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Official news: http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/techscience/2012/10/25/16/0601000000AEN20121025013200320F.HTML

Russian news reporting websites rock with their picture selection, as usual: http://top.rbc.ru/society/25/10/2012/808232.shtml

Project Mercury had roots in the idea of fast deployment of infantry or special forces overseas using many capsules shot in ballistic missiles salvo. Hard to imagine in the real life, but such was the initial idea!

This topic is inspired by the line from the recently published "The Shoals of The Kraken Mare": Hey o hey hear the tug of Titan's tide, My first thought that once Titan is tidally locked, there could be no tide on Titan. But then I tried to calculate the tidal pull caused by Saturn on Titan's...

Orbiting is confirmed! Good luck on your mission, Kazbeks! :thumbup:

1/2 stage sep visible.

Ignition and lift-off.

Live coverage by MCC-M has also started (this one has a sound): mms://193.233.61.171/live

Launch coverage is live on TSENKI streams too: http://www.tsenki.com/broadcast/broadcast/

Could any English native speaker try to fill in the gaps in the lyrics?

Don't overdo your cultural immersing exercises with tea in high concentrations: you might end up becoming familiar with simple pleasures of prisoners in Russian jails...

I think the drag-to-mass ratio for debris is generally much bigger than for a whole thing... The problem is that the part of debris were likely ejected to orbits with higher perigees and therefore a longer lifetime than originally.

Cool! :thumbup: But the someone who created that could have really used more than one still image for his vid.

Yes.

And don't forget to squint your right eye, so it doesn't get damaged by the spoon! :rofl:

Believe me, the fact the package is empty, is not a terrible loss. :P It is.

Couple of ethnically charged, but fun to watch vids today. 1st is a beautiful clip of a Georgian band Eresioni, very cool Caucasus singing and dancing (and some sabre rattling :) ) 2nd is a short allegoric clip devoted to 175th anniversary of Russian railways, with a motto "From Past to...

It's a vintage Soviet-era tea package. top reads: Georgian Tea Extra Selection front has a label of supervisor entity: Ministry of Food Industry of Russian Soviet Federate Socialist Republic (a name for Russia as a part of the USSR), RosDietTchaiProm - a ministry's division for Tea and Dietic...

My way: Buy a bif leaf black tea (actually, as I have learnt in a tea-growing Caucasus region, green tea is different to black tea only in the specifics of leaf withering). The Chinese export some very good sorts (don't try to be extreme in selection of them, though). Get a china kettle about...

Oh, finally I can ask that: what DHD thrusters were useful for?