October 2009
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NASA's Ares I-X Rocket Completes Successful Flight...
NASA’s Ares I-X test rocket lifted off at 11:30 a.m. EDT Wednesday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a two-minute powered flight. The test flight lasted about six minutes from its launch from the newly-modified Launch Complex 39B until splash down of the rocket’s booster stage nearly 150 miles down range. “This is a huge step forward for NASA’s...
Ares 1-X launches at 11:30am EST. →
steelopus:
Watch it. This is a big deal.
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How inappropriate to call this planet earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.
– Sir Arthur C. Clarke (via crookedindifference)
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Apollo 11 Gallery →
(via cassidybellmor)
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NO ONE IS "BOMBING THE MOON" with "MISSILES"
Why must news agencies use such sensational language? I can see it now, scores of protesters outside NASA headquarters with signs reading “NO WAR ON MY MOON!” Lets be clear: The EMPTY upper stage Centaur rocket (used to launch the LRO and LCROSS missions) will crash into the moon. It is not “laden with bombs” as NBC would have you believe (WOW, who the HELL are they talking...
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What do you love most about the universe?
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