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This Week in Spandex – The Ultimates #1

Posted by brandoniswrite on September 6, 2011

Years ago Marvel created the Ultimate line in the hopes of attracting new readers.  The concept was simple, after years of storytelling the Marvel continuity has become so convoluted that [...] SciFi Pulse


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China make it two in a week via successful Shi Jian 11-02 launch

Posted by brandoniswrite on July 29, 2011

For the second time this week this week alone, China has launched a satellite – this time from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. The Shi Jian 11-02 satellite was launch at 07:42UTC by a Long March 2C (Chang Zheng-2C) launch vehicle from the SLS-2 launch pad – as the Chinese prepare for a busy August. [...]


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Endeavour launch not possible before “end of week;” not likely before following week

Posted by brandoniswrite on June 11, 2010

NASA has determined that the glitch that caused officials to scrub last Friday’s launch was in a switchbox and that complicates efforts to both fix the problem and schedule another launch. NASA officially ruled out Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of this week because fixing the switchbox problem will take at least that long. That runs [...]


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Endeavour’s Final Launch further delayed another Week or more

Posted by brandoniswrite on May 27, 2010

Space Shuttle Endeavour awaits launch sometime in May from Pad 39 A following launch scrub called on April 29, 2011. Critical APU heaters failed during the final countdown. The APU’s are located the aft section of the orbiter around the main engines in this close up view taken while I was standing next to the [...]


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AFRL-NASA ACAT Team Wins Av Week Laureate Award

Posted by brandoniswrite on May 2, 2010

  The F-16D test aircraft takes off from Edwards Air Force Base during the Automatic Collision Avoidance Technology flight test project in June 2009. (NASA photo/Tom Tschida) The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory’s Automatic Collision Avoidance Technology Fighter Risk Reduction Program (ACAT/FRRP) team, which includes NASA‘s Dryden Flight Research Center, has won an Aviation Week [...]


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