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Arizona Penny Dreadfuls
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Here's a master list of all the fandom conventions happening in Arizona in 2016, courtesy of the Arizona Penny Dreadfuls. Event and venue links will take you to their respective official websites. Address links will take you to those locations on Google Maps. As an archived page for a previous year, not all links may remain valid. If you check out any of these conventions, please tell them the Arizona Penny Dreadfuls sent you! Friday 15th to Sunday 17th. 263 N Center St, Mesa, AZ 85201. Laughing Moon Con...
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Living a Second Life: February 2009
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Living a Second Life. After spontaneously becoming self-aware (I am a sub-atomic particle that escaped from Fermilab) I found myself lost in the midst of all-that-is. I found shelter within the world of Second Life. Here I will log my experiences as a self-aware being in this world. Saturday, February 21, 2009. Hello everyone. Pluton here to tell you about the Tiny Moonraker rocket building competition held at Space Frontier earlier today. 160;But not for long. The tinies were bundles of chaot...The ro...
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Space Blog Alpha: SpaceX Delay Prompted by Simulation Results
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Saturday, January 21, 2012. SpaceX Delay Prompted by Simulation Results. Although the debut commercial flight of the SpaceX Dragon to the International Space Station has been postponed from the slated Feb. 7 launch date, ITWire.com is reporting that the capsule which is now expected to fly no sooner than late March has arrived at the Kennedy Space Center. CBS News reported on January 20 that Alan Lindenmoyer, manager of the commercial cargo program at the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, had ...
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Arizona Penny Dreadfuls | Arizona Fandom History
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Because nobody else has done it and because, as Arizona fans who work many of these conventions, we want to refer to this information ourselves, here's an area of the AZPD site dedicated to all the fandom events that Arizona has hosted over the years. If you have corrections, can fill in gaps or have PDF files of program books, please e-mail us. If you're looking for events happening this year, we maintain dedicated pages for them too. Click here for Arizona Conventions in 2017. These cons are active.
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Space Blog Alpha: December 2011
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Thursday, December 29, 2011. SpaceX Postpones Secondary Satellite Launch. SpaceX had opted not to piggyback the launch of two small communication satellites with the crucial and potentially historic launch in February of the first commercial cargo flight to the International Space Station. SpaceX will fully verify the mission performance on the COTS mission and focus on the successful berthing of the Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station," the release says. TO READ MORE CLICK HERE. Posting...
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Space Blog Alpha: Russian Space Official Speculates on Anti-Satellite Attack on Probe
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012. Russian Space Official Speculates on Anti-Satellite Attack on Probe. As the clock ticks down to the expected uncontrolled re-entry on Saturday of Russia’s failed Phobos-Grunt spacecraft, a leading Russian space official has interjected the possibility that the craft may have been disabled by an orbiting anti-satellite weapon. Popovkin has also recently claimed that radar emissions from a facility in Alaska, presumably HAARP, may have damaged the craft. Mr Popovkin’s rem...
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Space Blog Alpha: MSL Trajectory Maneuver Planned for Jan. 11
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Sunday, January 08, 2012. MSL Trajectory Maneuver Planned for Jan. 11. The Mars Science Laboratory is getting ready to make some moves. Already about 75 million miles from Earth on its 352-million mile journey to Mars, the spacecraft is slated to perform a series of thruster firings on January 11 which will leave the MSL’s Curiosity Rover on a more precise course for its planned August landing at Gale Crater. We are well into cruise operations, with a well-behaved spacecraft safely on its way to Mars," s...
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Space Blog Alpha: ESA Cargo Mission Progresses Toward March Liftoff
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Saturday, January 07, 2012. ESA Cargo Mission Progresses Toward March Liftoff. While the eyes of many space observers are focused on the upcoming historic launch of a SpaceX Dragon on the first commercial cargo delivery mission to the International Space Station, slated for Feb. 7, at least one other cargo mission is set to rendezvous with the station. Over the next few months. According to the Arianespace website:. The latest ATV is named after Italian physicist Edoardo Amaldi and will carry an estimate...
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Space Blog Alpha: February 2012
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Sunday, February 12, 2012. NASA eyes establishing orbiting lunar outpost. Cue the Pink Floyd because NASA may be turning their lunar attention toward the establishment of an orbital station parked above the dark side of the moon, in a region of space known as the Earth-Moon libration point 2. NASA hopes to assess the value of establishing a “human-tended waypoint,” near the far side of the moon that would join international partnerships along with commercial and academic participants. Multiuse or reusabl...
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Space Blog Alpha: NASA's Kepler Misson Reveals New Planetary Systems
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Thursday, January 26, 2012. NASA's Kepler Misson Reveals New Planetary Systems. NASA's Kepler mission has continued to advance our knowledge of planetary systems with the recent discovery of 11 new systems hosting 26 confirmed planets. With the latest data now released by NASA the total number of planets revealed by Kepler has nearly doubled, and the number of stars known to have more than one planet that passes before their host star has tripled. According to a NASA press release:. Each of the new confi...
