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| The fun part, after all that "plummeting on fire through the atmosphere" stuff. (Image courtesy NASA.gov.) |
Space Station Sunday: Wins Of The One-Year Crew (Part One)
Good afternoon, space fans! It was a historic week for our friends in orbit...here's what was up!
Enjoy Your HD Cat Videos, Indonesia: SpaceX Sends Up Satellite Successfully
The big story in space this week was all about the man who fell to Earth, but it's worth noting that another important mission was headed UP. Namely, the SpaceX SES-9 payload of a communications satellite that will provide critical connectivity from its place in space...
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| {Space}X Gon' Give It To Ya! (Image courtesy Ken Kremer / universetoday.com.) |
Butter, But Better: New Device Mists Dairy Deliciousness At The Touch Of A Butter-Button
Kitchen gadgets have held fascination ever since the first caveman discovered that meat would taste better when twirled on a stick over the fire. Now, your kitchen of the future might feature robot bartenders, an automated chef, and even super-locally grown ingredients...but technology knows, what you really thirst for is the sweet, sweet spritz of freshly-liquified butter.
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| "And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him." -Revelations 6:8, and/or Paula Deen's cookbook. (Image courtesy crossfitenvy.com.) |
W.O.R.D. To The Copters, We Came To Race Them Proper
Drones! They're doing it all these days! Creating artistic light show / circuses, patrolling borders, airlifting contraceptives to oppressed women, and so much more. Now, our little flying friends have entered the next logical phase of what happens when humanity finds something agile, competitive and able to be technologically souped-up: we're racing them.
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| What's the Vegas betting line on little flying robots? The world may soon be enthralled. (Image courtesy zbrella.com.) |
Super News For Supersonic Flight: NASA's Working On A New Prize For The Skies
It's been an exciting week for aerospace! Yesterday, astronaut Scott Kelly and cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko returned from 340 days on the International Space Station, Virgin Galactic announced their new space plane just a few days previous, and on Monday, the world got a very special Leap Day present indeed: news that a new NASA-commissioned plane could, in a few years, be leaping wide oceans in a single, supersonic bound...
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| SHOTGUN. NASA's on a speculative supersonic spin... (Image courtesy NASA.gov.) |
Space Station Sunday: Three Cheers For The One-Year Crew!
Happy Sunday, space fans! It's been another outstanding week in orbit, and an exciting week ahead. Here's what was up!
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| The One-Year Crew enjoys a few more micro-gravity backflips before they're much more difficult on Earth. (Image courtesy NASA.gov.) |
The Opportunity Of Unity: Virgin Galactic Has A New Spaceplane On The Horizon
With the imminent return of NASA astronaut Scott Kelly from his near-yearlong post on the International Space Station, humanity has once again become publicly aware of how cool it is for people to exist in space. Now, entrepreneur Richard Branson is set to up the ante by sending up a new spaceship...and anyone who can pay the price can be a passenger.
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| SPACE. PLANE. YES. (Image courtesy arstechnica.com.) |
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