Space Forum / Space History / January 2008

...Anyone see this one actually mobile?
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/float/float-20071226-browse.jpg
...Of course, had the float suffered a flat or a bearing problem...:)
                OM

Modern Mechanics again:
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/01/02/instrumenting-an-earth-satellite/
Pat

and begins using Progress upper stages on orbit :
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20071226/94184642.html
"Russia's Progress M-61 cargo spacecraft, which was detached from the
ISS on December 22, will be used as a platform for technical

Sick and tired of looking like Jabba The Hutt?
Slide that belly fat up to your pecs, where it belongs:
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/12/31/old-age-rejuvenator-centrifuge/
Now instead of saggy jowls you can have a saggy forehead!

    Looking about the BBC's ``On This Day'' news brought me to
news of 13 December 1958:
        Monkey Lost After Space Flight
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/13/newsid_3240000/3240
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