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Will the ISS be visible from the UK	30 Oct 2006 18:58 GMT	9
Does anyone know if / when the ISS will be visible from the UK, specifically the North England, around the Bradford area? Once saw the ISS and shuttle years ago dart across the sky, shuttle was around 2 seconds behind the ISS.
Is this a narrow minded view of the proposed Hubble Repair Mission?	30 Oct 2006 17:54 GMT	6
Is this a narrow minded view of the proposed Hubble Repair Mission? OK true story. I was actually at the Air and Space Museum in D.C. watching on a big screen projected TV back in the early
Space Station sighting last night was awesome	27 Oct 2006 15:22 GMT	6
OK people I need some help. I have seen the ISS many times come over my house the last few years. Last night the below viewing was unlike I have never seen before. The ISS was HUGE and much brighter than before.
Want to write for a growing Space Tourism Site?	27 Oct 2006 05:48 GMT	1
Hello fellow enthusiasts! NewVoyageNews.com is looking for original articles/news about the Space Tourism Industry. Right now, the only reward I can offer you is the satisfaction of
"Most complex machine ever built"?	27 Oct 2006 02:21 GMT	24
[Please do not mail me a copy of your followup] Modern Marvels episode on the Space Shuttle opened with a claim that the space shuttle is the "most complex machine ever built". I don't deny that the shuttle is complex, but why does it rate this
shuttle launch images -- what airborne platform?	26 Oct 2006 13:39 GMT	9
See http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=3183 where they think it's from the space station. Whuch aircraft was it, anybody know? Thanks!
IPS PEA	25 Oct 2006 20:25 GMT	2
May have asked this before here, but here goes. I won in error at an Aurora Auction an apparently flown "IPS PEA". What the heck is it? Its made by Dornier and has all the flight labels etc. Someone told me it
First impressions: spaceboot.eu	23 Oct 2006 20:28 GMT	10
Just started a new site at http://www.spaceboot.eu and wanted to get some first impressions from you. The site is about how human spaceflight today is going nowhere (in my opinion) and will be about how maybe things can be done better.
Interviews with STS-116 / Expedition 14 / EXPLORATION SYSTEMS UPDATES	23 Oct 2006 20:19 GMT	1
Interviews with STS-116 Commander Mark Polansky http://www.space-multimedia.nl.eu.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1101 STS-116 Crew Training video http://www.space-multimedia.nl.eu.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1102
What is Ether Space?	23 Oct 2006 10:43 GMT	6
Can someone explain this to me? Thanks.
Why is the Shuttle flight duration so short??	23 Oct 2006 02:59 GMT	16
In a recent press release, ths statement was made: "Shuttle program was presumed to be capable of supporting weekly flights of up to 30 days duration" I can understand why the Shuttle never made the frequency but I have
YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED!!	20 Oct 2006 18:01 GMT	20
YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED!! http://www.submission.org/suras/app33.html God has sent a messenger to consolidate the messages delivered by all the prophets, purify
Debris Calibration	19 Oct 2006 04:48 GMT	8
Have they ever tried purposely dumping stuff off the shuttle, foam, RCC, block of frozen urine, whatever, so that they can calibrate the radar (or whatever they
Fitness for space flight?	16 Oct 2006 17:59 GMT	7
The latest issue of Air & Space/Smithsonian magazine (November 2006) has an article on "space tourists". They interview Greg Olsen and Mark Shuttleworth and basically the article follows them through the process they went to get approval to fly, and then highlights of their
Scientists: We must return to the moon	15 Oct 2006 04:21 GMT	3
POSTED: 11:49 a.m. EDT, September 19, 2006 WASHINGTON (AP) -- A panel of scientists strongly endorsed NASA's plans to return to the moon, saying in a report Tuesday that lunar exploration will open the way toward broader studies of the Earth and solar system.