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To: pcstel who wrote (145431)	8/29/2014 11:50:16 PM
From: pcstel	Respond to of 149319

OT Here is another shot of the Space Shuttle performing the roll program at 1:44. youtube.com The Russians simply spin the rocket on a turntable on the launch pad to achieve the same result. On a competitive note.. The Soyuz has the highest safety record now the only human rated rocket, which still operates on mostly 1965 technology. It is currently the cheapest format for humans to space with a cost of ~70MM per launch. Comparable cost with the Space Shuttle, which were debated, but came somewhere in the area of 1.4 Billion per launch. PCSTEL

To: pcstel who wrote (145431)	8/30/2014 9:27:07 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 149319

We went to the moon. IIRC, we got bored and left our car there, just in case we go back. The Russians have yet to go to the moon. "Most of our rocket technology came from...... Russians that the US brought to the US after WW2." Those Russians were Germans. en.wikipedia.org Russia also had a bunch of Germans. russianspaceweb.com - The Soviet manned lunar programs were a series of programs pursued by the Soviet Union to land a man on the Moon in competition with the United States Apollo program to achieve the same goal set publicly by President John F. Kennedy on May 25, 1961. The Soviet government publicly denied participating in such a competition, but secretly pursued two programs in the 1960s: manned lunar flyby missions using Soyuz 7K-L1 (Zond) spacecraft launched with the UR-500K (Proton) rocket, and a manned lunar landing using Soyuz 7K-L3 and LK Lander spacecraft launched with the N1 rocket. Following the dual American successes of the first manned lunar orbit on December 24–25, 1968 ( Apollo 8) and the first Moon landing on July 20, 1969 ( Apollo 11), and a series of catastrophic N1 failures, both Soviet programs were eventually brought to an end: the Proton / Zond program was canceled in 1970, and the N1 / L3 program was terminated de facto in 1974 and officially canceled in 1976. Details of both Soviet programs were kept secret until 1990, when the government allowed them to be published under the policy of glasnost. en.wikipedia.org

To: pcstel who wrote (145431)	8/30/2014 12:11:25 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149319

Woman Dies While Napping in Car Between Jobs Maria Fernandes apparently overwhelmed by carbon monoxide, gas fumes By Evann Gastaldo, Newser Staff Posted Aug 29, 2014 7:34 AM CDT (Newser) – Maria Fernandes pulled into a Wawa parking lot Monday morning to take a nap between jobs—the 32-year-old Newark, NJ, woman had four of them—but she left her car running as she slept. Eight hours later, she was found dead in the car, apparently overwhelmed by carbon monoxide and fumes from a gas can that had overturned, police say. Fernandes, who sometimes finished an overnight shift at 6am and napped in her car before heading to her next shift, kept the gas in her car because she sometimes ran out. She had been saving money, a co-worker says, and had just recently purchased the Kia Sportage in which she died. Before that, she got from job to job via buses and trains, the Star-Ledger reports. Monday was the first day of work she'd ever missed, the New York Daily News reports. "This sounds like someone who tried desperately to work and make ends meet, and met with a tragic accident," a police lieutenant tells the Star-Ledger. A co-worker agrees, telling the paper, "She used to work like three shifts every day. Sometimes she wouldn't sleep for five days." Authorities were called to the scene at 3:51pm after someone noticed Fernandes in the car, and when emergency workers got inside—all the windows and doors had been closed—they noticed a chemical odor. Though Fernandes' official cause of death has yet to be determined, police do not suspect foul play. (Last year, a teen whose brother left her sleeping in a car before school also died tragically.) newser.com