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I'm not sure if this is the right forum to ask this, but here goes anyways. I've tried searching various archives and NASA documents, but haven't been able to find anything pointing to how the administration went about deciding who would fly as pilot, right-seater, and CSM pilot on the Apollo...

Just a simple question about my Cyborg USB Gold joystick. Every time I reboot the system, the stick is no longer seen on the list of controllers. As a consequence, I have to unplug it (with the system on), plug it back in, wait until it's recognized, and then go to the "Game Controllers"...

I'm not sure if anyone has asked this before, but a curious thought occured to me as I was transiting the Jovian moons. Could it be possible, (and if so are there any known examples) for a planet which has a moon to have another moon orbiting the first one stabily? I can only guess that the...

I've been working with PC's for well over twenty years now, and this same question still boggles my mind after all this time. Many years ago, a friend of mine was installing a ISA card on his P1 (like I said a Looong time ago...), and in the rush of things he forgot to power-off the system...

I've been searching all over Google Video and YouTube for gunsight-camera or FLIR video of air-to-air and air-to-ground missions during Desert Storm, Desert Shield, and Iraqi Freedom. Thus far, I have had little success. Does anyone know of a decent repository of these kind of videos (any...

I watched an intriguing documentary tonight about the theory of gravity, and an interesting thought occurred to me. We've all seen the visualization of the gravity well formed by a planet; a grid which dips below it, forming a curve. I got to wondering, what about a planet with an extensive ring...

I was watching Apollo 13 (for the ten-thousandth time) last night, and a curiosity hit me. In the movie, and more than likely on the actual flight, after the ship had rounded the Moon and was headed back to Terra Firma, most of the systems were shut down in order to save power, including the...