Outer Space Thread
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Re: Outer Space Thread
It's been an awful week for space exploration.
Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo explodes after takeoff.
Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo explodes after takeoff.
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Re: Outer Space Thread
Philae lander is going to attempt to land on a comet:
http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/12/world/com ... countdown/
http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/12/world/com ... countdown/
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Re: Outer Space Thread
https://twitter.com/Philae2014
Twitter is great if you do it the right way.
Also, this guy just came down from the ISS, and had been taking some great pictures.
https://twitter.com/astro_reid
Twitter is great if you do it the right way.
Also, this guy just came down from the ISS, and had been taking some great pictures.
https://twitter.com/astro_reid
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That one-way private manned mission to Mars is a scam
https://medium.com/matter/all-dressed-u ... 76df527ca0
https://medium.com/matter/all-dressed-u ... 76df527ca0
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Re: Outer Space Thread
thats an incredible read
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Yup, found it on Longform.org, they link to great stuff pretty consistently.go birds wrote:thats an incredible read
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That was a great read. I feel sorry for the kid that just wants to go to space and dumped his girl to focus on it.
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I liked the technical musing on just how goddamn hard it would be to sustain human life on Mars. Just getting there would be pretty difficult with the lengthy spaceflight.IMADreamer wrote:That was a great read. I feel sorry for the kid that just wants to go to space and dumped his girl to focus on it.







