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Russian Spacewalk by
The Big DP
Recently I happened to be flipping through channels and came across a press
conference on the NASA channel that was talking about the spacewalk to pull
the...
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Space tourism meets Willy Wonka? by
Pat Flannery
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/newshome/4796745
The Kistler RocketPlane XP will now have French Air Hostess aboard?
Could Oompa-Loompas make up the flight crew?...
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Deep Impact video of Earth and Moon by
Pat Flannery
Moon passing in front of Earth, as seen from 31 million miles away:
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=25996
The Moon doesn't look all that big when...
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Spacesuit design award protested by
Pat Flannery
Hamilton Sundstrand does not like the Texas-based Oceaneering
International Inc. getting the Constellation spacesuit...
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ISS funding and supply woes by
Pat Flannery
http://www.aviationnow.com/aw/generic/story_channel.jsp?channel=space&id=news/Funding071808.xml&headline=Funding%20Biggest%20ISS%20Obstacle
Pat
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Szondy's website by
Pat Flannery
I keep forgetting to send the "Future Space" section of David Szondy's
great website to the newsgroup (or what little remains of it anymore*):...
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Hidden Planet/moon mineralogy and shrinkage by
BradGuth
Why did some of our NASA teams of prestigious associate wizards
intentionally go out of their way to photoshop and publish this rather
nifty color saturation...
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Bye-bye monkeys, hello stiffs?! by
Pat Flannery
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=1296
My favorite is still the live black bears used to test the B-58's
ejection capsules.
Boy, I'd have liked to...
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Whoa! Columbia STS-1/2 images by
Joseph Nebus
I finally got to watching the final _When We Left Earth_
episode -- well, most of it, because I only realized ten minutes into
it that it was on and that's...
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Space Race 1931 style by
Pat Flannery
From Modern Mechanix:
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/07/17/daring-men-in-seven-nations-aim-to-harness-giant-rockets/
The rocket on the second page of the...
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WEHT Quentin by
Carlos The Jackass
In "October Sky," there was a kid named Quentin, an anti-social super-
genius, who also went to work for NASA. Does anybody know what his last
name was, and...
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Direct 2.0 space transportation system by
sferrin
http://www.launchcomplexmodels.com/Direct/index.htm
Comments? Is there a point? Will anybody who can even SEE NASA's
purse strings even see it or...
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Manned balloon rocket from 1934 by
Pat Flannery
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/07/13/balloon-rocket-to-soar-43-miles/
Interesting idea; rockets did get fired from balloons under Project...
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