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Can NASA Only Track One Spacecraft?

I was watching the press conference on NASA TV tonight discussing the latest delay on STS-122 that was supposed to have launched yesterday, but now looks like it will launch on Sunday. During the questions from reporters, one asked how … Continue reading

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Insanely Large Numbers

I was reading A Walk through the Heavens on Saturday and after reading for a while, I started doing some calculations. First, light travels through a vacuum at 186,282.397 miles per second. That works out to 670,616,629.2 miles per hour, … Continue reading

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