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Archive for February, 2011

Finally, Someone at NASA Admits the Truth…

NASA Chief Technologist, Robert Braun, admitted in a interview with Physorg.com that it would be at least 10 years before NASA can develop and fly humans on a new ship.  (Special hat tip to NASAEngineer.com for bringing this story to the forefront.) “But with [Read More]

That’s My Girl!!!

On February 24th, 2011, OV-103 Space Shuttle Discovery launched for the last time into space.  Discovery was the first Space Shuttle I had the privilege to work on and she has always been my favorite.  I have watched many launches since Columbia’s first launch, and [Read More]

RV-103 Victory Garden

Previously, in another post, the crew of RV-103 tried their hands at canning food.  It turned out quite successful and we wondered what else could we do.  Well, since the crew is going to be in Florida for awhile before setting off again on another misadventure/mission, [Read More]

Major Technical Difficulties

As some of you may have noticed, RV-103.com has been absent from the web for 5 days.  There is a reason for that.  Five days ago, WordPress, the program I use for my blog, released an update version 3.0.5.  I dutifully downloaded the update and installed it.  Suddenly, [Read More]

Global Warming or Climate Change

There is so much debate on the topic of Global Warming, or what is now called Climate Change, that sometimes it’s hard to boil all the arguments down to it’s basic core.   Finally, there is a blog post that simplifies and explains it for all to understand by a [Read More]

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Goodbye and GodSpeed Discovery RV-103.

Goodbye and GodSpeed Discovery RV-103.

What can I say, but that it is an end to a major chapter in our lives.  Today I turned over the keys to our great and [Read More]

CollisionTEC: A Review

CollisionTEC: A Review

Towards the end of Mission #2, RV-103 had a mishap with a pole, as detailed here.  Last month, I finally got an [Read More]

Breaking News: Obama proposes an end to NASA’s Planetary Science Program

Breaking News: Obama proposes an end to NASA’s Planetary Science Program

“Word has leaked out that in its new budget, the Obama administration intends to terminate NASA’s planetary [Read More]

Mismatched Models

Mismatched Models

Most advocates of Human Space Flight programs always model HSF with the airplane model.  Government subsidized at [Read More]

Human Space Flight Trivia Week 7

Human Space Flight Trivia Week 7

First of all my apologies.  I had to take care of some duties at home that prevented me from posting the newest [Read More]

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