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astronaut twitter

By mock ⋅ April 28, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

i have a indifferent/hate relationship with twitter.  while it has suffered from the inability to handle scaling back when it first was launched to its infrequent outages to date, there is a bit more stability, and i don’t hate it as much as i once had.  in fact, i’ve been using it about as much [...]

shuttle discovery launches

By mock ⋅ March 17, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

i caught the launch of the shuttle discovery on my new tv this past sunday night.  this was taken with the phone on my camera aimed at my tv.  i know, very stupid low-tech, but the launch itself was impressive.  the audio didn’t get converted correctly, so it’s best to turn that down while watching [...]

naming node 3

By mock ⋅ March 6, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

nasa is running a poll right now to take votes on the next node to be added to the international space station.  node three is headed up into space during a december launch and will add room to the earth-orbiting facility. node one was named unity.  node two was named harmony.  as of this post, [...]

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