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Well, looks like Obama has gotten the political word. Orion is back on the budget, but the Constellation boosters aren't. Instead, Orion will used as an escape pod for the ISS. Is this a win? I'm really wondering. This news story is obviously biased as the capsule prime is Martin Lockheed...

I was going to post this in the science section but figured there'd be little point. Iran unveils space center, launches rocket Hey! Get your own name(s)! Copycats.

Russian rocket deliveries to Iran started Putin isn't stupid, so why in the hell would he allow air defence rocket systems to be shipped to a country that is lining all their ducks up in a row to start the apocalypse? Because that is what Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is doing. Getting ready to start...

THis was all part of GW's plan. He wanted Korea to test those rockets, especially the long range rocket. Why? So he could finally unleash the Reagan Sattilite anti-missle death ray! It worked like a charm. Korea looks foolish cause the rocket failed, Bush proved to them he can knock them...

I have a question for someone who understands stuff about spacecraft reentry problems. We all know how this is done with heat shields and high speeds and decelerations etc. We also know about techniques called aerobraking where some satellites use the very thin uppermost atmosphere acting on...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/02/23/MNGN7BFH7N1.DTL&type=health The title is enough to rock ya but to learn that there is actually a "safe daily dose" of rocket fuel as determined by the NAS? Oh boy. Well, at least it gives the 'bottle feed' coalition new ammo against...

It just roared off the pad and flew into space, said private Rocket maker, in a quote that sounds like it should have come from The Onion. Good for them, although there was nobody aboard. It does sound perhaps a little tame compared to the things Burt Rutan's been getting up to.

This is just a silly random thought (like so many of mine)... Why do we say "it's not rocket science" to mean that something isn't complicated? Rocket science seems to be quite straightforward to me. Newton's laws give you the payload equation and orbital dynamics, and that's about all there...