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According to a press release from SpaceX, they are planning on launching their next flight of Falcon 1 on April 20, 2009: Hawthorne, CA (March 30, 2009) – Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) announces that the launch window for ATSB’s RazakSAT … Continue reading →

Video from MSNBC of the International Space Station flying around the Earth: Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy The International Space Station is the largest human-built object ever put into space. It is 240 … Continue reading →

Tonight, Friday March 6, 2009 at 7:49 PM (PDT), a Delta II 7925 is scheduled to launch a space telescope named after Johannes Kepler into solar orbit: it will swing around the sun once every 372.5 days. With a mass … Continue reading →

March 3, 2009 is square root day. CNET points out: Tuesday is Square Root Day, a rare holiday that occurs when the day and the month are both the square root of the last two digits of the current year. … Continue reading →

MSNBC.com reports: WASHINGTON – Ever wonder why sharks get several rows of teeth and people only get one? Some geneticists did, and their discovery could spur work to help adults one day grow new teeth when their own wear out. … Continue reading →

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Abraham Lincoln was born two hundred years ago today, on February 12, 1809. Lincoln was elected the sixteenth president of the United States on November 6, 1860. His opponents in the race were Stephen A. Douglas, a Democrat, John C. … Continue reading →

UNRWA is the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. Yaakov Kirschen, the cartoonist who does Dry Bones, an English language Israeli comic strip has a blog. He writes in his Dry Bones Blog: … Continue reading →

The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the … Continue reading →

Wired Magazine reports: The smallest exoplanet ever seen is less than twice the size of Earth, and orbits a star similar to our sun 390 light years away. Astronomers recently spotted this world, the most Earth-like planet yet discovered, with … Continue reading →