Columbia Falls graduate sets sights on becoming an astronaut

Source: Daily Inter Lake

The sky isn’t the limit for 18-year-old Becky Griffith. The Columbia Falls High School senior has her sights set beyond Earth’s atmosphere and is confident a degree in aerospace engineering from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona, Fla., will ...
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Elon Musk On The Biggest Week Of His Life

Source: Forbes Blogs

I write about cars, fashion and luxury living What does success sound like? Think 1,800 SpaceX employees chanting your name after your personal rocket docks with the International Space Station. “We love you, El ...
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On The Edge Of A Milestone African-American Achievement

Source: Barking Moonbat Early Warning System

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Destination outer space: a family’s final farewell

Source: Deleware County News Network

The unthinkable happened in 2006 when Kathy and Pat Meehan’s son, Shawn, died at the age of 24 after a year-long battle with leukemia. Shattered by their loss, they were embraced by family and friends, including Kathy Meehan’s colleagues at P ...
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Memphis 'Fly Boys' Compete In National Rocketry Challenge

Source: The Huffington Post

HuffPost Social Reading The Atlantic : With bright pops and trailing screams, hand-built rockets fly toward the sun in graceful (occasionally precarious) arcs. High school students from across the country huddle together anxiously, waitin ...
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Meet the 'Fly Boys' of Memphis, the Future of American Education

Source: The Atlantic

Wesley Carter (center) and Darius Hooker (center-left) make final adjustments to their rocket before the launch while a younger teammate watches. (Brian Resnick) What two urban teenagers, bitten by the rocketry bug, can tell us about creating a new ge ...
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LOHAN sucks 27 inches

Source: The Register

The epic saga of our shed-built hypobaric chamber – the Rocketry Experimental High Altitude Barosimulator (REHAB) experiment – continues today with the news that we've just laid our hands on a proper vacuum pump which allows LO ...
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Biz to Go: Commercial space race gets crowded behind SpaceX

Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch

A privately built space capsule that's zipping its way to the International Space Station has also launched something else: A new for-profit space race. The capsule called Dragon was due to arrive near the space station for tests early ...
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NASA aims for human rendezvous at Mars in 2033

Source: Nature.com

It would be the most precious cargo since the Apollo astronauts returned Moon rocks to Earth. In 2033, humans would arrive in Mars orbit in order to pick up and return to Earth a canister containing the hopes and dreams of Mar ...
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