Photo of JFK at that LC 34 Blockhouse

Bishop Ranch is NOT home to the headquarters of either AT&T or General Electric. It is however, the worldwide headquarters of Chevron Crop.

Whoa, I think I may have over trusted that fart.

Lets go Giants!

Dude, I understand how the spacecrafts were configured. I WORK FOR NASA. My point is simply that the "rocket" (even the portion of the rocket that was part of the orbiter... the three main engines) was NOT responsible for the failure of Columbia. The chart was about rockets and their success/failure rate, and I submit…

Right, I understand. The STS *was* the rocket. So is it fair to say that there were two STS failures? The STS rocket was not the root cause of the Columbia failure. A flawed orbiter thermal protection system was. If you're going to blame the rocket for a spacecraft design for a failure, then I guess the Saturn V was…

Can you really say the US STS (Shuttle) had 2 failures? Challenger, sure... the failure was in an O-Ring in a solid rocket booster. But Columbia? That was a failure of the spacecraft, not the rocket. Specifically the thermal protection system. I can only assume that the thinking was that the hole in Columbia's left…

Any discussion of the definition of "cloud" should probably reference the "official" definition as documented by NIST in SP800-145 (http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/n…).

"What an asshole." If you don't get the reference, go watch the movie Airplane again.

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman! ... What were the first two people so excited about?

You think that's loud... you should hear the Russian segment of the ISS... sounds like a lawn mower running... with the background of all the equipement in that lovely Soviet green.

Get your facts right. It's 24 people (all men). Three men have been to the moon twice (Gene Cernan on Apollo 10 and 17, Jim Lovell on Apollo 8 and 13 and John Young on Apollo 10 and 16).