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Book Review: Preludes to U.S. Space-Launch Vehicle Technology - Goddard Rockets to Minuteman III

A simple lesson in school physics provides the fundamental theory behind rockets. Simply put, by quickly pushing lots of exhaust out, the great mass of a rocket will ascend. Yet, as is often the case, putting theory into practise is anything but simple. J.D. Hunley in his book 'Preludes to U.S. Space-Launch Vehicle Technology - Goddard Rockets to Minuteman III' presents the many painful, exciting steps that made this technological marvel a practical mode of transport. The reader will find that rocket theory is fine, but it's through the engineering that people have really shown the height to which they can arise.

NASA to Test Plasma Rocket at International Space Station

Plasma rockets are the rockets of the future. They use the same stuff that makes up the sun and stars, and follow the same principles that scientists believe govern black holes. And now, NASA is ready to harness that energy for their own devices. They're planning to test a plasma rocket at the International Space Station.

Awesome Planet Rockets onto Leaderboard

Three-year-old filly Awesome Planet recorded her first stakes success on Saturday, winning the Listed Soliloquy Lodge Stakes (1400m) and notched up four valuable NZB Filly of the Year Series points.

Texas Sized Rockets To Service International Space Station

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'Songs for Tibet' Rockets to #1 Spot on iTunes Across the World

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Pakistani Politician's Family Home Escapes Rockets

Pakistan insisted Monday it had no deal allowing the U.S. to fire missiles at militant hideouts after an American newspaper quoted the new president as suggesting otherwise.

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Incredible Stunts: pictures by Jeffrey R Werner

Tracy Smith rockets over a 150-foot cardboard tunnel for the TV show That's Incredible! The fire team waited until Smith was approaching the tunnel at 80 mph before setting it ablaze. The photographer triggered a remote shutter on an unmanned camera before jumping from the top of a fire truck to clear the area as the temperature rose from 85 degrees to nearly 2000

NASA's Moon Rocket Looks Less Shaky

The nation's new moon rockets will be outfitted with shock absorbers to buffer astronauts from jackhammer-like vibrations during rocky rides into orbit.

NASA Proposes High-Tech Fix for Shaking Moon Rocket: Springs

Development of NASA's Ares Moon rockets continues apace, despite criticisms from an team designing an alternative. Now NASA engineers have announced how they're going to deal with a potentially serious vibration problem in the crew-launched Ares I: springs.

MI6 camera sold on eBay

The Nikon Coolpix camera was sold for just £17, and contained some bonus pictures of field agents and rockets.

An Astronaut's Crusade - An Interview with Dr. Edgar Mitchell, ScD

Ever since I was a child, I have been enamored by the space program. I read endlessly about astronauts, about rockets, the Saturn V, the moon landings, everything. I always envisioned my life as being part of this program that I loved so much. As is the case with most people, my life didn´t turn out quite like I thought it would. It turned out better! I am married to a wonderful woman that I might not have met had my life went where I thought it should.

Investment Refuels SpaceX

Aug. 6--Three days after its third launch failure, Space Exploration Technologies, the Hawthorne-based developer of low-cost experimental rockets, announced a $20 million cash infusion.

Space debris makes Hubble mission riskier

The October shuttle mission to overhaul the Hubble Space Telescope faces an increased risk of being struck by pieces of shattered satellites and rockets whipping around the Earth, NASA said Monday.

Space Weddings Are Not That Far Away

Eric Anderson, director and CEO of Space Adventures, is working on yet another ambitious project – to carry people into orbit and further with own personal rockets. To that end, he gave the order and the money to Russian engineers, who are to build him a Soyuz-class missile, capable of orbital delivery. The stipulated date for the completion of the work is not yet available.

