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2009 is the International Year of Astronomy! Everyone has been taking amazing star pictures all over the world and throwing Star Parties to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Galileo looking through the first telescope!!!! eEEiiiii! Isn't that exciting?! Doesn't that make you want to play croquet at night with torches and telescopes everywhere and take pictures and drink cocktails!

a stylish, classic is always in good taste.....

Astronomy clubs! NASA! Hubble! Enthusiasts, people and enthusiastic star partying people!! 2009 is the year to gather together under the stars and get disco!! Look at this amazing website!

http://astronomy2009.us/ Read more

NASA, in an effort to study the long Pillownautsterm effects of low gravity on humans has been using paid human research volunteer "pillownauts" who spend months, face up, lying in a bed tilted to 9.5 degrees, with their feet placed firmly against a panel. This setup puts roughly the same gravitational stress on the pillownaut's feet as the moon would. Ronita Cromwell, a NASA senior research scientist heading up the project explains that "What we're doing is removing some of the effects of 1 G and achieving one-sixth G along the long axis of the body." Read more

Crashing hellishly expensive equipment into the moon at 6,000 miles per hour doesn’t sound like such a great scientific move to me, but apparently NASA thinks it’s a good idea. Right now, two robotic probes are careening wildly to the moon on a mission that will supposedly help mark future “human camp sites.”

I guess the U.S. National Park Service has become too dull for us humans. Long have we ogled the bear, the moose, the Grand Canyon; they have lost their allure. We now ache to carry home chunks of moon rock in our pockets rather than sea shells and arrow heads from our adventures. Read more

Atronaut Urine PartyOne small sip for man, one giant sip for mankind. No, that's not beer they're toasting with, but "Recycled Urine"......kind of makes you thirsty, doesn't it? Imagine how different the tv shows Gilligan's Island and Lost would be if they had this capability. I mean, seriously. What up with this?

In a quote in Space magazine, Michael Barratt said,

"We have these highly attractive labels on our water bags that essentially say 'brought to you by ECLSS,' and 'drink when real water is over 200 miles away,'"

That's pretty funny, but the price tag of the "Operation Urine" is not quite as funny:
$250 million. Not cheap. On the flip side however, the article points out that:

" Having recycled water available also lightens the load for Russian resupply ships." Read more