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Chubby, brunette Eunice Kinnison sat in a rocker, reading the Sunday papers and listening to the radio. Her husband Ralph lay sprawled upon the davenport, smoking a cigarette and reading the current issue of EXTRAORDINARY STORIES against an unheard background of music. Mentally, he was far from Tellus, flitting in his super-dreadnaught through parsec after parsec of vacuous space. E.E. "Doc" Smith, Triplanetary, Chapter 5: "1941"

Wednesday, July 01, 2009

18 Years of Ops

The Ulysses probe, in operation in deep space (observing our star) for eighteen years (!) has "officially" ceased operations.
Posted by Frederick Paul Kiesche III at 09:43
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