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Alaskan Space Port Prepares for First Launch

Posted by michael on from the space-port-has-a-nice-ring-to-it dept.

dlkf writes: "The Kodiak Launch Complex on the Alaskan coast, run by the Alaska Aerospace Development Corporation is scheduled, weather permitting, to send an Athena-1 booster with 4 NASA and Air Force science experiments into orbit tonight. If successful, Alaska will become just the fourth state (California, Florida and Virginia are the others) to send rockets into earth orbit. For more info, read this."

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  1. Exterminate The Muslim World. Destroy Islam. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    The moans of the dead cry out for vengeance:
    1. Kill all Muslims.
    2. Kill all Mohammedans.
    3. Kill all Arabs.
    4. Kill all Towel Heads.
    5. Kill all Camel Jockeys.
    6. Kill all Dune Coons.
    7. Kill all Islam.
    8. Nuke their countries to hell.
    9. Nuke them again.
    10. Death to Islam.

    I piss on Mecca. I wipe my ass with the Koran. I spit upon Mohammed.

  2. Alaska? Gimme a beak! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    If you weigh 100lbs in Nebraska then you weigh 90lbs in Venezuela and you weigh 120lbs in Alaska.

    Alaska is not the place to build a spaceport. We are on a rock that spins.