X-37B улетел, но обещал вернуться

"After flying vertically away from the launch pad at Complex 41, the Atlas 5's Russian-made main engine steered the rocket east from the Space Coast and into a clear blue sky awash with breathtaking sunset colors."

"Once in space, the spaceplane was supposed to open its clamshell-like payload bay doors and unfurl its solar panel.
During several weeks or months in orbit, the X-37B will be a testbed for secret new technologies."

"Fundamentally, this is an updated version of the space shuttle," said Gary Payton, the U.S. Air Force's top civilian leader for military space programs. "The Air Force has a suite of military missions in space. This new vehicle could potentially help us do those missions better."

"Our top priority is demonstrating the vehicle itself," Payton said. "This has an autonomous flight control system, a new generation of silica tile, a wealth of other new technologies that are one generation beyond the shuttle."

"The actual on-orbit activities we do classify," Payton said earlier this week in a conference call with reporters. "We're doing that in this case for the actual experimental payloads that are on-orbit with the X-37."

It will land on a runway originally built for the space shuttle at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av012/100422launch/

The sky cake is a lie!

как появилась религия и что из этого вышло :)

Watch on YouTube

В понедельник ожидается Boobquake! :)

Purdue University student ­Jen McCreight не ожидала такой реакции на свое предложение устроить "день глубокого декольте" в своем блоге:
In the name of science, I offer my boobs
В ответ получила просьбы об интервью от газет и радиостанций, но даже объяснительная запись
A quick clarification about Boobquake не помогла ей избежать популярности
За три дня про нее написали все крупные газеты северной америки, а вчера вечером рассказали по CNN :)
BBC News собирается делать репортаж с участнегами в Вашингтоне...

p.s. все-таки постарайтесь в понедельник держаться подальше от больших зданий ;)

Иэх, ничего святого... :)

"Council set to OK stores open on holidays"
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Kyle Rae, chair of the committee, said the change is important to level the playing field across the GTA, noting Torontonians can spend holidays driving past their closed local mall on the way to an open one in Vaughan or Mississauga.
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“The culture has changed,” and, in a diverse city like Toronto, the nine holidays — New Year’s Day, Good Friday, Victoria Day, Canada Day, Labour Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, Easter Sunday and Family Day — are no longer sacrosanct.