Hide the Beano - NASA conducts methane engine tests

[Enoch]

Old news but good article from them = Mooo

On January 16, 2007, a dazzling blue flame blasted across the sands of the Mojave desert. In many respects, it looked like an ordinary rocket engine test, but this was different. While most NASA rockets are powered by liquid oxygen and hydrogen or solid chemicals, "we were testing a methane engine," says project manager Terri Tramel of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC).


http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2007/04may_methaneblast.htm?list208336

[Caver]

Old news but good article from them = Mooo
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2007/04may_methaneblast.htm?list208336

For joy,for joy! Mystery solved. That's where Old Betsy disappeared to. NASA has stuck her butt in a rocket. She was sweet, but that cow could make methane.:pound

[psalm84]

Maybe NASA is experimenting with methane for the purpose of refueling in space. Metane is a natural gas; and if there was a simple way of collecting it, a space craft could theoretically refuel while exploring distant planets(if these planets contained methane of course).

[jayna]

For joy,for joy! Mystery solved. That's where Old Betsy disappeared to. NASA has stuck her butt in a rocket. She was sweet, but that cow could make methane.:pound

:pound :pound

Bad boy!!! :lol2

[Enoch]

Maybe NASA is experimenting with methane for the purpose of refueling in space. Metane is a natural gas; and if there was a simple way of collecting it, a space craft could theoretically refuel while exploring distant planets(if these planets contained methane of course).

That would probably be the best guess. Would make refueling on most any nearby planet a sinch.

[felixthecat]

Professing to be wise ... we've become ridicuous fools.

Sad.