What Planet Was First to be Viewed With a Telescope

 

You know by now that my humor tends to be a bit off color:

Case in point is from Elite Facts.  They report that the very first planet to be viewed with a telescope was Uranus, 

Think about it for a bit......

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Mark has been talking about CBS dropping Super Girl, which has become a fast favorite.  There was hope that CW, which it did, would pick the program up (The CW is co-owned by CBS and Warner Brothers)

The announcement went out Thursday the 19th of May and the Super girl series will begin with the start of the 2016 continuing into the 2017 prime

time season.

Super Girl will play Monday 8:00-9:00 PM 

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Another Canadian heading to the International Space Station - in a Russian spacecraft

The Canadian Space Agency (CSA), announced that Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques has been assigned to a six-month mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS), aka Mission 58/59

This is Saint-Jacques' first mission. He'll launch aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket in November 2018 to join an international crew. This marks the 17th space flight for the Canadian Astronaut Corps.

Before joining the Canadian Space Program, Saint-Jacques was a medical doctor and Co-chief of Medicine at Inuulitsivik Health Centre in Puvirnituq, Nunavik, an Inuit community on Hudson Bay. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Family Medicine at McGill University

The Quebec native will bring his expertise in medicine, engineering and astrophysics to the Expedition 58/59 crew. In anticipation of this first assignment, he'll begin mission training in Russia, Japan, the United States and Canada starting this Summer.

015 Nebula awards have been released.

From IO9    The 2015 Nebula awards have been released.  There  were a healthy mix of  print and digital.  What's more the awards were dominated by women this year. 

from the article

The science fiction world has had its share of drama with the Hugo Awards as various slates have worked aggressively to push against the growing numbers of women and people of color appearing on award ballots. The Nebula Awards have demonstrated, for two years in a row, that science fiction and fantasy literature remains a strong, inclusive body of literature.

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Novel

    Uprooted, Naomi Novik  
    Raising Caine, Charles E. Gannon 
    The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemisin   
    Ancillary Mercy, Ann Leckie
    The Grace of Kings, Ken Liu
    Barsk: The Elephants’ Graveyard, Lawrence M. Schoen   
    Updraft, Fran Wilde 

Novella

    Binti, Nnedi Okorafor
    Wings of Sorrow and Bone, Beth Cato   
    The Bone Swans of Amandale, C.S.E. Cooney  
    The New Mother, Eugene Fischer
    The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn, Usman T. Malik
    Waters of Versailles’’, Kelly Robson



Novelette
  
    Our Lady of the Open Road, Sarah Pinsker
    Rattlesnakes and Men, Michael Bishop
    And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead, Brooke Bolander
    Grandmother-nai-Leylit’s Cloth of Winds, Rose Lemberg
    The Ladies’ Aquatic Gardening Society, Henry Lien
    The Deepwater Bride, Tamsyn Muir


Short Story

    Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers, Alyssa Wong
    Madeleine, Amal El-Mohtar
    Cat Pictures Please, Naomi Kritzer
    Damage, David D. Levine
    When Your Child Strays From God, Sam J. Miller
    Today I Am Paul, Martin L. Shoemaker

SpaceX Dragon Prepared to be Unloaded

Remember that SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft
which splashed down in the Pacific Ocean at

2:51 p.m. EDT Wednesday, May 11, about 261

 miles southwest of Long Beach, California  

Seems the Dragon brought back a heafty load.

3,700 pounds of NASA cargo, science and technology demonstration samples from the International Space Station.

The first destination for the Dragon will be taken by ship to Long Beach where some cargo will be removed and returned to NASA.Then prepared for shipment to SpaceX's test facility in McGregor, Texas, for processing.

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