Tag: spaceflight
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Where is Space?
I don’t know where the sunbeams end and starlight begins It’s all a mystery. – The Flaming Lips (noted spaceflight experts) As I’m sure many of you did as well, this afternoon I watched breathlessly as Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner jumped from a balloon 39 kilometers (about 24 miles) above the ground. For the first […]
Matthew R. Francis
Galileo's Pendulum 