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South & North Korea united in failure to launch satellites
Just a few months after North Korea failed to launch a satellite, South Korea yesterday failed to launch a satellite. The launch, from Naro Space Center, appeared to go well. But when the craft reached space, one of the two fairings covering the satellite failed to drop off. With the extra weight, the satellite probably [...]
India’s Next Moon Mission
Last year, India landed (or crashed) something called the Moon Impactor Probe (carried by its Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft) into the moon. The main spacecraft continues its lunar orbiting mission. Next time, they’re preparing to land. With Russian help India’s getting help from some real experts—the Russian space agency. The RSA is designing a small lunar rover, [...]
A History of Corned Beef in Space
Gus Grissom was hungry. Unfortunately, the commander of the Gemini 3 spacecraft was not scheduled to eat. In fact, there was little food aboard for this brief test flight. And none of the food was for Gus. His crewmate, John Young, did have food. He was assigned that horrible early space food that you eat [...]
