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| Having a blast with thrusters | ||
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From dborzillo using Gmail 07/22/2008 05:58 PM
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| Funny (but true) video about technology | ||
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| One Big Post | ||
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From dborzillo using Gmail 07/21/2008 02:43 PM
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| NASA receives about 3,300 applications for 2009 astronaut class | ||
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From dborzillo using Google Reader 07/16/2008 06:47 PM
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| Reverse Engineering the Saturn V | ||
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From dborzillo using Gmail 07/10/2008 09:56 AM
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| Another day of testing and demo prep for next week | ||
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| Water on the moon | ||
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| The solution to the oil crisis? | ||
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From dborzillo using Gmail 07/09/2008 02:06 PM
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| The internet finally crashed | ||
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From dborzillo using Gmail 07/08/2008 06:05 PM
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| The final shuttle missions | ||
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Today our propulsion systems class was invited to our professor's facility where he constructs small thrusters and rockets for small satellites as small as 4 inches by 4 inches. The first two pictures are from a test stand for a small 50 milliNewton thruster. It uses nitrogen gas, hydrogen peroxide, and a catalyst. Sorry about the crummy pictures. My cell phone really doesn't take great photos. The last two photos are of a larger thruster that works off of nitrous oxide (laughing gas) as the oxidizer and regular rubbing alcohol as the fuel. Whe...

I haven't posted in a while, but there's been a lot on my mind. Hence, a mash-up of all that's in my head follows: - Using Feedjit I've been tracking hits to this blog . The top two posts deal with Obama's space policy and my post about the space shuttle's replacement . I've been considering making this a blog exclusively on space exploration. That may be my only chance to get visitors that will click on my Google AdSense ads so I can make a bit more than the $0.75 I have racked-up so far ;) - Checkout the postcard from NASA on my astronaut app...
...and I'm one of them! Good article on the process of narrowing down the applicants. I look forward to my invitation to Houston for late fall/early winter ;) via The Write Stuff by Mark Matthews on 7/14/08 WASHINGTON -- Think getting into college is hard? Try getting into NASA’s 2009 astronaut class. About 3,300 jet-setters filed their applications with NASA before the July 1 deadline, according to the astronaut admissions office. The space agency will accept 10-15...