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    News Sputnik - 60 year anniversary

    Some good details in this video, including one I didn't know about Sputnik orbiting twice before being publicly acknowledged: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M-QinwmdKc
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    RIP Chris Cornell

    From Ravenous' link
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    News NASA FY 2018 Budget Blueprint

    "The Budget terminates four Earth science missions (PACE, OCO-3, DSCOVR Earth-viewing instruments, and CLARREO Pathfinder)" Re: DSCOVR, so they would actually stop using a climate satellite launched in 2015?! That seems ridiculous to me!
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    New here :cool:

    I think you're going to like it here! :)
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    Updates ExoMars News & Updates

    Looks like this was posted back in Feb and I found it hard to find the actual map, here's one I finally got: https://natgeoeducationblog.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/mars-ordnance-survey-map.jpg
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    Poll Browser performance testing

    Windows 7 Pro SP1 64bit CPU Intel Core i7-5600U @2.60GHz (office laptop) 16Gb RAM Chrome Version 50.0.2661.94 m Aligned Dhrystone Benchmark, Version 2.1 Calibrating... Primary run with nr=1485149... Done. Dhrystones per Second: 471176.713198 Dhrystone score: 268.171152 Dhrystone Benchmark...
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    Mercury Transit 9th May 2016

    This is happening now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOhDfylYvUQ
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    Launch News SpaceX Falcon 9 v1.2 with Dragon CRS-8 April 8 2016

    I had to view it on youtube - the embedded version wouldn't pan around (just start/pause).
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    Question Space station use beyond the stated date for deorbit

    Dug up the story possibly: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2007/11may_locad3/ Oddly, I couldn't find any further information on what's used these days, I assume something else since this page indicates LOCAD-PTS was only in use 2006-2009...
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    News RIP Donald E. Williams

    I wanted to find more info since I didn't know about this: http://www.americaspace.com/?p=15242
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    2015 Mid-Autumn Moon Festival Supermoon Total Eclipse

    It was poor viewing where I was for most of it, total cloud coverage :facepalm: But at the end I managed to snap a few photos, my first astrophotography ever so I can only imagine the lack of quality compared to what others got, but it was exciting none the less! No post processing besides...
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    2015 Mid-Autumn Moon Festival Supermoon Total Eclipse

    Clouds were completely covering until the last maybe 10 minutes of the blood moon, it was great to see it without clouds even if it was only for a short period, watching the full moon come back was nice too - online streams can't do it justice unfortunately (anyone else have problems with NASA's...
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    Gaming The Kerbal Space Program - Version 1.2.x

    First time in awhile I've been able to say that's a great addition to the current vanilla game!
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    News ESA ExoMars : Stevenage Assembly

    That's exciting, I bet it's popular like HDEV was...I'll have it up at work in the background!
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