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NASA dixit:

“An unpiloted Russian Progress cargo ship re-docked the International Space Station’s Zvezda Service Module after completing a two-day test of an upgraded automated rendezvous system on the Progress. The Kurs rendezvous hardware will be incorporated into Progress cargo vehicles currently under development.”

Credit: NASA/Roscosmos

NASA dixit:

“The SpaceX Dragon cargo craft arrived at the International Space Station April 20, delivering almost 5,000 pounds of scientific experiments and supplies for the Expedition 39 crew. Dragon was launched atop the commercial company’s Falcon 9 rocket April 18 from Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., on the third commercial resupply mission to the station for SpaceX. After a two-day rendezvous to catch up to the orbital laboratory, Dragon was grappled by Expedition 39 Commander Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and NASA Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio and berthed to the Earth-facing port of the Harmony module using the station’s Canadian-built robot arm, where it will remain until it departs the outpost on May 18 for a parachute-assisted return to Earth and a splashdown in the Pacific west of Baja California.”

Credit: NASA

NASA dixit:

“Approximately 2.4 tons of NASA science investigations and cargo were launched to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft. The launch aboard the company’s Falcon 9 rocket took place from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Monday, April 18 at 3:25 p.m. EDT. Dragon’s cargo will support more than 150 experiments that will be conducted during space station Expeditions 39 and 40. Dragon is scheduled to depart the space station May 18 for a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean west of Baja California, bringing with it about 3,500 pounds of science and research, hardware, crew supplies and spacewalk tools from the space station.”

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NASA dixit:

“The SpaceX-3 launch to the International Space Station was scrubbed April 14, 2014 due to a helium leak on the Falcon 9 first stage. The next launch opportunity would be Friday, April 18 at 3:25pm EDT if the issue can be resolved.”

Credit: NASA/SpaceX

Satoshi Nakamoto is a member of a crypto-anarchist organization (Krypt0) that does not exist yet. Far in the future, he is the citizen of a totalitarian Martian federation which eventually tracks down and takes down one by one all of Krypt0’s members; all but one, Satoshi. He has to leave Mars and return to Earth. Once back on Earth, he contacts local underground resistance groups. But the local resistance is more interested in preserving the status quo, and he realizes that a very effective way of fighting the established power is to travel back in time, create Bitcoin, and destroy centralized currencies. An energy smuggler helps him do the jump into the past. He is unaware that members of the Martian opposing factions followed him. More careful about messing with the timeline, they have infiltrated the FBI and other US government agencies in order to erase Bitcoin from existence.

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NASA dixit:

“The Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 is NASA\’s first spacecraft dedicated to studying carbon dioxide in Earth\’s atmosphere. Carbon dioxide is the main human-produced driver of climate change. The Observatory will collect hundreds of thousands of measurements each day, providing a global description of the atmospheric carbon dioxide distribution with unprecedented coverage and resolution. OCO-2 will provide new insights into the sources emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and the processes at Earth\’s surface that absorb this gas.”

Credit: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory