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I got my first invitation to a Shuttle launch on July 1...unfortunately, I'll be in China! Maybe it will be delayed and I will still be able to make it!
1 FaverShareViewed: 4 TimesQuoted: The crew of Space Shuttle Atlantis will continue to test new equipment and procedures that increase the safety of Space Shuttles during the STS-121 mission to the International Space Station.
RK Launcher is an application that will allow the user to have a visually pleasing bar at the side of the screen that is used to quickly launch shortcuts.
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click to playLaunch video (5 minutes) of Charles' space flight. Interior showing Charles at the 4:20 mark.
Notice the "good luck" Black Cat dangling gently from the control panel as the crew accelerates into earth orbit.
1 FaverShareViewed: 35 TimesQuoted: Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and cosmonaut Oleg Kotov of the 15th International Space Station crew launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 1:31 p.m. EDT ...
1 FaverShareViewed: 6 TimesQuoted: rVibe will be launching the first legal p2p based music sharing platform next month.
Amazon has launched a product wiki site.
2 FaversShareViewed: 10 TimesQuoted: Amazon has just released a new Wikipedia clone, called Amapedia. It's described as "a community for sharing information about the products you like the most." So far Amapedia ...
click to playNASA footage of the launch of STS-116 - a night time shuttle launch. I like how the shuttle speed is 1,000 miles per hour, in what seems just a few short seconds after lift off.
Also great video at the end - there is a camera mounted to the external (hydrogen) fuel tank - it keeps running even after separation from the shuttle, so you get so see the shuttle above as the tank falls away back to earth.
Sad we missed this (we had to come back to Seattle on Sat morning) - but happy to see a successful launch.
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The moon shots that researchers and the public have gazed at over the years are mainly copies--or copies of copies--that don't match the originals in clarity, color, or contrast.
But at last, we all will get to see the originals. Arizona State University (ASU) in Tempe, the Lunar and Planetary Institute, and NASA are posting high-resolution scans of the 35,000 photos from the Apollo missions--from film that has been chilling out in a freezer in Houston, Texas, for more than 30 years.
The digitized images will enable researchers to draft more precise topographic maps of the lunar surface, for example, and to evaluate possible landing sites for future moon missions, says geologist Mark Robinson of ASU. The archive is just gearing up but will have several hundred images by next month.
Volume 317, Number 5840, Issue of 17 August 2007
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