The ISS doesn't need the Russian owned segments to carry on, but the Russian and non-Russian 'halves' have been so interconnected for so long the actual disconnecting may cause many failures. From hardware being naturally welded/fused together, to system information interchanges, to the flow of fluids, there could be many unexpected problems for a smooth disconnect. Should be fine after that.

Doesn't get you to Arabia. There are a lot already going through Egypt from Med Sea to Red Sea. It's probably preferred over Israel and the unstable nations around it.

Even better, it is only spilled fuel, kerosene. Falcon 9's lighter fluid is TEA-TEB, a very toxic, self-igniting fluid which creates the green flame when Falcon 9 engines start.

Carter was also an exception, lest we forget the landslide that kicked him out of office.

A current top suspect for initial trigger is solid oxygen in the overwrap around the container causing an explosion by combusting with the overwrap. This would then release the helium explosively and create fire.

Wish I had mod points to give. Cannot fathom why previous poster would think there was no RP-1.

It did not need the payload in place, and they used to do it without the payload on top.

With their experience built up and rocket design finally(?) standardized, they judged the risk to the payload was small enough to be worth saving an extra day or so of work to do the test without the payload. This is the first time a payload was or would have been harmed by a static fire on the pad.

Doing the test without the payload means after the test they have to lower the rocket, bring it back into the building to attach the payload, and then take it back out to the pad and run some more tests of the final integration.

No doubt if he was pardoned like Nixon, someone would use an "officially different" charge once in US control, even though part of the same events.

The Commercial Resupply Services contract is fixed cost and has had SpaceX supply the ISS 7 times already. At $133 million per mission, a traditional NASA cost-plus contract would have cost much more.

The sentence did NOT imply a sitting USA President was in Cuba DURING the revolution. Just like the 1928 visit being the first since independence does not mean one was there when Cuba received independence.

A cryogenic fuel ICBM is terrible for quickly sending a bomb less than 500 km away. South Korea has no one to target beyond that, unlike North Korea who wishes to threaten the much further USA.

However, it is useful for upstaging North Korea who got to orbit first. Like USA using the Moon Landings to upstage the Sputnik and Gagarin achievements.

http://spacenews.com/40719virg...

Given their engine troubles, it is not known if it will reach 100km, and they are not required to.

Peanuts were found in the new world, and do not grow in Europe, so there would be no sickness from them until they were heavily imported after the Americas were discovered. After being introduced, many people may have died without it being diagnosed as "peanut allergy". Only recently have we gotten a lot better about keeping people alive who would have quickly died 1 or 2 hundred years ago.

Though I did read an article recently about babies not being exposed to enough 'things' was causing them to be more vulnerable to related things as they grew older, including peanut products.

the software side has been storing up efficiency improvements for a long time. Just get rid of the extras, like bloatware, and hastily programmed apps, and nobody will notice.

Cherry-pick the best possible cases for the latter among the billions of local stars and one can be found. Huge difference between measuring the solid surface and subsurface composition of a very dimly lit object versus measuring how a very strong light changes when going through a gaseous atmosphere.