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Folks, the 12 of April 2011 is nearing, it's the 50th Aniversary of Human Space Flight, aka Yuri's Night.

My goal is to put together an event in Kiev, something worthy of this momentous occasion.

A link, a cool photo, a piece of advice or an encouraging word - all will be appreciated. Donations - doubly so.

So, please don't be discouraged by the ( Read more... )

Space.com via Yahoo! News: Rep. Giffords' Astronaut Husband Gets Backup Shuttle Commander
by Denise Chow, SPACE.com Staff Writer by Denise Chow, Space.com Staff Writer - Fri Jan 14, 6:45 pm ET

NASA has named veteran spaceflyer Rick Sturckow to serve as a backup commander during training for the final flight of the space shuttle Endeavour - a ( Read more... )

Do you get Slylock Fox in your paper?  We get it on Sundays.  Now on the full understanding that the cartoon is for kids, and I should know after years of reading it that its logic is often flawed:

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NASA has announced a news conference tomorrow (Thursday), wherein they will discuss...

...an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life.Of course, impact could mean anything from "we've tried to remove this giant squidlike thing from her head since Monday" to "We've come up with a new hypothesis that ( Read more... )

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J F Kennedy, address before the 18th General Assembly of the United Nations (20 September 1963)
Finally, in a field where the United States and the Soviet Union have a special capacity - in the field of space - there is room for new cooperation, for further joint efforts in the regulation and exploration of space. I include among these possibilities ( Read more... )

Means of geocosmic freight traffic optimization. Pilot project based on patents RU2398717 and RU2385275

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Fellow armchair space cadets, I strongly suggest Mary Roach's Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void.  The whole book is great, but the entire chapter dedicated to excreting in space is both tremendously funny and informative.

Something that I can't believe had never occurred to me: Your bladder and intestines don't signal that ( Read more... )

My husband shared this with me tonight.

#1: Take some Dramamine
#2: Be amazed
#3: Go out and do it yourself

Homemade Spacecraft :D

You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com

Homemade Spacecraft from Luke Geissbuhler on Vimeo.