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  1. Standing 72 meters tall with 9 liquid-fueled engines on its booster, this powerhouse is a direct architectural answer to SpaceX’s Falcon 9.

    #spacex #falcon9 #rocketscience #spacerace #rocketlaunch #chinaspace #astronomy #satellite #starlink #qianfan

  2. Soviet cosmonauts Georgy Beregovoy and Pavel Popovich present an engraved hunting shotgun as a gift to American astronaut Neil Armstrong, the Soviet Union, 1970

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  3. Soviet cosmonauts Georgy Beregovoy and Pavel Popovich present an engraved hunting shotgun as a gift to American astronaut Neil Armstrong, the Soviet Union, 1970

    “That night the cosmonauts invited me to a dinner. There was much toasting going on. No women-this was a stag affair, so Valentina was not there. They presented me a very nice shotgun inscribed with my name on the stock-a twelve-gauge double-barrel side-by-side that the U.S. government permitted me to keep.” - Neil Armstrong

  4. Soviet cosmonauts Georgy Beregovoy and Pavel Popovich present an engraved hunting shotgun as a gift to American astronaut Neil Armstrong, the Soviet Union, 1970

    “That night the cosmonauts invited me to a dinner. There was much toasting going on. No women-this was a stag affair, so Valentina was not there. They presented me a very nice shotgun inscribed with my name on the stock-a twelve-gauge double-barrel side-by-side that the U.S. government permitted me to keep.” - Neil Armstrong

  5. 🚨 The Moon is going nuclear.

    NASA's planning a 100kW reactor by 2030 to power future lunar bases.

    ⚔️ Real aim? Beat China + Russia to the Moon and maybe claim "keep-out zones" too.

    Is this progress or a powder keg?

    Sound off. 👇
    🔗 zurl.co/KYcWL

    #Nuclear #NASA #MoonMission #SpaceRace #EnergyDebate

  6. Last one that really needs a mention for #TuneTuesday‘s theme #SciFiSongs is the band Public Service Broadcasting, not metal, but pure prog, utilising real sounds from archived recordings to tell story, this album documents the #SpaceRace including an homage to the fatal incident of #Apollo1. It is a great listen for #spaceNerds and #progNerds alike.

    album.link/nl/i/947928979