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In an alternate world where the USA avoided the trauma of Vietnam and LBJ won a second term the Apollo moon and earth orbit programmes continued into the 70s as originally planned. Assuming that a similarly pro Apollo President had succeeded Johnson in 1973 and the US economy continued to...

Hi I really love this web site it has so much fantastic info on the hidden or forgotten space projects. Sadly, I don’t visit this website enough due to my projects. In 1989 I had my old boardgame Liftoff! Race to the Moon published; a simulation for four players with alternate proposed ways of...

Video regarding their forthcoming Archinaut One satellite due for launch in 2023. View: https://youtu.be/ir_SLjykvRE

This seems a bit of shame as he hardly seems to have been in the job five minutes. https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/space/nasa-chief-plans-step-aside-under-biden

As said in the title... all the robotic planetary missions launched in the 70's left a spare spacecraft on the ground (and later, at the NASM aerospace museum). There were good reasons for that - providing spares - ground testing - backup in case of failures (Mariner 8...) Soooo ...by 1978...

Both the aircraft & instruments are going in for routine servicing & update in Germany. The aircraft servicing is being done by Lufthansa Technik & instruments by the German SOFIA institute. https://www.dlr.de/content/en/articles/news/2020/04/20201001_sofia-returns-to-hamburg.html View...

See attached, from a declassified history of spysats. NASA and the military as of 1966 were quite unhappy at each others. - The military was encroaching on NASA manned spaceflight area, with MOL. - NASA was greatly bothering the military and spooks (NRO, USAF, CIA) by "hijacking" NRO...

Apologies if this is the wrong area for this, but I came across this model for sale on E Bay. It purports to be a NASA project for a Morphing wing, and was proposed in the early 2000s. Does anyone know any more about this project?

Scott Manley video: View: https://youtu.be/4V3VCt24tkE

I need help I have been unable to find any pictures of the rear view of the X-15 ejection seat cane anyone help with this? thanks

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20080015740.pdf Wasn't sure whether to put this here or over in Avionics and Military/Naval electronics.

In response to the global coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, NASA, ESA (European Space Agency), and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) have joined forces to use the collective scientific power of their Earth-observing satellite data to document planet-wide changes in the environment and...

ASTROBOTIC AWARDED $199.5 MILLION CONTRACT TO DELIVER NASA MOON ROVER JUNE 11, 2020 Astrobotic’s Griffin lunar lander to carry the NASA VIPER mission to the south pole of the Moon in 2023, as a precursor to a human landing Pittsburgh, PA – Astrobotic, the world’s leading lunar logistics service...

https://spacenews.com/nasa-planetary-defense-efforts-continue-during-pandemic/

Details of this proposed mission on the links below: Attached is a presentation detailing the mission from: https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/exoplanets2020/presentations/Rymer.pdf

The other day I was looking at some space proposals from the past and I stumbled upon this beautiful SSTO. I have only been able to find one source that gave some details about it and I'm very much hoping that you guys can help get more details/drawings on this proposal. "The ”Windjammer”...

https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Astronauts_grounded_in_Russias_Star_City_over_virus_999.html