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Astronauts and Cosmonauts - the Roll of Honour
This Entry honours the brave souls who paid the ultimate price in attempting to push the boundaries of space exploration.
Author: Galaxy Babe
Von Braun to Musk: A Short History of Space Pranks
Rocket scientists, engineers, and astro/cosmonauts are a bunch of jolly jokers. They're way funnier than those people you watch on television. We'll prove it.
Author: Dmitri Gheorgheni
Topical: Apollo 11
Apollo 11 was launched on 16 July, 1969 and Neil Armstrong walked on the Moon four days later.
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What does independence mean to you, personally? How do you exercise your independence? More importantly, does this need for independence clash with that other need, the need to belong to a group? What independence are you willing to sacrifice in order to be part of something else? We want to know how you deal with this issue.
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