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The latest article on the CSS is by Scientific American "China Is Set to Launch First Module of Massive Space Station" ...

"China Orbiting 400 Satellites, Heading for 1,000 by 2030, US Space Command Chief Says" My estimate - it will be a few times bigger - they aim to...

The second article you posted has some details embedded within it (power point presentation). ...

Getting ready for Ingenuity’s second flight. 22April 2021 This time they will test the colour camera on Ingenuity, it seems. We haven’t seen...

I am extremely far from knowledgeable in this area but the extraction of oxygen from the Martian atmosphere does seem to be a pretty significant...

I guess it depends on the source but a lot of the protein is probably what is leftover after the stuff fit for human consumption has been used. I...

Research published in the peer-reviewed journal Geophysical Research Letters finds evidence of phosphine (and other molecules indicative of...

While the sun is on the main sequence it loses relatively little mass, from fusing hydrogen to helium and losing mass as light, and solar wind. It’s...

Sounds like a new toy for US Special Operations Command DoD: Man-Portable Starlink System ...

LOL, check the replay!!:D

Even worse time!!

The local weekly reports that my county has just had its third death, the first to actually occur in the county, and that cases are rising. Nuts. ...

Because the cats already ate all the toilet paper.

Hmm. The cupboard is still bare. And also bare in another store. I do NOTwant to have to tell the kitties they'll have to adjust to another brand....

This paragraph confuses me, particularly the last sentence The reason for my confusion is that first you say the over all the solar mass...

Wow! Amazon found my actual house this afternoon! In case anyone is wondering, this is delivery by Amazon itself, in vans with a smile on them, not...

All right we're done. Over 500 posts and we are just going around in circles. Lord Foul - you had your chance and now you are done. You...

Remind me, did we ever arrive a reason the prescribed path of the Apollo 11 curves sharply on a 2d side view? I did not see where that mystery was...

I remember my first cousin's name. Because she died of Covid-19 over a year ago. Sorry for the downer in this thread.

Refer to page 8 on your questions about what radiation checks were made by by the Apollo 11 astronauts....

Agreed. Isn’t it interesting how things change with more context? I’m also amused how LF completely ignores the peer reviewed article he linked...

There is nothing irritating at all - well maybe there is! The secondary radiation is obviously lower than the primary, much was known about...

That hill's getting tinier and tinier. Anyway, now that we're down to debating how many NASA scientists can dance on the head of a pin, there's...

What claim? They released data as they always do. Space exploration and data gathering evolves. Now we know that the GCRs cause 10% secondary...

Thanks for tracking that down. :) Grant Hutchison

Supposedly NASA had measured surface radioactivity during the Apollo mission so there is that little irritating speck of dust in the ointment.