Perimeter Railway for ISS; HETE-1 Comes Down

Quirk writes "The Sydney Morning Herald is touting the mission to start construction of an orbiting railway. Space Shuttle Atlantis will carry the astronauts who will initiate the planned 107 meter rail line along the outside of the International Space Station. The remote controlled train will move at speeds of 2.5 centimeters a second and be able to carry more than 20 tonnes of cargo. Construction is projected for completion in 2004." And B3avis followed up with news about the HETE re-entry: "The pieces of the HETE-1 spacecraft seem to have crashed somewhere in the Himalayas. "The final notification from Space Command indicates that the debris re-entered at 31.5 degrees North and 92.4 degrees East." says NASA. And they should know."

Comments

Re:DEATH TO SAUDI ARABIA

[voinageo]

Yes man. Let's nuke the arabs, fuck all those NASA geeks who say that the world is not flat and those evil enviromentalist who say that burning oil is bad for our flat Earth.

Re:cm/s - mph

[Troed]

Only in the US could translation from standard measurement units to outdated units not used ever in Science be considered "informative" ..