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[Pops1967GTX]

In Just One Week, NASA Will Launch a Spacecraft to 'Touch the Sun'


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“The captain stared from the huge dark-lensed port, and there indeed was the sun, and to go to that sun and touch it and steal part of it forever away was his quiet and single idea.“

-The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953) by Ray Bradbury

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[Photon440]

I see that NASA, Canada and Russia have gotten more astronauts into space on the latest Soyuz launch. https://www.cnet.com/news/nasa-russ...1acfa04&bhid=20597523668340252653868782283375
I looked around, but couldn't find any of the threads we had on the topic after the failed Oct. 11 attempt.

 

[Photon440]

50 years ago on Christmas Eve, this photo was taken... EARTHRISE

 

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[Photon440]

SpaceX capsule docks with the ISS https://www.businessinsider.com/spa...urce=email&utm_content=&utm_campaign=campaign

For the first time since 2011, an American craft capable of hauling people has made it back up there.

Let's hope it makes it back safely on Friday to complete the testing!

 

[Budnicks]

very cool
SpaceX 7 man capsule 'Crew Dragon'

I don't hate weirdo Billionaire Douchebag Loon,
(subsidized Tesla owner) Elon Musk as much as I use to know

 

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Image courtesy: NASA/JPL-Caltech
JPL photo number P-6759

 

[Pops1967GTX]

Reposting from another site.

the first astronauts had Corvettes? Did you know they leased them from Jim Rathmann, winner of the 1960 Indy 500, and raced in 13 others? and they OWNED an Indy 500 race car

When 2 Mercury astronauts tried to keep their Indy 500 entry under wraps


https://www.indystar.com/story/spor...torcycle-champion-joe-leonard-dies/101082708/

https://erenow.net/common/live-from...ng-the-space-race-from-sputnik-to-today/3.php

 

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[Lets Roll]

I went to the tour of Cape Canaveral Kennedy space center. I regret not getting the silver astronaut jacket with all the patches on it they had in the gift store.

 

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[Photon440]

Was NASA ripped off?
https://www.cnet.com/news/nasa-was-...090e536&bhid=20597523668340252653868782283375

 

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