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• Historical ref (Hoover)
• Cultural ref-1 (Monty Python, Lumberjack sketch)
• Cultural ref-2 (Monty Python’s Life of Brian, I-want-to-be-a-woman scene)
• Reminder: Refs added for young whippersnappers who “ain’t got no culture” yet
Stuff That’s Hard to Do (Japan’s H3 Maiden Launch)
Second stage failed to ignite
• Story
• Pretty video of boost phase and gut-wrenching deathwatch as data shows speed dropping after booster shutdown until word that the destruct command was sent
(What? Submitted as another example of why “space is hard to do”)
______Horror Story
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• Story
• Picked up by Pookie’s Toons
What am I?
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• Story
• Picked up by Pookie’s Toons
______Stuff That’s Hard to Do (Threefer)
STARLINK from Vandenberg
(Bullseye on a sunny California Friday with great views of Mother Earth as well as the space-geek stuff)
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