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MIAMI (Reuters) - The space shuttle Discovery has begun its crawl to a launch pad, after a crack in insulating foam brieflydelayed the significant step in NASA's two-year quest to return the shuttle fleet to flight. The roll-out, taking place at barely 1 mile per hour (1.6 kph) and expected to...

Story [/b]Do you think these prize amounts (piddly in comparison to the $10 million X Prize) will be sufficient to spur innovators?

Who is Bob Park - and why is an appeal to his authority regarded as a sufficient basis for decrying the 'Vision for Space Exploration'? Why is the 'Vision for Space Exploration' a 'faith-based' chimera but Hubble and Voyager aren't?

Firstly I'd like to excuse myself by saying I'm as much a physicist as a chicken farmer is a dinosaur trainer. I do teach it at a secondary level, and think I have a good grasp...but anything too advanced becomes as faith based as religion for me. That said, I was pondering this the other day...

http://www.blessitt.com/crossinspace/index.html Oy!

Hello all..I've searched this using the search button and on google and have found nothing. My question is.How can radio/light/other waves travel in space while some waves such as sound can not? Does it have to do with the fact they are electromagnetic waves? Why don't they need a meduim? How...

Space fighters The idea of space combat involving some sort of fighter craft is a staple of SciFi films. I don’t know the earliest depiction of such military craft, but most film and TV series have shown small, fighter-aircraft sized vessels which maneuver much like WWII prop aircraft and...

Can the reality of "space" be communicated on a purely intellectual level to someone who has never moved around before and is completely blind?? The circumstances of the questoin are pretty to understand, but what is the answer to this question? I urge anyone who is interested to put forth...

I found this on that website too. Many of those in charge of our human space flight activities have something of a "purist" view of space. In their view space is to be a perfect place -- a "cathedral" wherein perfect people do perfectly wonderful things. It is not to be host to ordinary people...

I don't think that the public will like the idea of only the very wealthey going into space. I don't like the Idea becuase I like to be included instead of being left out. The Idea of space tourism makes me angry because they are leaving everybody else out of it. This is probably why the public...

Hello, Does anyone know approximately when what we now refer to as 'Outer Space' (or just 'Space') was stopped commonly being called 'The Heavens'? I ask this because I have come across those who use old Biblical texts containing the word 'Space' to imply 'Outer Space', when I think it's far...

Space elevator prototype climbs at MIT This has to be one of the best ideas for getting to space for cheap. String up a 60,000 mile long ribbon made of carbon nanotubes and have a car drive up it to an orbiting asteroid space station.

I'm sure there are links to sites that give a more expert opinion, but the Don't Hit Me thread put me in in a mood to theorize, so I'm going to give it my best shot and let you guys do the digging and criticizing. I remember a scene fromt he movie Event Horizon where a man is suddenly exposed...

http://spaceweather.com/ Heads up folks! Catch it while you can! Edited to add cool map showing how far visibility extends: http://www.sec.noaa.gov/pmap/pmapN.html

Check it out, google.com (monday 4th)

http://www.para-normal.com/nuke/html/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2224

- avoids talking about space That's just weird.

I think that as time goes on, more and more people will lose interest in Space Tourism if they think that "Only" "The Rich" go up instead of the people that just earn thousands of dollars from their jobs. I think that the people who earn thousands of dollars will start to think that their access...

Should keep the " Face On Mars People " busy for a while, looking for the rest of her..:D

Now that the first commercial, private spaceship had flown, I'll bet Microsoft is going to fund one for publicity purposes. Get ready for "Blue Sky of Death" error messages.

I understand that scientists are estimating that we are about 5-10 years away from having the carbon nanotube composites necessary to build a space elevator. It seems that all news articles I read act as if building the elevator is a snap. (comparitavely - they all say that the carbon nanotube...

Assuming all goes well for SpaceShip One, we will have our first manned, private flight to the edge of space today. What implications does this have for future activity at or beyond the edge of space? Besides the obvious (and awesome) prospect of space tourism, there are such things as private...

If you were in deep space in your space craft and there were no nearby planets or suns etc, only stars many light years away, and you had to take a space walk, could you see your own hand in front of your face? Could you see your space ship if there were no lights anywhere on it? Is it...

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.

http://x-plane.com/SpaceCombat.html

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What exactly do we mean when we say "space?" Does it have some type of property? When we say all things exist within space, does that mean space actually has a material/physical property to it too or just the things that exist within it? Could space be considered "immaterial?" Also does time...

Okay, obviously there's all that flame and smoke and stuff, but how does that result in upwards motion? And what stop them falling over on the way up? 'for every action there is an equal and opposite action' what's being squirted out the back? does the heat count? Incidentally, for people who...

From the Fortean Times: http://www.forteantimes.com/articles/176_trots.shtml Every possible combination will happen. All I have to say is fooyah! :p