I love the wiring job in his lab/studio.

Not much that a US embassy could do, even for a Saudi prince.

The legal grounds on what any country’s embassy can do is pretty limited. They cannot circumvent local laws or shield you from legal action being taken. When you are visiting a foreign country, you are subject to the various laws of that country. An embassy can only provide support and assistance. Being able to find a…

Ah, so the T-2 was used because it was a relatively easy to recover spin platform, not because it was some wild ride from hell?

Have this playing in the background whilst reading the sections about the Blitz and the RAF.

I’ve never understood the need to carry an Unobtanium machete that was forged in Mount Doom as a standard hiking/basic survival knife.

“This garnered the straight-winged T-2 a special place when it came to advanced spin training.”

And that is why something of that magnitude would not be a NASA press release.

The line between firefighter and arsonist is a very fine, sometimes fuzzy one. I was a firefighter for several years, but never an arsonist... not in the classical sense at least.

Given that the two researchers noted in the press release have been involved with research or finding signs of previous water on Mars, my money is on the announcement of something water-related. If it was proof of life, it wouldn’t be a NASA announcement, it would be much higher up on the food chain (no pun intended)…

An OK marketing tidbit, but it would have been much better without the typos and errors. Lewis’ hometown is listed as “Missoula, MN”, just as the most obvious one.

In my experience (a lot of business and personal travel, short haul and long duration), overly complicated packing methods (especially when leaving to go on the trip) just end up in a veil of tears when you are packing to come home. Spending a lot of time packing to go and squeezing as much as you can in your case…

Not that hard:

What, no lunchbox? I am disappoint.

Potentially very useful from an automation standpoint.

It is still mindboggling to me to think that just a short while ago, they were in *space*, then they fell all the way to Earth in a semi-controlled crash in a few short hours. Nothing “magic” about it, just gravity and orbital mechanics, but still...

Excellent article. I love it when things like this are dredged up from recent history.

Boeing uses Airbus as a subcontractor?

“We must be linked somehow” - I am so sorry. I didn’t mean for it to happen.

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