A brief history of Japan’s vintage railways
Ordinarily, one does not immediately think of railways when Japan comes to mind. Perhaps the famous bullet train Shinkansen does, but the chugging steam engine is not one of the usual images of tranquility, beauty, giant monsters and flashing blades usually conjured by the Land of the Rising Sun. Yet it does occupy a special…
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Cory Gross - Voyages Extraordinaires
How to spot the space station in the sky
The word from Houston is that NASA managers have settled on April 29th for space shuttle Endeavour’s final launch. That’s timed so that the orbiter can easily chase down the International Space Station and deliver its billion-dollar cargo, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer. Not coincidentally, these shuttle launches also coincide with periods when the ISS repeatedly…
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Kelly Beatty - Popular Science
