PM

Early Earth bombardment not so bad for first life forms? - Socrates II - 5/21/2009 2:01:04 PM

Goodbye, Hubble! - Raoul - 5/20/2009 7:05:34 PM
- WOW! Thanks, Raoul! (n/t) - Bowser - 5/21/2009 3:15:58 AM
- re: Goodbye, Hubble! - Thanks, Raoul! - Marcia - 5/21/2009 1:22:08 AM

Combing for alien planets among the stars with a laser - Socrates II - 5/8/2009 7:05:28 PM
- A Scientistâ€™s Guide to Finding Alien Life: Where, When, and in What Universe - Socrates II - 5/14/2009 1:14:45 PM
  - There may be lots of alien life, just not very smart life - Socrates II - 5/14/2009 1:57:52 PM
    - Scientists to Gather Messages to the Cosmos for â€˜Earth Speaksâ€™ Project - Socrates II - 5/17/2009 3:44:31 PM
      - Searching for exoplanets around Alpha Centauri - Socrates II - 5/20/2009 8:11:27 PM

SETI@home Celebrates 10th Anniversary - Socrates II - 5/20/2009 11:29:07 AM
- Only one year (2000) when my far less powerful PC needed to be constantly on for that purpose! (n/t) - Raoul - 5/20/2009 7:23:33 PM

M87 sized up by the VLT - Raoul - 5/20/2009 4:58:30 PM

How gravitational waves could generate radio signals - Socrates II - 5/20/2009 3:09:09 PM

An interesting "thing" in the 35 km wide Keeler gap around Saturn - Raoul - 5/16/2009 5:45:52 PM
- Two likely end-members - nick hoffman - 5/17/2009 4:52:52 AM
  - uhhh he said MEMBER (n/t) - lance - 5/19/2009 4:02:27 AM
  - re: Two likely end-members - ER - 5/17/2009 11:40:42 AM
    - An example of emergent order out of Chaos. - ER - 5/17/2009 2:43:57 PM
    - Try a FRACTAL avalanche... - nick hoffman - 5/17/2009 11:51:42 AM
- "Explanation"? - Robert - 5/16/2009 7:34:50 PM
- Finally! Justification for manned mission to Saturn! - ER - 5/16/2009 6:24:52 PM
  - Camera movement..? - Raoul - 5/16/2009 7:30:21 PM
- Um...are there three of them? (n/t) - TB - 5/16/2009 6:05:17 PM
  - Or is it emitting Whale sounds LOL! - REB - 5/18/2009 1:20:55 PM
  - re: Um...are there three of them? - Raoul - 5/16/2009 7:33:04 PM
    - "elongated thing" - Robert - 5/16/2009 7:37:29 PM
      - Ramalammadingdong, or, the Kirkwood Derby? - ER - 5/16/2009 9:53:59 PM
      - Saturn's worlds - Raoul - 5/16/2009 7:50:55 PM
        
        Why is the assumption that it is an actual cylinder? - Socrates II - 5/17/2009 4:04:49 PM
        
        Perhaps it's a dumbbell - podrock - 5/18/2009 3:00:08 AM
        
        We're just having fun with it. - TB - 5/17/2009 7:59:58 PM
        
        The wake waves are not blurred - Nick Hoffman - 5/18/2009 4:09:48 AM
        
        re: The wake waves ARE blurred - Nick Hoffman - 5/20/2009 3:22:29 AM
        
        re: The wake waves ARE blurred - TB - 5/20/2009 6:08:22 AM
        
        Tom, can you point to those later images? - Socrates II - 5/20/2009 1:21:44 PM
        
        If there really is something weird there... - TB - 5/19/2009 4:45:55 PM
        
        So perhaps we are seeing a moonlet coming apart? - Socrates II - 5/19/2009 6:16:48 PM
        
        True... but - Adam - 5/18/2009 7:51:34 AM
        
        Being inside the rings - Raoul - 5/17/2009 5:07:57 PM
        
        Good points, hemlock man. - ER - 5/17/2009 4:37:26 PM
        
        Yes I do - Socrates II - 5/17/2009 6:08:44 PM
        
        I think the guys on this thread have done a pretty good analysis - ER - 5/17/2009 6:35:41 PM
        
        Gravity and shape - Adam - 5/18/2009 3:43:39 AM
        
        "too coherent to be just a rubble pile-up" - ER - 5/18/2009 4:26:30 AM
        
        I share your fasination - Adam - 5/18/2009 7:50:24 AM
        
        Off the top of my head... - ER - 5/18/2009 11:31:53 AM
        
        Fair point... - Adam - 5/18/2009 11:56:08 AM
        
        All I can add... - ER - 5/18/2009 1:48:47 PM

HST Deploy video - Delbert - 5/19/2009 4:36:08 PM
- re: HST Deploy video low priority - Delbert - 5/19/2009 4:57:23 PM
  - You aren't the only one who isn't happy with NASA TV - Socrates II - 5/19/2009 6:21:42 PM
    - NASA TV needs to join up with Discovery, TLC, and Nat Geo. - Lee - 5/20/2009 3:46:26 AM
      - Even the Science Channel has gone downhill so soon - Socrates II - 5/20/2009 1:12:58 PM
    - Real science can be boring....It's not NASA's fault if things go slowly (n/t) - Raoul - 5/19/2009 8:28:28 PM

