March 2012
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Okay, it's midterm week, so I may not be on until...
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“After 39 trips in space and roughly half a billion miles, the space shuttle...”
– Shuttle ‘Discovery’ to make final landing at Dulles
(via spaceshares)
I wish I could be there to see it!
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Dead Presidents: Random Dead Presidents Fact of... →
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Benjamin Harrison was often called the “human iceberg” — a humorless, serious man who had little use for all of the small-talk, glad-handing, and other niceties that came along with being politician. Harrison was difficult to work for and observers wondered if the 23rd President had any…
Benjamin Harrison: lifesaver.
February 2012
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“In just one year, the expenditure of the U.S.’s military budget is equivalent to...”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson (via anticapitalist)
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A question for the NASA fandom:
Has your fangirlness/fanboyness ever lead anyone to ask you if you were an astronaut?
(A few people have asked me this online, I guess because they couldn’t tell I was 19 without seeing my face, and some kid at MIT asked if I worked for NASA when I was sightseeing there in the fall, because I was wearing my jacket that has my space pins and my Space Camp patch on it.)
So, what about you...
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“Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in...”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson, discussing his new book Space Chronicles and why exploring space still matters (via itsfullofstars)
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Hmmm... redesigned icons. That's new.
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[Insert Space Here]: That Time When Chris Kraft... →
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From this article:
Early on, there were power struggles between Kraft’s boss and mentor, the estimable Bob Gilruth, and NASA’s guru of rocketry, Wernher von Braun. Kraft had his own run-ins with the German engineer. They almost came to blows at a cocktail party were von Braun was vocally…
You see, Erin, he wanted to punch him out, but he didn’t. If Chris Kraft...
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[Insert Space Here]: That Time When Chris Kraft... →
In mid-November (of 1965), Paul Haney of the Public Affairs Office and I flew to Florida for meetings at the Cape. National Airlines knew us too well, and this was one of those times when they upgraded us to first class on a DC-8 flight that stopped in New Orleans. As we climbed out of New…
I did not know this story, but it is incredible.
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Dead Presidents: Random Dead Presidents Fact of... →
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Before the Twelfth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified in 1804, Presidential elections did not feature separate Electoral voting to distinguish the President and Vice President. Presidential Electors had two votes with the idea that one vote was for their Presidential choice and one…
Sometimes the strangest stories are the true ones.
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Re: The zombie-appocalypse fandom question →
(I can’t reblog because of the swearing, but…)
Gus Grissom, John Young, Judy Resnik, a random test pilot dude and lots of MOCR guys. BRING IT!
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