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Next SHUTTLE LAUNCH cleared for Dec. 7th - carl - 11/30/2006 5:09:36 PM
- re:Apollo 17 and Progress issues - Raoul - 11/30/2006 6:41:42 PM
  - "year-end rollover"? - Robert - 11/30/2006 9:25:15 PM
    - re: "year-end rollover"? - Marcus Massey - 12/1/2006 7:30:51 AM
      - re: "year-end rollover"? - Marcus Massey - 12/1/2006 7:43:55 AM

Griffin discusses UK role in US Moon program with UK minister - E.P. - 12/1/2006 5:08:34 AM
- I wouldn't hold your breath (n/t) (n/t) - Marcus Massey - 12/1/2006 6:06:50 AM

How are astronauts going to communicate from the South pole of the Moon? - Raoul - 11/30/2006 8:28:10 PM
- re: How are astronauts going to communicate from the South pole of the Moon? - gbaikie - 12/1/2006 1:44:45 AM
  - re: How are astronauts going to communicate from the South pole of the Moon? - Ken Murphy - 12/1/2006 3:39:07 AM

Details of how humans react to exposure to vacuum - phil - 11/30/2006 5:34:46 PM
- A C Clarke's "Take a Deep Breath" - Raoul - 11/30/2006 6:59:04 PM

China To Participate In Russian Flight To Phobos - Chris Vancil - 11/25/2006 3:06:33 AM
- China To Participate In Russian Flight To C-type asteroid trapped in orbit around Mars - E.P. - 11/26/2006 10:51:21 AM
  - re: BTW, try D or T-type asteroids...the C-type label is old Mariner 9 data which has been proven wrong. (n/t) - Chris Vancil - 11/29/2006 8:30:21 AM
  - re: That Phobos and Deimos are captured C-type asteroids is one of several theories...but it would seem not to explain their low density though. (n/t) - Chris Vancil - 11/27/2006 9:36:39 AM
    - They could be from Mars itself - LJK - 11/27/2006 4:42:42 PM
      - No they couldn't - E.P. - 11/27/2006 6:12:39 PM
        
        re: Isn't that a double negative? - Chris Vancil - 11/28/2006 7:51:27 AM
        
        No, it's not - E.P. - 11/28/2006 4:41:19 PM
        
        re: Hum sure... - Chris Vancil - 11/29/2006 7:55:32 AM
        
        perhaps this may answer your questions - E.P. - 11/29/2006 6:09:20 PM
        
        re: It actually doesn't answer any of my questions, Ed. (n/t) - Chris Vancil - 11/30/2006 10:53:53 AM
        
        perhaps here then - E.P. - 11/30/2006 5:13:03 PM
        
        Then maybe they at least have some pieces of Mars on them - ljk - 11/28/2006 4:25:28 AM
        
        re: Then maybe they at least have some pieces of Mars on them - Chris Vancil - 11/28/2006 7:54:27 AM
        
        re: Then maybe they at least have some pieces of Mars on them - E.P. - 11/28/2006 2:03:30 PM
        
        re: Then maybe they at least have some pieces of Mars on them - Chris Vancil - 11/29/2006 8:07:09 AM
        
        re: Then maybe they at least have some pieces of Mars on them - EP. - 11/29/2006 6:20:27 PM
        
        So do tthe Antartic and the Sahara desert - E.P. - 11/28/2006 6:39:04 AM
        
        Fortune favors the bold - LJK - 11/28/2006 2:27:35 PM
        
        re: Fortune favors the bold - E.P. - 11/28/2006 4:57:23 PM

Man and space are very incompatible - SDAI-Tech1 - 11/29/2006 12:48:35 PM
- Hawking thinks we must overcome the dependance on Earth. I agree. - Scott Evil - 11/30/2006 2:40:46 PM
- Man and a lot of places are very incompatible - TB - 11/29/2006 6:08:26 PM
  - Actually its shocking how compatible with space we are... - R.L. - 11/29/2006 8:30:04 PM
    - re: For a short time. (n/t) - Raoul - 11/29/2006 8:37:21 PM
- stating the obvious---all about cost to get out of gravity well - Sawyer - 11/29/2006 3:17:42 PM
  - The key will be to divide and multiply Gaia - A. Leftleaner - 11/29/2006 4:40:39 PM
    - Metaman - ljk - 11/29/2006 6:24:33 PM
      - If you look at the space station it really is a fragile single celled organism. - A. Leftleaner - 11/30/2006 2:37:21 PM
- radiation impact on ability to add - JimO - 11/29/2006 2:02:23 PM
  - That's the curse of the desert... - SDAI-Tech1 - 11/29/2006 6:29:23 PM
  - An Overview of the Space Radiation Environment - TB - 11/29/2006 6:13:31 PM
    - All the more reason to build robust spacecraft. - Lee - 11/30/2006 1:08:50 PM
  - Round-off error, no doubt. (n/t) - ER - 11/29/2006 2:25:27 PM
- It's not only hard and expensive, it's dangerous too. - ER - 11/29/2006 1:49:52 PM
  - re: Duration! - Raoul - 11/29/2006 6:57:06 PM

ISS yaw and acceleration in the x-y plane??? - Marcus Massey - 11/30/2006 2:29:23 PM

