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Curiosity is already nuclear powered! You just need an uprated RTG! Easy-peasy...

Going to have to call “shennanigans” on the Ed White entry. While he was a badass, the details of the story as printed are clearly those of Alexei Leonov, the cosmonaut who was the first person to perform an EVA.

Just took a 10 day trip to Maui where we rented a condo. It was sort of stocked with stuff. The one thing I wish I would have brought with me? My knife. Had to go out and buy one while I was there. The knives were so bad I could (and did) whack the palm of my hand with the "edge" with no damage to even the topmost…

I think it has some decent competition for that title...

I love their Lilly Flagg Milk Stout... Some of their new cask aged stuff is pretty good as well!

Best candy bar in the history of mankind. I buy a case whenever I go to Canada.

We call it the Doberman Cycle at our house...

Man, this is one of the worst researched articles I've read in a long time. Let's start with you completely forgetting Gus Grissom's Mercury splash-down, where his capsule sank to the bottom of the oceean... and then there was Soyuz 1, where Komarov, the poor bastard, ended up a greasy spot in the flaming wreckage of…

"I'm no pollyanna, and certainly am no optimist, but rapists and murderers don't typically choose their victims by creating a startup company."

VOTE: Char-Griller Akorn Kamado Cooker

Looks like my old Droid X from the front and sides...

*NOTE: Must also supply graham crackers, marshmallow and pointy sticks

Old Hat.. Anita and Arabella did it in the 70's! http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/students/secrets_of_the_smithsonian/spiders_in_space.html

THe Microwave wasn't a NASA spinoff. See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_oven

As a side note, the mosaic on the church in Huntsville is sometimes referred to as "Egg Beater Jesus" because of the way the robes loop back up like, well, an egg beater. Oh, and like most of these, the design of the steeple was intentionally aerospace themed.

A lot of the equipment goes into a system called GSAxcess, where it can be sent to other government agencies (if it can be repurposed). Once it leaves there, it goes into a system where schools and museums have chance to get it, either on loan or as a property transfer of ownership (this is what they just did for the…

I believe he was a Nazi and an SS officer. As for his choice on timing of wearing uniforms, there are many photos of him surrounded by other Nazi and SS officers, and he is in business attire. Though what your wearing has no real bearing on who you are and what you think, especially not under such a violently…

I'm skeptical that von Braun is in that image. I've scoured for a high quality copy of the image and in the best I can find, the little that is seen of his face looks far too old to be von Braun at that point in time. It looks almost like the pictures of him from his days working for fairchild, when he was in his…

Sen-Dog approves...