Starship Asterisk*

I think you need to go on a holiday out of your rear end for a while.

Honestly, just wow...even when APOD posts a picture with planets in it your not happy..

Looks like we are back to normal viewing - there you go...justification for yesterdays APOD - it proves the sky isn't falling!

Amazed at some of the short sighted responses on here for people who are supposed to look beyond horizons. If ever you wanted proof about the astounding nature of the universe, just look and see what happens to the end product of supernovas dancing. To make an apple pie from scratch you first need t...

If anyone is interested the music is Freedom Fighters by Two Steps from Hell

NASA as an organisation is still productive but its manned program seems to be either defunct or no longer a priority. Probes are good but its manned missions that we need to fire up the imagination. Thats the technical/biological/psychological/chemical challenge - at least to me. I believe you are...

NASA as an organisation is still productive but its manned program seems to be either defunct or no longer a priority. Probes are good but its manned missions that we need to fire up the imagination. Thats the technical/biological/psychological/chemical challenge - at least to me. Its not just the s...

Sad day. Cant the US even spare one aircraft carrier to keep a single shuttle going? I'm not going to follow this flight as its just too sad to see one of the most amazing machines ever built become a museum piece - especially when its not even being replaced. Hopefully NASA will bounce back from be...

Are there *any* plans to restart the US manned space program? It seems to us over here that the USA is abandoning it in favour of letting private companies take all the risk and blame (and glory). I was born in the year of armstrong/aldrin - to be here 42 years later and seeing no further progress, ...

I remember when people used to applaud human achievement. Now its hand wringing over costs and risk. We'd still be living in caves if this attitude continues. Today is a very sad day. The Discovery on its final flight. Another stage of NASA's massive great leap backward. The ISS is testament to what...

Is it me or are the white and blue plumes kind of twirling around each other? Almost looks like they are corkscrewing around the tail. Might be just an artifact of the image processing but anyway...

This kind of image makes me sad that we will soon be back in the 1960's. Who would have dreamed that US astronauts would have to hitch a ride on soviet rockets because they cant get a person in orbit any more

Looks like a rubble pile held together by weak gravity..maybe the rate of spin has caused a differentiation between dust/rock sizes and densities.

Ah I thought I was logged in. I am now anyway.