Telescopes - A 400-Year History - LJK - 11/30/2006 2:06:29 PM

Space Dogs - LJK - 11/30/2006 2:03:40 PM

First reports on astrophysics astronomy from Moon - E.P. - 11/29/2006 1:43:40 AM
- re: Key points... - Chris Vancil - 11/29/2006 6:17:09 AM
- The accepted comparison of lunar telescopes for astrophysics - E.P. - 11/29/2006 1:46:38 AM
  - re: And again I quote from the article... - Chris Vancil - 11/29/2006 8:15:04 AM
    - The key point: CAPS team not represented at meetting - E.P. - 11/29/2006 6:24:22 PM
      - Only to you Ed! Strangely enough to astrophysicists astrophysics is more important than NEO astrometrics. To them NEOs are just in the way! (n/t) - Chris Vancil - 11/29/2006 7:18:09 PM
        
        Not only to me, Chris! And there's nothing strange in the atrophysicists' behavior - E.P. - 11/29/2006 9:05:31 PM
        
        NEOs only listed as goal 8 of 9 goals - E.P. - 11/30/2006 8:45:26 AM
  - The AP report - E.P. - 11/29/2006 1:48:36 AM
    - The NYT report on the "misfits" - E.P. - 11/29/2006 1:58:21 AM

The Pelican nebula - Raoul - 11/30/2006 6:29:54 AM

Physics News Update 803 - ljk - 11/29/2006 6:15:04 PM

The Singularity at the Center of the Universe - SDF - 11/22/2006 3:34:34 PM
- re: The Great Wall! - Raoul - 11/22/2006 7:15:31 PM
- re: The Singularity at the Center of the Universe - ER - 11/22/2006 6:44:35 PM
  - re: The Singularity at the Center of the Universe - Michael Gmirkin - 11/23/2006 11:11:51 PM
    - re: The Singularity at the Center of the Universe - ER - 11/24/2006 1:23:46 PM
  - Boundaries - azstrummer - 11/22/2006 10:45:27 PM
    - The Edge of Eternity (catchy title, eh?) - ER - 11/22/2006 11:48:36 PM
      - re: The Edge of Eternity (catchy title, eh?) - LJK - 11/28/2006 6:59:42 PM
        
        Steady-State Cosmologies - ER - 11/28/2006 9:01:13 PM
- If you could travel at the speed of light, it would take no time at all! - Scott Evil - 11/22/2006 5:25:42 PM
  - On cosmic natural selection - No Smolin black hole production? - LJK - 11/28/2006 6:50:57 PM

Apollo By the Numbers - Adam - 11/28/2006 8:55:38 PM

China space station model - E.P. - 11/28/2006 5:22:10 PM

IceCube: Performance, Status, and Future - LJK - 11/27/2006 9:16:09 PM
- Neutrino astronomy with IceCube and AMANDA - LJK - 11/27/2006 9:30:19 PM
- Gravitational lensing by cosmic strings: what we learn from the CSL-1 case - LJK - 11/27/2006 9:24:55 PM
  - Astronomers Find First Ever Gamma Ray Clock - LJK - 11/28/2006 4:06:21 PM

Nasa looks at plan to blot out Sun to reverse global warming - Eric - 11/27/2006 1:38:54 AM
- Once done, how is it reversed? (n/t) - SDF - 11/28/2006 11:42:32 AM
- This has been brought up before - ER - 11/27/2006 8:58:48 PM
  - Should not be dismissed out of hand either - Sawyer - 11/28/2006 4:58:47 AM

Keith Cowing gets it wrong on ARES I - Buck Galaxy - 11/28/2006 7:22:56 AM

Manned spaceflights statistics - Raoul - 11/26/2006 5:09:56 PM
- How many astros in all? - carl - 11/27/2006 10:00:39 PM
  - re: How many astros in all? - Raoul - 11/28/2006 6:36:07 AM

Dynamical transport of asteroid fragments from the nu6 resonance - LJK - 11/21/2006 8:56:16 PM
- The Dynamics of an Asteroid (n/t) - J. Moriarity, PhD - 11/22/2006 7:03:42 PM
  - Protoplanet collisions from PSRD - LJK - 11/27/2006 10:13:38 PM

NASA Inspector General's work called "disgraceful" - pwokenyaw - 11/27/2006 9:31:58 PM

Models of alpha Centauri A and B with and without seismic constraints - LJK - 11/27/2006 9:18:47 PM

Cosmonaut career - Raoul - 11/27/2006 8:29:12 PM

A pillar of light - Raoul - 11/24/2006 6:24:46 AM
- Ring around the SUN - carl - 11/25/2006 4:27:21 PM
  - Ever see a moon-bow? - R.L. - 11/25/2006 7:53:50 PM
    - Describe it? - Yeti - 11/25/2006 9:10:25 PM
      - re: From Canada - Raoul - 11/25/2006 9:32:27 PM
        
        Yet... - Raoul - 11/26/2006 8:21:04 AM
        
        No... - R.L. - 11/26/2006 12:09:19 AM
        
        Moonbows - TB - 11/26/2006 9:52:41 PM
        
        correct... - R.L. - 11/27/2006 3:20:52 AM
        
        re: correct... - R.L. - 11/27/2006 3:37:16 PM
        
        Pictures - TB - 11/27/2006 5:17:32 PM
        
        nice - R.L. - 11/27/2006 7:09:41 PM
- re: A pillar of light - phil - 11/24/2006 3:09:00 PM
  - impressive - Eric - 11/25/2006 7:34:44 AM

India Mulls Unmanned Mission To Mars By 2013 - LJK - 11/27/2006 4:19:48 PM

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