What the Augustine Committee Didn’t Know in 1990 - gbaikie - 5/15/2009 8:40:25 PM
- More importantly, how bad the impact hazard really is and CAPS (n/t) - E.P. - 5/18/2009 7:29:01 PM
- An Oasis - nick hoffman - 5/16/2009 3:51:22 AM
  - re: An Oasis - lance - 5/19/2009 4:08:49 AM
    - LOL (n/t) - gbaikie - 5/19/2009 9:16:29 AM
  - re: An Oasis - Ken Murphy - 5/17/2009 8:11:05 PM

Apollo 10, 40 years ago, may 18 - Raoul - 5/17/2009 4:55:13 PM
- But was AFRAID to ASK? - carl - 5/18/2009 6:33:39 PM
  - They swore on the Skylab repair mission too - Socrates II - 5/18/2009 6:54:16 PM
    - Swore like sailors? They WERE sailors! (n/t) - ER - 5/18/2009 9:02:54 PM

My challenge to NASA moon plans - Sawyer - 5/14/2009 12:24:38 PM
- re: My challenge to NASA moon plans - Marsbug - 5/14/2009 6:51:09 PM
  - ponderously slow space walks meticulously planned for years - Sawyer - 5/14/2009 9:11:01 PM
    - re: ponderously slow space walks meticulously planned for years - Marsbug - 5/15/2009 11:51:48 AM
    - When bulding a multi billion dollar installation.... - Marsbug - 5/15/2009 9:57:21 AM
      - Lot's of examples of teleoperation on earth, how much is constructued in robot factories now? - Sawyer - 5/15/2009 12:01:06 PM
        
        re: Lot's of examples of teleoperation on earth, how much is constructued in robot factories now? - gbaikie - 5/15/2009 4:29:10 PM
        
        Factory robots carry out.. - Marsbug - 5/15/2009 1:09:23 PM
        
        Robots are for exploring, humans are for colonizing - Socrates II - 5/15/2009 2:04:17 PM
        
        I thought I'd read something about this..... - Marsbug - 5/16/2009 2:57:14 PM
        
        What would the late Tim Mutch have thought about it? - Raoul - 5/16/2009 6:00:48 AM
        
        That robot named Dextre attached to the ISS - Socrates II - 5/15/2009 12:56:15 PM
        
        re: That robot named Dextre attached to the ISS - Marsbug - 5/15/2009 6:14:30 PM
- You're right, and you're wrong - E.P. - 5/14/2009 5:12:31 PM
- Space and the first celestial body outside of earth , for some nations, are more than just science goals (n/t) - Raoul - 5/14/2009 3:55:56 PM
  - Yes, and the Moon has practical purposes for them as well (n/t) - E.P. - 5/18/2009 7:02:53 PM

HST eva 3 going on! - Raoul - 5/16/2009 7:36:47 PM
- COS and ACS work !! - Raoul - 5/16/2009 8:52:47 PM
  - EVA 4 problems - Raoul - 5/17/2009 7:11:48 PM

Charlie Bolden - Raoul - 5/15/2009 5:29:57 AM
- Bolden says NASA say what?? - Socrates II - 5/16/2009 1:47:44 PM

HST repair - Raoul - 5/14/2009 7:49:38 PM
- "This is my Grandfather's axe" - nick hoffman - 5/16/2009 3:53:12 AM
  - Heart of Glass - ER - 5/16/2009 11:49:42 AM
    - re: Heart of Glass with a brand new device - Raoul - 5/16/2009 12:30:40 PM
  - "Fifth Elephant," right? (n/t) - TB - 5/16/2009 7:12:34 AM
- Astronauts successfully install a new camera in Hubble. - Bowser - 5/15/2009 6:19:06 AM
  - TOH.........This Old HUBBLE - carl - 5/15/2009 2:36:14 PM
- Old NASA Snake Logo - carl - 5/14/2009 8:59:28 PM
  - You-know-who used to go ballistic whenever he found one of the old logos. - alcaray - 5/15/2009 1:50:09 AM
- I'm on the Top of the World .... - Raoul - 5/14/2009 8:32:29 PM
  - While from Florida, frenchman Thierry Legault aimed at the Sun and... - Raoul - 5/14/2009 8:56:02 PM
    - And here: - RobVG - 5/16/2009 2:28:22 AM
    - "Mon Dieu! Mes yeux!" (n/t) - Thierry - 5/15/2009 6:54:27 PM

Herschel and Planck - Raoul - 5/14/2009 5:32:42 AM
- re: Herschel and Planck to space !! - Raoul - 5/14/2009 3:52:22 PM
  - The two satellites are separated and talking to Earth - Socrates II - 5/14/2009 4:28:46 PM
    - Herschel camera shows Planck receding - Socrates II - 5/15/2009 3:30:15 PM
      - re: Herschel camera shows Planck receding - Raoul - 5/16/2009 6:06:48 AM

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