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Russia Fails To Get It Up

By on January 9, 2012 in Culture, Odds And Ends, Science
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The Russian Federal Space Agency, frequently referred to as Roscosmos, hasn’t had much luck with interplanetary missions in the past 20 years.  RFSA’s most recent space probe, Phobos-Grunt, has a saga that deviates little from the outcomes of predecessors such as Mars 98. Launched on November 9, 2011, Phobos-Grunt was meant to land on Mars’s […]

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In Space, No One Can See You Drink Your Pee

By on July 13, 2011 in Hardware
Supergirl Getting a Suprise, from Action Comics #377. Copyright DC Comics.

Grossed out yet? Then you may not want to read about the Forward Osmosis Bag. The Forward Osmosis Bag (FOB) system is designed to convert dirty water into a liquid that is safe to drink using a semi-permeable membrane and a concentrated sugar solution. FOB looks at the forward osmosis membrane in a space flight […]

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