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    Cool names for spacecraft

    Ship's have traditionally had women's names so here are my suggestions: - Hypathia (4th century astronomer from Alexandria); - Valentina Tereshkova; - Caroline Herschel; - Henrietta Leavitt; - Sally K. Ride (yeah!); - Julie Payette (Hey, she's from my hometown!); - Amy Mainzer (!!!); -...
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    Question The Orbitnauts' Quiz of astronomy and spaceflight!

    My answer is Plesetsk. Encyclopedia Astronomica says Plesetsk has had "over 1711 major launches from 1963 to 2007", and other sources claim between 20 and 30 launches a year since 1994. So average 25 a year since 2007 to June 30th 2012, and that gives us 112 aditionnal lauches. 1711 + 112 =...
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    Tell us about yourself!

    Hello Space Fans! Hello from Montreal, space fans! As my handle shows, I'm of an age where I can actually remember seeing the Apollo 11 landing live on TV. After a hiatus of a few decades, I realized that space flight still thrilled me, and so I'm very happy to have found this forum. I'm also...
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