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Perhaps there wouldn’t be so much concern for the launch by officials if it didn’t have such a, shall we say, unfinished, appearance: Bob Clark

Drs. Gil Levin and Patricia Straat were interviewed on The Space Show Saturday: https://www.thespaceshow.com/show/24-may-2019/broadcast-3320-dr.gil-levin-dr.-patricia-ann-straat https://www.thespaceshow.com/guest/dr.-gilbert-levin https://www.thespaceshow.com/guest/dr.-patricia-ann-straat...

ESA's Callisto reusability testbed as an *operational* TSTO and SSTO. https://exoscientist.blogspot.com/2019/05/esas-callisto-reusability-testbed-as.html Key questions that need to be answered for this to be feasible: 1.)What's average Isp with altitude compensation? 2.)Extensible nozzle...

The latest NASA budget suggests the Europa Clipper, an orbiter mission to the Jovian-system to study Europa, won’t fly on the SLS, but instead on commercial rockets: https://mobile.twitter.com/SpcPlcyOnline/status/1105131948903747584 However, instead of just an orbiter mission, by using...

NASA has just announced they want to send manned flights to the Moon within 5 years. The plan has been to use the SLS for such flights as a launcher comparable in payload to the Saturn V, ca. 130 tons to LEO. The problem is this would require the Exploration Upper Stage(EUS) for the SLS, a large...

Recently announced that India plans on launching a manned space mission in 2022: http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/India_to_send_three-person_crew_on_landmark_space_mission_999.html If ESA followed the approach to the Ariane 6 of using a second Vulcain on the Ariane 5 core, it could have a...

Elon on his twitter account said SpaceX now wants to move to metals for the tanks and structures of the BFR: https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2018/12/new-spacex-superheavy-starship-design-is-metal-tanks-and-structures.html He said the move was "counter-intuitive". Perhaps this is because of the...

Nice article here on the Princeton Rocketry Teams attempt at a suborbital space flight. The launch is scheduled for Sunday, May 27th at 10am Eastern Time, 8am Mountain, with Monday, May 28th as the backup date: Princeton Rocketry Club to Launch First Student Rocket into Outer Space. Wednesday...

Russia appears to have surrendered to SpaceX in the global launch market "The 4 percent stake isn’t worth the effort to try to elbow Musk and China aside." ERIC BERGER - 4/18/2018, 10:01 AM...

Boeing will give $2 million to anyone who can build a functional jetpack. Flying cars are so passé By Andrew J. Hawkins@andyjayhawk Sep 26, 2017, 12:30pm EDT https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/26/16362868/boeing-go-fly-prize-jetpack-competition Deadline for submitting a proposal outline is April...

There was a news report Friday that a woman with a transplanted uterus gave birth. There arises the question could a man with a transplanted uterus carry a pregnancy, with a Cesarean delivery? This fertility expert says yes: Womb ops mean that men 'could get pregnant tomorrow' as top surgeon...

The SpaceX BFR tanker can serve as a reusable SSTO by switching to a winged, horizontal landing mode: SpaceX BFR tanker as an SSTO. https://exoscientist.blogspot.com/2017/10/spacex-bfr-tanker-as-ssto.html Bob Clark ---------- Post added 10-25-17 at 11:52 AM ---------- Previous post was...

Earbuds can translate in real time. Business Insider UK on Twitter: "These amazing earbuds can translate foreign languages in real time, and could revolutionise travelling. https://t.co/lbr2Xwevwb" Bob Clark

Solid rocket motors that amateurs have been launching for years can be combined by staging and stacking to form a fully orbital rocket. Such orbital rockets are within the capabilities of most universities to construct. The result will be a radical reduction in launch costs to orbit for small...

Water ice found near Mars’s equator could entice colonists and life-seekers Find also poses climate puzzle SCIENCEMAG.ORG http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/08/water-ice-found-near-mars-s-equator-could-entice-colonists-and-life-seekers Very interesting finding. Daytime surface temperatures...

In the new CBS summer series, "Salvation", the EM-drive is introduced in the third episode as the propulsion system to be used to divert a large asteroid headed towards Earth: Salvation. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6170874/ The series features an Elon Musk-like character Darius Tanz who is...

Taken from us far too soon by cancer one of the bright young lights of mathematics and a great inspiration for young women scientists: Maryam Mirzakhani, only woman to take math's highest award, dies at 40. By Jason Hanna, CNN Updated 3:51 PM ET, Sat July 15, 2017...

Issues of Galaxy science fiction magazine from the 50's to the 70's have been put up online for free: Seminal sci-fi magazine 'Galaxy' is now free online The archive contains issues from 1950 - 1976 and includes early stories from heavy-hitting authors. Rob LeFebvre, @roblef 07.14.17 in...

NASA just announced a solar probe to travel quite close to the Sun, about 3.7 million miles from the solar surface: Nasa’s hotly anticipated solar mission renamed to honour astrophysicist Eugene Parker. Renamed the Parker Solar Probe to honour solar astrophysicist who predicted high speed solar...

Plasma propulsion could eventually become effective and useful for higher altitude aviation, airships and eventually space access. brian wang | May 20, 2017...