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Imagine how much he is going to spend on gas alone.

Maybe an orbiter/lander combination like Viking. The moon is pretty close to Earth, so I would thing that checking atmospheric pressure should be easy.

You can download older versions of Orbiter here: http://www.orbithangar.com/orbiter.php

Maybe I missed something, but where does it say that the DIRECT launcher would be able to carry payloads like that to the ISS? The MPLM and CAM were specigically designed to be launched and attached to the ISS by a Space Shuttle. Re-designing them to be launched by DIRECT would probably be way...

We shall see what comes of this, but I am not going to hold my breath.

A mime.

According to Spaceflight Now, NROL-26 is due to launch sometime between 7 PM to 12 AM EST.

:rofl: Made me laugh!

Awesome work. Good to see that you are still working on the Space Shuttle Fleet.

Sounds like whoever wrote that has read Stephen Baxter's Titan a few too many times.

Richard Truly served for almost three years and Frederick Gregory served for about two months as acting administrator.

This one is still my favorite. Simple yet hilarious!

You could do what I did for my wallpaper. I used a photograph off the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal from Apollo 15. I just cropped and re-sized it.

No, I am just rambling.

I personally like a quote by Jeff Foxworthy: "Getting married to have sex is like buying a 747 to get free peanuts." Ironically, whenever I fly on a plane these days, all I get is free pretzels. D'oh!

"Do you expect me to die?" "No. I expect another galaxy to crash into us in a couple of million years, Mr. Bond."

That was not really the ISS per se. That plan was for Space Station Freedom, a planned U.S.-only space station during the 80s. Budget cuts among other things forced its cancellation before plans for it were eventually consolidated with the planned Russian Mir-2 Space Station.

Reminds of the End of Ze World movie.

I should have known that Billy Mays was up to something fishy: