Future Iranian Satellite Launches
Iran has outlined an ambitious space plan for the coming years. While a lot of conflicting information has been reported, here is our current understanding of the program.
Last week, the head of the Iranian Space Agency, Hamid Fazeli, announced that Iran would be launching two more satellites, the Fajr and Navid satellites in the next year, and that Kavoshgar 5 (Explorer 5), a 285 kg space capsule, would carry animals into space on a suborbital trajectory.
All Things Nuclear: Details on Fukushima: Info from INPO →
Last Friday the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO) released a detailed timeline of events at Fukushima in the days following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, titled “Special Report on the Nuclear Accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station.”
The report doesn’t…
TODAY IN RAGNAROK: Part THE END of A Song of Ice and Mangold.
THAT IS ALL, except: please say hello on TOUR.
That is all.
LIFE CLASSIC: Rock Stars and Their Parents
Photos by John Olson“They had fame, reams of money, and fans willing to do wild, unmentionable things just to breathe the same air — but in 1971, LIFE illustrated a different side of rock stars: Just like most of us mere mortals, they came from humble backgrounds, with moms and dads who bragged and worried about them every day. Assigned to take portraits of the artists at home with their sweetly square folks, photographer John Olson traveled everywhere from the suburbs of London to Brooklyn to the San Francisco Bay Area, capturing in his work the love that bridged any cultural divide that may have existed between his subjects.”
(via Miss Moss)
Here are some photos from Peace Corps Volunteers to get you ready for the big game tonight!
Red carpet arrivals to Funny Thing 2010, held at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City on Saturday, November 13.
