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Space Debris

2 March 2009

I recently watched a program about space and NASA and was amazed to discover that the space agencies are tracking over 8,000 items of space debris orbiting the planet! Thinking about it, that sort of makes sense given the decades of space launches and old and broken satellites, but it was the imagery of the [...]

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Booo… ESA Rejected my Astronaut Application

24 July 2008

ESA hate me: Dear Mr McNulty, On behalf of the European Space Agency, I wish to thank you for your application and interest in joining the European Astronaut Corps. I regret to inform you that after very careful consideration, it has been decided not to retain your application for the post of Astronaut. However, should [...]

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