Hungaria still has the best windoze-virus-writers, even better at writing Linux-open-src-software.
Additionally some very good Nokia factories, within shouting distance of their R*D departments.
mplayerhq.hu
Ouch, the way they have fun with their software..
after they were where that reliable, more reliable than a Kalashinikov, software for the extremely succesfull fully Soyuz program, not the regular shit of the shuttle-hubble-stuff.
nytimes.com
The Long Countdown
For U.S. Astronauts, a Russian Second Home, James Hill for The New York Times
The centrifuge at Star City is large enough for people to ride in and subjects them to high G-forces such as those experienced during spacecraft launches and re-entries.
STAR CITY, Russia — Garrett Reisman was on his way to this formerly secret military base for several weeks of training, making his way through Kennedy Airport, when his cellphone rang. It was his boss, Steven W. Lindsey, the head of NASA’s astronaut office.
David Corcoran, a science editor, explores some of the topics addressed in this week’s Science Times.
Cosmonaut Yuri Lonchakov and astronaut Mike Fincke took part in a simulation exercise at a training center in Star City.
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“Come back to Houston. They’ve canceled your training — they’re playing hardball,” |
