DEEP IMPACT KICKS OFF FOURTH OF JULY WITH DEEP SPACE FIREWORKS
After 172 days and 431 million kilometers (268 million miles) of deep space stalking, Deep Impact successfully reached out and touched comet Tempel 1. The collision between the coffee table-sized impactor and city-sized comet occurred at 1:52 a.m. EDT.
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The Solar Sail in Orbit Image: NPO Lavochkin, The Planetary Society (c).
As Cosmos 1, the first solar sail spacecraft, orbits our planet, it will be visible from nearly everywhere on its surface at one time or another—so everyone on Earth can participate in our mission!
Here’s how you can track the flight of the first … Read The Rest >>
A couple of years ago NASA had a thing going where you could add your name and it would be carried on a CD aboard this spacecraft. I signed up and got a nice certificate to boot. Closest I’ll ever get to space travel, so might as well do it with a bang.
Top News Article | Reuters.com
By Deborah Zabarenko
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - NASA’s Deep Impact probe is scheduled to lob a big … Read The Rest >>
You remember those movies a couple of years back where folks go around trying to get in the way of tornadoes to place some kind of instrument package in it’s path? Well somebody went and did it. You get the view from the cameras inside the instrument package.
Inside Tornadoes Multimedia @ National Geographic Magazine
Living at the northern end of Tornado Alley I have seen more of those then I would have liked. … Read The Rest >>
CNN.com - Apple confirms chip shift to Intel - Jun 6, 2005
Apple confirms chip shift to Intel
Monday, June 6, 2005 Posted: 1841 GMT (0241 HKT)
SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) — Apple Computer is confirming that it is shifting to chips made by Intel for its Macintosh lines.
Hmmm. So all the rumors last week were true. I bet there are some lively discussions going on in Mac centric forums right now.
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