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Russia fetes 50th anniversary of first woman in space

Source: PhysOrg.com

Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, seen in Star City, outside Moscow, on June 7, 2013. Russia is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the maiden flight of the Soviet national hero who went by the c ...
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Intel Streaming Media Service Faces An Uphill Battle for Bandwidth

Source: Slashdot

binspam dupe notthebest offtopic slownewsday stale stupid fresh funny insightful interesting maybe descriptive Post I put up my thumb... and it blotted out the planet Earth. -- Neil Armstrong Trademarks property of their ...
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Straight up: BAE's vertical lift-off that never was

Source: The Telegraph

Design work in the 1960s was aimed at enabling airliners to go straight up and down, enabling them to use airports in densely populated cities, so providing more direct travel options and reducing runway space. But it was abandoned be ...
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Hasselblad Lunar goes on sale ... with an astronomical price tag

Source: Gizmag

The Hasselblad Lunar has gone on sale, which could be good news if you think the mirrorless camera market has been sadly lacking in wood, carbon fiber, and jeweled buttons. Billed as an "ultimate luxury mirror ...
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Gift to Orange Town Hall meant to inspire

Source: New Haven Register

ORANGE >> On July 20, 1969 when Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong were landing the “Eagle” lunar module on the moon, they were about 200,000 miles away from James O’Sullivan. By October of 1969, ...
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Book Review: ‘The Astronaut Wives Club,’ by Lily Koppel

Source: Dallas Morning News

On Jan. 27, 1967, Betty Grissom, Pat White and Martha Chaffee got the horrific news: Their astronaut husbands had been burned alive during a prelaunch test of their Apollo 1 mission. The tragedy haunted the widows, and for one, the pain would ...
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Exhibition review: Visions of the Universe - His dark materials, the photo album

Source: The Independent

As anyone who has ever camped out on a moor or a mountain will know, there is nothing like a clear night sky, free of the dimming effects of electric light, to make a person feel very, very small. Make that 100 night skies, such as those pictu ...
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Changing Pace: Sunsets and Stargazing

Source: Sail Blogs

On Thursday night Kathy and I spent some time stargazing at Crane Point here in Marathon. For a fair fee of six bucks, we got to walk a half mile mile or so out to the end of Crane point through some very natural Key's habitat. ...
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Man finds rock by river (it's a piece of space station Mir)

Source: CNET

A Massachusetts man discovers a strange-looking green rock on the banks of the Merrimack River. He later discovers there's a reason it looks a bit unusual. Green and his green rock. (Credit: CBS Boston Screenshot by Chris Matyszc ...
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Obama Being a good father isnt easy

Source: Albequerque Express

View Photo Associated Press/Evan Vucci - President Barack Obama holds a child as he mingles in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, June 14, 2013, where he hosted a Father's Day luncheon. Obama No comments yet for th ...
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