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Mysterious light over Arizona was likely from a rocket launched in China

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122070) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 19 Jun

Astronomer Tony Phillips is calming down persons in Arizona and other states nearby when a bright light that was seen in the sky on Friday night May 16 came from a rocket launch in China. The concerns from persons who witnessed...

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Streak across the sky over Nevada was a space rocket

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122070) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 21 Feb 25

Residents in Las Vegas called the authorities when they saw what appeared to be a white streak in the sky on Monday evening February 10. The authorities did confirm that the streak in the sky was not an Unidentified Flying Object...

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Lunch of Artemis finally

LK2018 @Letranknight2015 (52665) • Philippines 16 Nov 22

They delayed this a few months back. People were so disappointed then because of way too much promotion on the lunch. I was skeptic since the 10 minute hold, but they resume and the rocket lunch. I can't believe I get to see...

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People still excited about going back to the Moon?

LK2018 @Letranknight2015 (52665) • Philippines 27 Aug 22

For the last few days, the hype of Artemis I had been all over youtube in almost every single news agencies channel. But it turns out, it was the very first test of this rocket. For the longer mission, not only they will visit...

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William Shatner's flight into space with Blue Origin

Victor Frankenstein @VictorFrankenstein (310) • United Kingdom 14 Oct 21

William Shatner had the experience of a lifetime yesterday when he went into space on the second manned flight of Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital spaceship. I watched the video of Mr Shatner's description of his experience...

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Huge Chinese Rocket Falling to Earth

CarolDM @CarolDM (203396) • Nashville, Tennessee 4 May 21

Have you heard about what China is up to lately? A huge Chinese rocket is set to fall back to earth in an uncontrolled re-entry after a space station launch. The 21-ton Long March 5B rocket carried a module of China’s new space...

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Short Story Review Charles L Fontenay Service With A Smile

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 14 Feb 21

1958 – Spoiler alerts I have passed much of my convalescence through reading and listening to audio books and short stories online, notably on Libravox. One gem I found was this story about survivors marooned on a distant planet....

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Under the Scorching Sun

[eds] @ZedSmart (19839) • Philippines 11 Mar 20

I have to walk few distance to my destination (to the lawyer's office) under the scorching sun. It's a good day but the sun's is at its peak and I do not have an umbrella with me. I'm still hoping for a good news to come despite...

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Rocket mass sofa.

John Cree @GinerNut (187) • Barcelona, Spain 4 Dec 16

The other day I was helping out Jenny and her friend John on Jenny's current project. A rocket mass sofa. Good hard dirty work lol. Lots of clay, thrown with a satisfactory splat or stuffed into nooks and crannies with mucky...

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SpaceX explodes at around 9 AM in Florida on 9/01/2016 - Thursday.

anthony davis @lookatdesktop (27156) • Dallas, Texas 1 Sep 16

What a sad day for NASA and the SpaceX team. They were conducting a test at the launch site of the SpaceX rocket and it exploded at the launch site resulting in much serious damage. That is an understatement. That will set them...

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Rocket Launch Today from Cape Canaveral

Jeff Moffitt @moffittjc (128824) • Gainesville, Florida 28 Jul 16

This morning, at 8:37am EST, the United Launch Alliance (ULA) launched an Atlas V rocket from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The rocket was carrying a secret payload (translation: spy satellite) for the National...

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Watching History in the Making

Jeff Moffitt @moffittjc (128824) • Gainesville, Florida 21 Dec 15

As many of you may have seen on the news reports by now, the private aerospace company SpaceX successfully launched their Falcon 9 rocket into space tonight, and then in an historic feat landed the booster rocket back on the earth...

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*US Space Debris Found Off UK Island*

JENNY ARCHER @bookbar (1609) • Sudbury, England 28 Nov 15

A large chunk of an American Space Rocket has been found in the sea off one of the UK's Scilly Isles. measuring 32ft X 13ft, and has been fished out of the waters off Tresco. Coastguards think it may be part of the SpaceX Falcon...

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Escape velocity

Garavegeta @garavegeta (963) • Kochi, India 24 Nov 12

Do we actually know,what escape velocity is. A rocket,as we know starts from rest,and initial velocity is not 11.12 m/s.So at what point should the velocity be 11.18 m/s to escape from earth?This looks more...

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Is Kim Jong Un the youngest marshal ever?

tocquevil @tocquevil (157) • China 5 Sep 12

The dear respectecd leader Kim Jong Un was awarded with title of marsal for he successfully thwarted the aggression plans hatched by US imperialists and south korean puppet rigime.It is not easy for so young a man to occupy such a...

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China Lauching Space Expedition June 16, 2012

Artemeis @artemeis (4189) • China 15 Jun 12

I cannot help feeling excited at the launching of Shenzhou-9 which will take place tomorrow at 18:37hrs (GMT+8) which will be 6.37a.m. ET in a satellite facility located in the northwestern Gansu province, China. Everything...

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North Korean rocket launch failed

jureathome @jureathome (5361) • Philippines 13 Apr 12

It's a relief to hear that this rocket launch has not touched Philippine shore at all. We were all so bothered about this activity in North Korea, and even before the rocket was released, it already affected a lot of people....

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zaskasahagun @zaskasahagun (346) • Philippines 13 Apr 12

i dont really have a background about rocket launches and the effects of it. does it affect the whole environment? because ive heard that flights are cancelled because of the said rocket launch. if it does affect, in what way? and...

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Did North Korea Missile Launch FAILED?

LetranKnight25 @LetranKnight25 (33117) • Philippines 13 Apr 12

OH YES IT DID, THOSE COMMIES doesn't read history! I feel sad about this, wasted more money on the missile or rocket that failed to launch! they were bragging about these process of launching a rocket,...

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Price sky rocketing

Professor2010 @Professor2010 (20156) • India 13 Dec 10

This morn I had been to the vegetable market as usual, onion price has gone up to 40 rupees a kilogram, but at Nasik (from where they come) it is around 10 rupees only, similarly potato cost is doubled; the seller...

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