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Entries by Zoe P. Strassfield from 12/2012

Long, Lonely, Liminal

| Posted 12.07.2012 | Science
Read More: Stratos Mission, History, Ballooning, Aerospace, Felix Baumgartner, Space, Red Bull Stratos, Joseph Kittinger, Science, Stratosphere, Aviation, High-Altitude Ballooning, Engineering, Science News

I don't know where I first saw the photographs. I don't remember if it was in a book, or a magazine, or maybe even online. I'm pretty sure I saw the s...

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My Life In Comets

| Posted 12.20.2012 | TED Weekends
Read More: Ted Weekends, Comet-Ison, Space Exploration, Comet Tempel 1, Comet Wild 2, Space, Astronomy, Deep Impact, Science, Solar System, Stardust, Comets, Comet Halley, TED Weekends News

I'm lucky to live at a time when my species is doing such incredible things, and there are surely plenty of historic moments still to come. And I'm hopeful about Comet ISON next November...

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Touching the Sky

| Posted 12.30.2012 | Science
Read More: Photography, Cosmonauts, Chris Hadfield, Nicole Stott, International Space Station, Alexei Leonov, Space Station, Science, Canada, Guy Laliberte, Space Tourism, Art, Nasa, Space Exploration, Cirque Du Soleil, Scott Kelly, Csa, Gennady Padalka, Astronauts, Science News

Guy Laliberte, a Canadian former acrobat and fire-eater who had founded Cirque du Soleil in the 1980s, was announced as the next space tourist to visit the International Space Station aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.

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