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This high speed Delta RC aircraft was displayed by Carl at Mather Aerospace Modelers in Sacramento, CA.

Let me just add that this was the most difficult thing to follow that I have ever filmed. Never a dull moment trying to find it in the viewfinder. Thanks Carl!

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Gridkeeper Music channel http://www.youtube.com/gridkeepermusic Latest audio release from Gridkeeper – Moon Transmissions e.p. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Moon-Transmissions-e-p/dp/B0029BTYAU/ref=sr_f3_1?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1242155027&sr=103-1
Moon filmed using a 12″ meade LX90 telescope. More detail here http://www.youtube.com/gridkeepermusic
This is Rima Hadley the Apollo 15 Landing Site. The newer films of this from 2009 are much much clearer. Astrophotography by htp://www.youtube.com/johnlenardwalson audio by http://www.youtube.com/gridkeeper

Re-inventing the wheel: India’s moon mission justified?
Pallavi Paul / CNN-IBN
Published on Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 16:57 in Sci-Tech section
New Delhi: Half of one billion Indians earn less than Rs 18 a day — not enough to buy one square meal a day. Yet, we’ve just spent Rs 386 crore to send a metal box to the moon. Why?

It’s not just the civics, it’s also the science. There have already been 67 moon missions till date. Man has landed, photographed and even taken samples from the moon. So, why are we re-inventing the wheel?

I’m not sure if I can justify that the scientific part of this mission is truly outstanding, Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, H Mukunda says.

Chandrayaan is the cheapest moon mission ever. The money spent on it is less than the price of a Boeing 747, less than one-tenth the price of telecast rights to the Indian Premier League, and just 4 per cent of ISRO’s budget for three years.

What do we get in the bargain:

The first three-dimensional map of the entire moon

X-ray data unraveling what lies beneath the surface

Proof of existence of water

A look at whether humans can make a home there

Likelihood of finding alternative sources of energy

We know that moon has Helium 3, which could provide energy to the earth for trillions of year, chairman, ISRO, K Kasturirangan says.

But thats not all. Space launches also mean big business.

Antrix Corporation, ISRO’s commercial wing, raked in Rs 900 crore last year, launching sixteen foreign satellites in the past two years and selling remote sensing data from our own satellites.

Destination Moon
Chandrayaan is now 2,67,000 km away from the moon. On November 3, it will be pushed to 384,000 km and five days later, it would finally enter the moon’s orbit.
But why does it need to orbit earth so long? ISRO’s using the earth’s gravity to fling the craft further and further away. Tiny Chandrayaan has only 819 kg of fuel on board, not enough for a straight-out trek to the moon.
link to above article: http://ibnlive.in.com/news/reinventing-the-wheel-indias-moon-mission-justified/77071-11.html

India’s moon mission
By William Hobson
Last updated: Tue 11th Nov 2008 at 11:22
Photo by: Luke Simmonds
The first Indian space mission to the moon blasted off last Wednesday morning without a hitch. The Chandrayaan 1 spacecraft is an unmanned probe on a two year mission to explore our largest natural satellite.

The Chandrayaan 1 weighs about 1.5 tonnes, and will carry a £45m price tag by the time the mission finishes.

The Indian Space Agency (ISRO) hopes to complete a 3D atlas of the lunar surface, as well as search for a variety of rare elements, and confirm or deny the long-hoped for presence of water below the surface.

The mission probe will carry instruments from NASA and the European Space Agency as well as the ISRO.

Comparisons with China’s achievement last month of successfully carrying out an independent space walk have come from many sources, with references made to an ‘Asian space race’.

China, Japan and India have all set a target date of at least 2025 for a manned mission to the moon, and even smaller powers such as South Korea have ambitious plans for space programmes.

This expansion of the space exploration effort to Eastern powers stands in contrast to the situation in the western nations; previously this month the European Space Agency delayed its flagship ExoMars project due to budget concerns, and in the US the future of NASA has come under question over similar concerns in the current economic crisis.

India has set itself a target of 2015 for a manned space mission to rival China’s. However the ISRO has come under strong domestic and foreign criticism as a target for misuse of badly needed public funds, in a country where 800 million people live on less than $2 a day.
link to above article
http://www.upsu.net/news/news/science/2008/10/30/indias-moon-mission-3729.html

So wouldn’t it be interesting if a space agency other than Nasa took pictures of the apollo flag and other bits and pieces. Would this prove that nasa landed men on the moon? No it wouldn’t prove , just open up more questions. Grid.

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Trelleborg Sealing Solutions, 2531 Bremer Road, Ft. Wayne, IN 46803 (843) 747-7656
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Trelleborg Sealing Solutions, 2531 Bremer Road, Ft. Wayne, IN 46803 (843) 747-7656
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Canadian Search and Rescue helicopter coming in for a slow landing on an unprepared landing site.

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