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Too cool: NASA has released a bunch of computer images of various vehicles being built to go back to the Moon. Check out the cutaway view of the Orion Service module:

Cooooooool. I hope they get a chance to actually, y’know, build it. With the way the budget’s going for NASA, and they way they’re cutting back on robotic lunar exploration… well. We’ll see.

Oh, I have to add this. Looking through the images, this one popped up:

I only glanced at it, and I thought, "NASA is building the Flying Spaghetti Monster!"

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You Trekkers out there will be glad to hear that Scotty’s remains have been found. Astronaut Gordon Cooper’s ashes were also in the payload launched into suborbital space back in April, only to have the payload lost in the New Mexico scrub. Weather and the rough terrain kept them from finding anything until now. The link above should have more details later today.

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