Space Station Threshold

A community driven jumping off point for reaching space
Knowledge Management and Collaboration Platform

Welcome

This is a free think tank site to help brainstorm how to colonize off Earth. Most subjects are welcome here; from the Joe Cell to anti-gravity to straight Newtonian/Einsteinian physics. Through open communication great things can happen.

External News:

There used to be external news sites listed here on the home page but it kept pushing this page around. You can now read an aggregation of the current happenings on the Roller page.

Make sure you hit http://stephen-hawkings.com/ if you are at all interested in space. I was very pleased Stephen finally got to ride the Vomit Comet.

Some more cool sites are http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/ and http://challenge.bfi.org/

Projects we are involved with:

Front Page News

Dust Accelerates Snow Melt in San Juan Mountains

10 hours, 33 minutes ago from NASA Earth Observatory to Aggregated News | 0 Comments | 3 Views

True-color images of the San Juan Mountains in southwestern Colorado show a dramatic difference in snow appearance between 2008 and 2009. In 2009, dust has colored the snow dull brown and accelerated snowmelt. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it!...
Find the Answer to This Week's WITU Challenge

11 hours, 1 minutes ago from Universe Today to Aggregated News | 0 Comments | 3 Views

The answer to this week's Where In The Universe challenge is now available back on the original post. Check it out! And happy 4th of July holiday weekend to everyone in the US! © nancy for Universe Today, 2009. | Permalink | No comment...

Filed under: Where In the Universe?
Weekend SkyWatcher's Forecast: July 3-5, 2009

14 hours, 2 minutes ago from Universe Today to Aggregated News | 0 Comments | 4 Views

Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! Are you ready for a Moon-filled weekend? Then let's have a look a some great lunar features as we race Mad Max to the "Megadome"! For some lucky viewers in Japan and Hawaii, there will be an occultation of...

Filed under: Astronomy, Observing
Military Seeks Common Ground with Scientists on Fireball Data Flap

17 hours, 48 minutes ago from SPACE.com to Aggregated News | 0 Comments | 3 Views

The Air Force Space Command is "circling the wagons" to close some loopholes in the dissemination of potentially sensitive information. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!...