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    TomMariner replied to the thread Blue Origin's powerful New Glenn rocket rises on the pad ahead of 1st launch (photo).

    I LOVE competition -- we always run our best race when the person next to us is pushing hard. Best, this is between two private...

    Saturday at 12:03 PM
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    TomMariner replied to the thread 4 years after the giant Arecibo Observatory collapsed, we finally know what happened.

    NSF and the University in Florida stole the maintenance money for their pet projects. As others have pointed out -- not just the...

    Nov 9, 2024
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    TomMariner replied to the thread China's enormous FAST radio telescope is getting even bigger (video).

    Meanwhile, the bright lights at the NFS gave the contract to maintain the Arecibo largest radar unit in the world to a college that...

    Oct 1, 2024
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    TomMariner replied to the thread How SpaceX built a new spacesuit for Polaris Dawn's private spacewalk (video).

    Amazing -- SpaceX sees a technology they need and invents and commercializes it. I thought there was a bid out for like a billion...

    Sep 11, 2024
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    TomMariner replied to the thread SpaceX Polaris Dawn private spacewalk mission: Live updates.

    All four are taking that "spacewalk" -- the whole capsule is depressurized and this ain't as in the movies where a whoosh and the place...

    Sep 10, 2024
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    TomMariner replied to the thread China plans to build moon base at the lunar south pole by 2035.

    Almost as if that American Neil Armstrong took "a small step for man a giant step for mankind" more than 50 years ago, we did it five...

    Sep 10, 2024

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