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The Raging Sandwich

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  1. I normally name mine after real life spacecraft or mythology figures. Examples from my game are: Orion (Upper stage), Castor and Pollux (twin boosters), Cygnus (booster).

    Also, I name some of my manned spacecraft "potato" in different languages, such as "Ziemniak" (Polish) or "Brambor" (Czechoslovakian). 

  2. Since Pluto has a thin atmosphere, why shouldn't Eeloo?

    If there could be one, I would suggest a really thin one, thin enough where you can't just land by parachute, or thin enough that you can still see stars from the surface.

    Anyways, still a suggestion. Also, isn't there a mod that adds one? It would still be nice in the stock game.

  3. March 27, cont.

    1969: Mariner 7 was launched. It was to flyby Mars on August 5. Numerous problems like antenna failure occurred but most were fixed. The encounter began on August 2. It reached closest approach of 2,131 miles on August 5. A total of 126 pictures of Mars were transmitted back to Earth.

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    1972: Venera 8 was launched to Venus. It entered Venus' atmosphere on July 22. Aerobraking reduced the speed drastically and the spacecraft landed on the surface by parachute. Data was transmitted and recieved 50 minutes after landing.

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    1989: Contact was lost with the Phobos 2 spacecraft. It was to release 2 landers onto Mars' moon Phobos, but could not as a result of the lost contact. It successfully entered Mars orbit on January 29.

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    1992: James Webb, the NASA Administrator throughout most of the Space Race, died.

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    2008: STS-123 and its crew of 7 landed back at Earth.

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    2015: Soyuz TMA-16M and its crew of 3 launched into orbit. In the crew was Scott Kelly and Mikhail Korniyenko, who were supposed to spend around a year aboard the ISS. The spacecraft landed back at Earth on September 12.

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  4. March 25

    1655: Christiaan Huygens discovered Saturn's moon Titan.

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    1922: Robert Goddard conducted the first functional test of a liquid-fuel rocket. It had a total of 4 lbs of thrust.

    1928: James Lovell, Jr. was born. He flew on Gemini 7, Gemini 12, Apollo 8, and Apollo 13. Spaceflight achievements were being in the first crew to rendezvous in space and the first crew to orbit the Moon.

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    1961: Korabl-Sputnik 5 was launched. It carried with it the dog Zvezdochka and mannequin Ivan Ivanovich. Ivanovich was ejected from the capsule and was recovered safely. Zvezdochka was also recovered safely with the capsule.

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    1992: Soyuz TM-13 and its crew of 3 landed back at Earth.

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    1996: Comet Hyakutake did a close flyby of Earth, coming within .1 AU.Image result for comet hyakutake earth flyby 1996

    2002: Shenzhou 3 was launched after a 3 month delay. It carried with it a dummy that replicated human conditions. It was launched successfully into orbit. The spacecraft landed back at Earth on April 1.

    2014: Soyuz TMA-12M and its crew of 3 launched into orbit on a mission to the ISS. It docked to the station on March 27. The crew undocked on September 10 and landed the next day.

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    March 26

    2009: Soyuz TMA-14 and its crew of 3 launched into orbit on a mission to the ISS.

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    March 27

    1968: The first man in space and in orbit Yuri Gagarin died along with his instructor pilot Sergin. He was on a training flight on a MiG-15 after being accepted back into flight service when it crashed.

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    More coming tomorrow...

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