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An obscure 1991 TV movie that was intended to launch a TV series about a lunar mining settlement. Apparently Walt Disney, ABC (US Network), RAI (Italian Network) and Lockheed all contributed to it. I think it might be like the settlements from Moon Zero Two, which I requested a while ago might...

In 2019 a Turkish film based on the career of WWII spy Elyesa Bazna (Codename: Cicero) who supplied the Germans with a lot of high grade intel they disregarded because they thought it was fake was released. About 48 and a half minutes into the film there's a night bombing scene that purports to...

I'd like to request someone look into doing addons, for the 1969 Hammer film 'Moon Zero Two', boasting a script part written by thriller writer Gavin Lyall, the film suffered from focus on quasi-comedy to the detriment of the action based storyline. The full film can be found on YouTube. It's...

https://www.bis-space.com/2019/07/18/22738/the-bis-lunar-spacesuit-national-space-centre

Exactly what it says in the title, the site allows you to view the southern hemisphere sky in the visible, radio, Infra-red, microwave, gamma and X-Ray spectrum's. http://gleamoscope.icrar.org/gleamoscope/trunk/src/

Is there a simple formula for determining the maximum/minimum dimensions of a payload shroud for any given payload?

...well wonder no longer, thanks to The Register, one of the more interesting technology websites around, learn what happens: *. When the tech service guy is drunk. *. When the company forgets to update the documentation. *. When the computer is in a really, really remote location. *. When the...

Here's something that might make for a fairly straightforward creation. In Tom Clancy's 1994 novel 'Debt of Honor' the Japanese H-II launch vehicle is not completely Japanese designed vehicle as it is in the real world. Rather it is a combination of two Japanese designed SRBs (Presumably...

The video linked to at the bottom of this post alerted me to something buried in the Apollo Handbooks, the final emergency procedure in the event of a failure of the ascent stage engine/pyrotechnics to fire. Remove, from it's location a special jumper cable (Termed an ED Adapter Cable), pliers...

Spotted this set of 'reviews' on another forum. Absolutely priceless... https://www.google.com/maps/place/Papoose+Lake+Beachfront+Resort+%26+Spa/@37.1080874,-115.886011,14467m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m7!3m6!1s0x80b807149e234491:0x6c9deac5e051694a!8m2!3d37.1193323!4d-115.8429337!9m1!1b1

I am starting planning for a fictional mission/landing scenario inspired by Barry Maltzberg's 'The Falling Astronauts'. This thread is where I will post my thoughts and if anyone wants to comment on them, I welcome them. The plot for that novel has the commander of an Apollo mission carrying...

Back when I was more active with NASSP I searched out NASA reports covering planned and simulated missions, to give possible ideas for addon scenarios, I was just looking over the Virtual AGC page and found one that was created in the 1970s as part of an ongoing effort to improve the AGC...

http://www.thespacereview.com/article/3723/1 I actually own a copy of this one and spent a little time with Orbiter and NASSP trying to figure out the launch inclination for this mission. As to my result, it is doeable and I was able to confirm that all the ground traces shown in the film...

https://au.news.yahoo.com/woman-dobs-drug-dealer-sold-sugar-instead-cocaine-023740782.html

'The Cape' was a failed American drama series built around the shuttle program. Lasting only one season, the series nevertheless touched on some plot ideas that could be mined for scenarios, especially the episode 'Buried in Peace' which has a shuttle rendezvousing with a failed 1960s era Soviet...

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/did-fisher-price-release-tiny-toker/

A thread to celebrate the influence 'Star Wars' (1977) had on book covers for unrelated sci-fi stories. The two covers attached to this post, both come from 1981 the year 'Empire Strikes Back' came out. These are for cheap newsstand/deli book rack paperbacks, one ('Starspinner') by an American...

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2018/03/bike-share-oversupply-in-china-huge-piles-of-abandoned-and-broken-bicycles/556268/ Some of the pictures are just plain surreal....

Three items from the past few years that should not have existed, but received sufficent money to be built via crowdfunding, often with the addition of Bluetooth and internet connectivity 1. Juicero https://liesandstartuppr.blogspot.com.au/2016/08/how-is-this-thing.html Teardown by some guy...

An interesting mid-60s Mars exploration proposal... http://spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com.au/2017/09/a-new-step-in-spaceflight-evolution-to.html