Два явно нездоровых датчанина собираются полететь в космос на собственноручно сделанной ракете.


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"We took 40 year old data tapes, tape drives that had been in a garage for 30 years, found elderly engineers, and reverse-engineered ancient technology to provide enhanced imagery from the five Lunar Orbiter missions in a fashion - and resolution - inconceivable at the time that the missions were conducted." a talk by Dennis Wingo, via nasawatch

Поздравляю всех с Днём космонавтики! Сегодня исполняется 49 лет первому пилотируемому космическому полёту, а это между прочим был советский парень Юра Гагарин, и 29 лет первому орбитальному полёту американского космического челнока Space Shuttle.

Does spending a lot of time on a space station make you better at reading text oriented the wrong way, like sideways or upside down?

I was about to give a call to a fellow astronaut and get a firsthand account, but a look through my address book revealed the sad fact that I don't actually have any fellow astronauts :/