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3-2-1 ... and Liftoff: Manned Space Flights Mark 50th Anniversary

"Three ... 2 ... 1 ...ignition ... and liftoff." With those famous words first heard in Russian and then English, rocket engines burst into life, sending manned vehicles through the extreme "g" forces of vertical acceleration into Earth orbit and into the history books. On this date 20 years apart, two milestones were...

32 Percent of Russians Think the Sun Revolves Around Earth

Does the sun revolve around Earth? Is radioactivity a human invention? Did humans ever live side by side with dinosaurs? A surprising number of people in Russia answered those and other questions with a resounding "yes." A survey published this week by the Russian Public Opinion Research Center targeted scientific...

Space Expert: China UFOs Likely From This World

(July 20) -- UFOs shut down an airport in China's Zhejiang province and turned heads in a major city, but a renowned space expert says the strange lights in the night sky will likely turn out to be more identifiable flying objects. Just days after the Xiaoshan Airport grounded flights due to bizarre lights, China's...

Background on james oberg

James Edward Oberg (born November 7, 1944) (often known as Jim Oberg) is an American space journalist and historian, regarded as an expert on the Russian space program.

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