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This is amazing – an intentional burn out of a Japanese capsule hitting the atmosphere.

Gawker has some ancient history on the occasion of Bill Safires death yesterday. Below is the speech he wrote for Nixon in the event that the Lunar Module failed, leaving Armstrong and Aldrin lost on the Moon. Weird that they would write this for something staged in a soundproof Hollywood building, huh? :-p

This is so cool. The original source code for the guidance systems of the Apollo missions has been released and in the video below, compiled into a Palm Centro handheld. Check out the story here http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/ .

14-year-old hit by 30,000 mph space meteorite… Gerrit Blank, 14, was on his way to school when he saw “ball of light” heading straight towards him from the sky. A red hot, pea-sized piece of rock then hit his hand before bouncing off and causing a foot wide crater in the ground. The teenager survived [...]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/science/space/03launchweb.html? ref=science Poor James ‘Scotty’ Doohans ashes were onboard.