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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 out        |   
   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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