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curiousuburb
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Join Date: May 2004
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2010-12-07, 08:31

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Not for exploration per se but an important aerospace technology demonstrator to be sure.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11911335
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I do think the most significant thing there is the fact that the craft was able to do reentry/land without human assistance.
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..after being in orbit for 7 months. That part kind of shocked me for whatever reason even though I know it's not hard to keep something in orbit. I guess its the psychological aspect that it's a plane, steered by humans, etc coming back like the shuttle. Pretty bad ass.


The SCAPE-suited humans probably don't help with the conspiracy nuts, but they do provide scale.

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Meanwhile... the Japanese AKATSUKI probe arrived at Venus last night.

Climate observations to follow.

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And if you can help program computers to learn, and help explain dark energy, NASA might give you an iPad.

All those who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand.
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