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Billionaire teams up with NASA to mine the moon

Posted on March 11, 2015 by mea

Among the moon’s vast riches: gold, cobalt, iron, palladium, platinum, tungsten and Helium-3, a gas that can be used in future fusion reactors to provide nuclear power without radioactive waste. “We went to the moon 50 years ago, yet today … Continue reading →

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A View From The Other Side

Posted on February 8, 2015 by mea
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Apollo Flight Controller 101: Every console explained

Posted on November 1, 2012 by mea

For most of Project Apollo, MOCR 2 had a fixed layout. Each station handled a specific, related group of functions; some watched over the spacecraft’s hardware, or its software, or its position in space, or over the crew itself. Here’s … Continue reading →

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