Archive for November, 2009

From Fulton to Falcon

Monday, November 30th, 2009

Some people have become impatient with the pace of progress in the development of the commercial space industry. Bob Clarebrough looks back two centuries to the development of a different industry to find lessons of innovation for today’s space entrepreneurs.

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Funimation Adds Sekirei, Tetsuwan Birdy Decode & Decode:02

Sunday, November 29th, 2009

The North American anime distributor Funimation has announced at the Anime USA convention on Saturday that it has licensed the home entertainment, broadcast, and digital rights to the first 12-episode Sekirei anime series and both 13-episode seasons of Tetsuwan Birdy Decode from Aniplex . Funimation plans to release both projects on DVD in 2010. Funimation also acquired the home entertainment …

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Galesburg couple?s son rescued adrift in Pacific

Friday, November 27th, 2009

In the darkest hours, Jim and Beth Harmon found themselves standing the hallway just inside their front door, staring at framed photographs of the son they thought they lost to his abiding love. Blond-haired, 25-year-old Luke was independent and daring from the day he was born. The ocean was his love ? first love, really. Wandering in a haze all day and night Monday and most of Tuesday, Beth …

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Thanksgiving comes early

Friday, November 27th, 2009

In the darkest hours, Jim and Beth Harmon found themselves standing the hallway just inside their front door, staring at framed photographs of the son they thought they had lost to his abiding love.

Read More at The Galesburg Register-Mail…

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Armada 2526 released

Thursday, November 26th, 2009

Filed under: Downloads , Strategy In the early 1990s there was a space strategy game released for the PC called Armada 2525 . It didn’t get as much attention as other similar games like Master of Orion but it was designed by R.T. Smith who later went on to become one of the major designers and programmers for The Creative Assembly’ s Total War series. A few years ago, Smith decided to leave The …

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Swiftrank’s as best portrait of Andromeda Galaxy

Thursday, November 26th, 2009

The NASA Swift satellite is out there searching for distant cosmic explosions.   Swift  has also taken the highest resolution ultraviolet portrait of the Andromeda Galaxy a neighboring spiral galaxy of ours.  The galaxywhich is known as M31 in the constellation Andromeda, is the largest and closest spiral galaxy.

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Buzz Aldrin: In Search of a Real Spaceship

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

In Search of a Real Spaceship By Buzz Aldrin Imagine this scenario: you are a tourist coming home from a special vacation jaunt. Or…

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Shuttle Atlantis heads for rendezvous with International Space Station

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

Space shuttle Atlantis blasted off under sunny skies from Kennedy Space Center today with a crew of six headed to the International Space Station.

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Shuttle mission to extend life of space station

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – The space shuttle Atlantis was poised for launch on Monday on one of the final missions to outfit the International Space Station so it can remain flying long after the shuttles are retired.

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2012: NASA’s Scientific Reality Check

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

NASA is now joining in to combat the 2012 nonsense. Don Yeomans, manager of NASA’s Near Earth Object office has produced a video and written an article, providing the scientific realities surrounding the celestial happenings of 2012. Yeomans has done a wonderful job explaining everything that is and isn’t going to happen in [...]

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