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 Welcome to sci.space.science and sci.space.tech! 
  
 These newsgroups were initially created and moderated by George Herbert 
 in 1993: 
  
   ftp://ftp.isc.org/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/sci/sci.space-reorg 
  
 He graciously passed the reins on to a team, who took over moderation 
 in      | 
 2009.  The current moderator 
 is:                                              | 
  
   Greg Moore                                        | 
  
 The moderator may also be reached via the following 
 addresses:                | 
  
    
  
    
  
 Charters: 
  
 sci.space.science 
  For discussing planetary and non-planetary space 
         science; including technical issues in planetary science, 
         planetary science space missions, techniques, goals, and 
         information about the planets themselves, space astronomy, 
         physics, space science in general, stellar science (ours and 
         others), etc.  Questions about space science, the planets, etc. 
         The primary emphasis is on doing science in or about space; 
         sci.astro remains the appropriate group for astronomy per se. 
  
 sci.space.tech 
         Technical issues and directly related policy issues on all 
         aspects of space flight; space launch vehicles present, past, 
         proposed, and propulsion (including poorly or undeveloped 
         methods such as ion, solar sail, laser-sail, antimatter, etc); 
         space station design, engineering, operations, and goals; and 
         any other types of spacecraft technology, engineering, 
         operations, and related topics.  Technical issues involved in 
         developing space resources, colonization of space, etc. 
         Technical, costing, and directly related policy decisions will 
         also be appropriate.  Questions about space technology, 
         operations, engineering, etc. are all appropriate, at any level. 
  
 Posts will initially be judged on content.  NO posters will initially be 
 blacklisted.  However, posters who continually post and repost rejected 
 material may find themselves eventually blacklisted. 
  
 For sci.space.science, any post should have a majority of the content be 
 of a scientific nature.  Articles that clearly cite references or avoid 
 unsubstantiated claims are more likely to pass moderation. 
  
 There is room for non-technical details, but if the moderators feel the 
 post is to far from technical we are likely to ask for a rewrite.  A 
 post that is obviously non-technical in nature or completely off-topic 
 will be rejected outright. 
  
 Posts that include cites, equations and proven science references are 
 preferred.  If you want to discuss esoteric subjects such as alien life, 
 non-mainstream scientific thought, please make sure to have recent and 
 citable references for the topic.  Pie in the sky posts will generally 
 be rejected. 
  
 Personal attacks generally will NOT be tolerated.  Quips at others 
 expense or ribbing may be tolerated as long as they are not the main 
 point of the post and are specific to the points being addressed. Topics 
 that we feel have run their course will generally be closed off until 
 new scientific information is posted.  Rehashing topics over and over 
 again will not be permitted. 
  
 Posts may be crossposted to up to 3 different newsgroups in the 
 sci.space.* hierarchy.  This will be automatically enforced by the 
 moderation software.  The post must be on-topic for all of the 
 newsgroups, however.  In general, and with few exceptions, an article 
 will not be on-topic for both sci.space.science and sci.space.tech at 
 the same time.  The moderators will make a decision at their discretion 
 if such crossposting is allowed. 
  
 In addition to being accessed via an NNTP server and client news reader, 
 sci.space.science and sci.space.tech may be accessed via Google Groups: 
  
   https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/sci.space.science 
  
   https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/sci.space.tech 
  
 As moderators we realize that we can probably please all the people some 
 of the time and some of the people all the time, but will never please 
 all the people all of the time.  So be it. 
  
 If you have issues with how we are moderating or an issue with why 
 specific posts were or were not approved, we will consider all 
 reasonably written emails to us.  Part of the reason for an odd-number 
 of moderators is so that if necessary, we can vote on any posts that 
 require that. 
  
 Please keep in mind the moderators are all volunteers and spending 
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 time, effort and to an extent money to make this happen. 
  
 Thank you 
  
 Your sci.space.science and sci.space.tech moderation team. 
  
 Greg Moore 
  
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