What a day for space junkies!

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There was a really cool lunar eclispe the night of the 20th,

http://weblogs.marylandweather.com/2008/02/eclipse_was_a_hit.html
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the USN shot down a malfunctioning NRO satellite,

http://www.navy.mil/view_single.asp?id=55403
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the Space Shuttle Atlantis from mission STS-122 landed at KSC!

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts122/multimedia/landing/index.html

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and a meteor exploded over Oregon

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/02/080221-oregon-meteor.html

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I grew up in the 1960's & 70's watching and reading about the space race, NASA, Apollo missions and Skylab and yes I honestly expected by now that the US would have an established moonbase as well as manned missions to Mars. I also secretly hoped for my own hovercar by now. Oh well, maybe in the next 30 years.

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