One giant leap.

Today is the 16th of June, and today marks the 46th year that a woman went into space. Suffering from nausea in the cramped seat of Vostok 6 (the last Vostok space capsule), Valentina Tereshkova orbited the Earth 48 times in almost three days. With that one flight, she logged more time in space than all the American astronauts before her combined … I find this amusing. She would be the last woman in space for 19 years.

Just thought you might like to know.

Also, in about a month, 40 years will have passed since Neil Armstrong first walked on the Moon. I think that’s pretty cool.

 

The next step towards total cyberization?

The MIT Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces Group has cobbled together several relatively inexpensive and commercially available components to create a constantly reacting interface that might actually be the next big thing. I think it’s pretty cool anyway.