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Classic Atari-style joystick goes USBMac OS X compatible out the boxLegacy Engineering Group has released a USB joystick that looks and performs just like the joystick included with the classic Atari 2600 video game console. It costs US$14.99. ... |
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Blind NASA Engineer Solves Russian ProblemA U.S. space agency team led by a blind engineer built a system to receive data from a Soyuz spacecraft just days after Russia asked for assistance. Marco Midon, a blind NASA electronics engineer, proposed a mobile system be deployed at a ground site below the Soyuz re-entry path after its separ... |
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ESA Unveils Re-entry Modulebmcage writes "The ESA unveiled the Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle, a real re-entry vehicle. Although it will not be reused, it has a better geometry than NASA's Orion or the Russian Soyuz, giving better lift, and control. This is not done by the addition of useless wings, but by using tw... |
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John Carmack's Aerospace Firm Reveals 'Fishbowl'Between Richard Garriott's recent extraterrestrial flight and the work going on at Armadillo Aerospace (a firm founded by id Software master coder John Carmack, it seems that space tourism is the hyper-rich geek's version of rebuilding a '67 Impala in the garage. Th... |
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Richard Garriott back from outer space, fresh and ready to gohttp://www.statesman.com/news/content/gen/ap/EU_Russia_US_Space.html Link: Russians, plus American tourist, return from space. Russians, plus American tourist, return from space By STEVE GUTTERMAN Associated Press Writer MOSCOW — Soon after he touched down Friday, American spa... |
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Space tourist returns to Earth safelySpace tourist Richard Garriott's orbital vacation ended Friday as a Soyuz capsule carrying him and two cosmonauts landed safely in north-central Kazakhstan. ... |
