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Curiosity Rover

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Quote for the Day

Posted on December 22, 2011 by

“It is not a simple matter to differentiate unsuccessful from successful experiments. . . .[Most] work that is finally successful is the result of a series of unsuccessful tests in which difficulties are gradually eliminated.” –Robert H. Goddard Send to … Continue reading →

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Quote for the Day

Posted on December 13, 2011 by

The world has actually been wired together by digital communications systems for a century and a half. Nothing that has happened during that time compares in its impact to the first exchange of messages between Queen Victoria and President Buchanan … Continue reading →

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Quote for the Day

Posted on December 9, 2011 by

“If some of the current politicians had been around a few thousand years ago,” she’d said, “we never would have gotten out of Africa. Boats cost too much.” –Jack McDevitt, Cauldron Send to Kindle

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Quote for the Day

Posted on October 8, 2011 by

Any strategy that involves crossing a valley—accepting short-term losses to reach a higher hill in the distance—will soon be brought to a halt by the demands of a system that celebrates short-term gains and tolerates stagnation, but condemns anything else … Continue reading →

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SpaceX Has Plans

Posted on September 29, 2011 by

SpaceX has plans to make their Falcon 9 entirely reusable. For more information, visit SpaceX Send to Kindle

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Faster Than Light?

Posted on September 22, 2011 by

According to news reports, for instance MSNBC.com, the physicists at CERN have discovered neutrinos traveling slightly faster than the speed of light. They’ve run the test fifteen thousand times trying to find some mistake in their measurements and thus far, … Continue reading →

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New Proposed Space Launch System

Posted on September 16, 2011 by

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Why Send People?

Posted on August 17, 2011 by

I get puzzled by many things. One question that I’ve never really quite fathomed goes like this. Given the success of the unmanned space probes, such as the twin rovers on Mars, or Cassini and Huygens at Saturn and Titan, … Continue reading →

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A Million Miles a Day

Posted on August 13, 2011 by

Voyager 1 left Earth aboard a Titan III rocket on a bright summer day in September, 1977. It reached its first destination, Jupiter in 1979, then visited Saturn in 1980 before heading out of the solar system. Currently traveling nearly … Continue reading →

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