China Claims Score In Weather Manipulation

hackingbear writes "Despite prior skepticism over effectiveness, China claims successful application of weather intervention to ensure a stunning Olympic opening ceremony, according to a report by the official Xinhua News Agency: 'We fired a total of 1,104 rain dispersal rockets from 21 sites in the city between 4 p.m. and 11:39 p.m. on Friday, which successfully intercepted a stretch of rain belt from moving towards the stadium,' said Guo Hu, head of the Beijing Municipal Meteorological Bureau (BMB). While there wasn't a single drop of rain over the National Stadium — also known as the Bird's Nest — during the opening ceremony from 8:00pm-12:00am on August 8, the weather services said that Baoding City of Hebei Province, to the southwest of Beijing, received the biggest rainfall of 100 millimeters Friday night, and Beijing's Fangshan

2008 Lunar Lander Challenge Teams Announced

anzha writes "The X Prize Foundation announced on Monday the competing teams for the 2008 Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge. This year there are ten teams competing for the two prizes. The XPF has a nice matchup utility to compare the different teams' rockets. The one downside to this year though is that the competition will not have an accompanying X Prize Cup. It will be webcast, though. Full disclosure: I am on a team."

Reflections of NASA at 50

NASA turns 50 years old today. On Oct. 1, 1958 the National Advisory Council on Aeronautics (NACA) officially became the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. "It was a relatively easy transition," said Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong in a rare public appearance commemorating NASA's anniversary. "We were already riding on rockets and research aircraft…We had merely to paint over the "C" in NACA and replace it with an "S" on our airplanes, our trucks and vans." But beyond those cosmetic changes, what has NASA meant to the average citizen, the US and the world?

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To the cosmos by nanotechnology

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Our title today refers to the 1960 article by Yuri Artsutanov in Pravda: "To the Cosmos by Electric Train" (pdf download, 132 KB). This article is the granddaddy of all 'space elevator' concepts and first to propose the idea that a cable-based transport system could become an alternative to rockets for launching people and payload into space.

LHC: A sure sign that Europe is the center of physics

The successful start-up of the Large Hadron Collider represents not just a huge victory for particle physics but also a victory for Europe. Once upon a time there was a brain drain from Europe to the U.S. – not only Albert Einstein in the 30s but also Wehrner von Braun in the 40s (�Once the rockets are up who cares where they come down? That’s not my department, says Wehrner von Braun�) and all the way through the 1970s, 80s and 90s.

Next Generation Magnetoplasma Rocket Could be Tested on Space Station

NASA Administrator Michael Griffin has announced his intentions to send an advanced spaceship propulsion prototype to the International Space Station for advanced testing. The Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (Vasimir) is currently in an experimental phase, but Griffin hopes that a scale model will be ready for one of the remaining Shuttle-ISS missions before 2010. The Vasimir concept bridges the gap between conventional (fuel hungry, high thrust) rockets and economical (fuel efficient, low-thrust) ion engines. Vasimir achieves this by using an ingenious method of ionizing and heating a neutral gas fuel…

NASA Chief Seeks Study of Shuttle

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (MCT) - NASA Administrator Michael Griffin has ordered his top officials to study how the agency could fly the space shuttle beyond its planned retirement in 2010, according to an internal e-mail obtained by The Orlando Sentinel.The decision signals what could be a huge change in NASA policy. Griffin steadfastly opposed extending the shuttle era beyond its 2010 retirement date, arguing it could kill astronauts and cripple the agency's fledgling Constellation program, a system of new rockets and capsules meant to replace the shuttle.But geopolitics and political pressure are undermining his position.The Russian invasion of neighboring Georgia has chilled relations between Washington and Moscow. The incursion has threatened NASA's carefully laid plans to rely on Russian spaceships to ferry astronauts to the internationa

NASA considers continuing shuttle use after 2010

Michael Griffin, administrator of the American space agency, NASA has ordered a study into considering the possibility of continuing the usage of the space shuttle, a space vehicle that takes astronauts to the International Space Station. The agency originally planned to retire all shuttles in 2010 after mission STS-134, but concerns over staff job losses that were created by the Space Shuttle program caused Griffin to order the study. The space crafts have been in use since 1981 and it's replacements, the Ares rockets, will not be in use until 2015 causing a 5 year gap where NASA will have no manned space flights, which is the reason the agency is considering extending usage for five more years, when the vehicles can be immediately replaced by their successors.

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