Mojave Spaceport is technically also a manned space launch, although not by a traditional phallus-shaped rocket.
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Mojave Spaceport is technically also a manned space launch, although not by a traditional phallus-shaped rocket.
You can always volunteer for Mars one! I've thought about it...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22360228
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It is highly unlikely that a "Mars reality TV show" will happen.
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Go to the DSC in the OC when the Shuttle exhibit opens this fall.
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It's okay.
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I believe they've got a Titan II upper stage there, as well. You can see it from the highway. It's worth a visit.
I thought there would already be an Gemini and Apollo capsule in the same museum which actually flow into space.
3 generations of actually flown spacecraft sounds awesome.
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Not that I'm aware. In Balboa Park in San Diego they have the CM from Apollo 9. Seeing that up close and personal...I would have had claustrophobia the moment the hatch closed.
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I got a idea
What if I create a website what tells that I will do in 2030 go colonizing Europa, one of the moons of Jupiter. I make some nice PDF's, find some people who will join in the company, go use a modified Dragon, launching everything with a Falcon heavy, find some sponsors who I can ask to post there logo's in my site under sponsors, telling that my group is a non-profit group, and the last of all, it become something like big brother.
I surely think that the mass going be interested and believe my, no matter how unrealistic and nonsense it is.
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Have you seen a Mercury capsule up close?
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Got a new desktop today, connected our printer to it, shared the printer, went to my laptop to get it talking to the printer, and found that when I browsed printers under the new machine's hostname, all I got was a list of (disconnected) printer shares from my own machine.
So I ping the new machine, and get:
For a while I thought the problem was on my own machine, but then I had my brother try pinging the new machine, and he got the same response.
Our Internet connection is AT&T U-Verse, and it turns out AT&T's router has a nasty firmware bug that can cause it to answer DNS requests on the local network with the loopback address, and it's starting to look like the only way of dealing with that may be a factory reset (which may then cause issues with our DSL service, depending on what kind of configuration AT&T did).
So I ping the new machine, and get:
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PING Dell9010.gateway.2wire.net (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.For a while I thought the problem was on my own machine, but then I had my brother try pinging the new machine, and he got the same response.
Our Internet connection is AT&T U-Verse, and it turns out AT&T's router has a nasty firmware bug that can cause it to answer DNS requests on the local network with the loopback address, and it's starting to look like the only way of dealing with that may be a factory reset (which may then cause issues with our DSL service, depending on what kind of configuration AT&T did).
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And I thought I am travel lazy because I hate sitting in a car for more than one hour. :lol::lol:
Well, it is 6 hours from San Francisco to P&W or SpaceX in Los Angeles in a car (Damn is car travel boring in the US).
It is way more funny if you calculate the same route with public transportation... the train from San Jose to LA Union station needs over 10 hours for the trip with only 8 stops. for altogether 650 km distance.
From Hamburg to Munich, you travel 780 km, and need almost 8 hours for the distance (A bit faster than travelling by car in the US). But by train, you need exactly 6 hours for the trip here with 11 stops.
Of course, going by plane would be way faster anyway. :lol::lol:
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Take a sub-orbital hop to SpaceX!
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As someone who never see snows without some serious traveling, the thought that even temperate climate places (in the northern hemisphere, of course 
) can have snowstorms in May is, um, unreal.
http://english.wunderground.com/news/may-snowstorms-20130430
) can have snowstorms in May is, um, unreal.http://english.wunderground.com/news/may-snowstorms-20130430
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As someone who never see snows without some serious traveling, the thought that even temperate climate places (in the northern hemisphere, of course
http://english.wunderground.com/news/may-snowstorms-20130430
I grew up in Denver, and I saw snow there as late as May and as early as October. The interesting thing, though, is that Denver doesn't get a whole lot of snow and what does fall generally melts within a few days, even in midwinter. The key is that Denver is high and fairly dry, so the day/night variation in temperatures is as significant as the summer/winter variation (whereas in Dallas, where I currently live, day/night is about half of summer/winter). So you can get freezing temperatures at night well into spring or early in fall, and you can get 60 or 70 degrees Fahrenheit on a midwinter afternoon (I'm fairly certain I've seen 70 degrees with snow on the ground in Denver, though that may be a bit of an exaggeration on the part of my memory. 60 at least, though).
I've seen the [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_3"]Gemini 3[/ame] capsule, the Molly Brown, up close when I was around 5-8 years old I think, in the Gus Grissom Memorial Museum.
Back then it wasn't suspended from the ceiling, but rather on a low pedestal with steps up to the capsule. The capsule was open, and you could actually look inside it.
That's the last real spacecraft I've actually seen in person.
Back then it wasn't suspended from the ceiling, but rather on a low pedestal with steps up to the capsule. The capsule was open, and you could actually look inside it.
That's the last real spacecraft I've actually seen in person.
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I think I remember seeing the Mercury capsule at the Chabot Space and Science Center a few years ago.
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I would not be too surprised to see Lionel Messi moving to Munich in the next season or two right now.... :rofl:
