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On Gutenberg, 28 Jun 2011
New and updated on Project Gutenberg. This time around, including: On the Trail of the Space Pirates (1953) by Carey Rockwell King of the Air (1907) by Herbert Strang Autobiography of an Electron (1911) by Charles R. Gibson On the … Continue reading
Planting trees for space flight
Love this idea — the Russians plant a tree for every manned space flight crew member at their Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, going all the way back to the very first, Yuri Gagarin. NASA astronaut Mike Fossum, Expedition 28 flight engineer … Continue reading
Au revoir, Spirit
A bittersweet announcement from last week: NASA has exhausted all attempts to re-contact the Mars rover, Spirit. As Universe Today put it: Spirit, the plucky rover that landed on Mars on January 3, 2004, overcame many difficulties and endured waaay … Continue reading
On Gutenberg, 19 May 2011
Recently new or updated titles of note on Project Gutenberg. This time around: The Flowers of Evil (1857) by Charles Baudelaire Astounding Stories, July 1931 Warlock o’ Glenwarlock (1881) by George MacDonald The Flowers of Evil (1857) by Charles Baudelaire … Continue reading
Einsteinian gravity model confirmed by NASA
NASA: “NASA Announces Results of Epic Space-Time Experiment” Einstein was right again. There is a space-time vortex around Earth, and its shape precisely matches the predictions of Einstein’s theory of gravity. Researchers confirmed these points at a press conference today … Continue reading
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On Gutenberg, 2 May 2011
New and updated entries of note on Project Gutenberg recently. Featuring: The Secret of the Ninth Planet (1959) by Donald Allen Wollheim The Dawn Patrol, and other poems of an aviator (1917) by Paul Bewsher The Mysterious Sketch (1880) by … Continue reading