Progress Update on NASA’s Constellation Program [Space]

pobject width=”502″ height=”309″ class=”left gawkerVideo embeddedVideo”param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/Q7lPByc_NxMhl=enfs=1fmt=22″/paramparam name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true”/paramembed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/Q7lPByc_NxMhl=enfs=1fmt=22″ type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowfullscreen=”true” width=”502″ height=”309″ class=”left gawkerVideo”/embed/objectNASA’s Jeffery Hanley went to the US Human Spaceflght Plans committee in Washington to do a show and tell on a href=”http://gizmodo.com/5021748/how-the-new-mission-to-the-moon-will-work”Constellation/a, the space program that will take us to the Moon and Mars. He played this report on its state./p pWhile there are a href=”http://gizmodo.com/5069862/nasas-ares-1-rocket-in-trouble-again-could-crash-into-launch-tower”some naysayers/a who claim that a href=”http://gizmodo.com/367722/orion-crew-test-module-timelapse-build”Orion/a, Ares I and V are not the best option to take us back into ireal/i space exploration, NASA thinks the contrary. The Right Stuff people says that only after three years they are a href=”http://gizmodo.com/5242308/orion-capsule-under-testing-in-anechoic-chamber”already testing actual components/a, and they have all needed hardware and software in various stages of development./p pI tend to believe the folks who took humans to the Moon in record time, only to be shut down just when a href=”http://gizmodo.com/5247705/why-we-need-to-reach-the-stars-and-we-will”the fun started/a. [a href=”http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/hyperbola/2009/06/video-jeff-hanleys-17-june-con.html”Hyperbola/a]/p br clear=”both” style=”clear: [...]

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Michael Jackson Dies, But His Dancing Robots Live On [Music]

pimg src=”http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/04/thriller.jpg” width=”504″ height=”302″ style=”display:block;” /Gawker is reporting that a href=”http://i.gizmodo.com/5154579/gadgets-from-the-michael-jackson-auction-from-robot-heads-to-peter-pan-golf-carts”Michael Jackson/a has died. No, this is not gadgety, other than the fact that emThriller/em was my a href=”http://gizmodo.com/5215656/my-first-album”first album/a. OK, that’s not gadgety either. [a href=”http://gawker.com/5302671/michael-jackson-medical-emergency”Gawker/a]/p pobject width=”502″ height=”309″ class=”left gawkerVideo embeddedVideo”param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/4kBeD1L_nd4hl=enfs=1fmt=22″ param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true” embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/4kBeD1L_nd4hl=enfs=1fmt=22″ type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowfullscreen=”true” width=”502″ height=”309″ class=”left gawkerVideo”/object/p br clear=”both” style=”clear: both;”/
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Original post by Brian Lam

Michael Jackson Dies [Music]

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Original post by Brian Lam

Windows 7: Cheaper Than Vista (and Every Other Windows OS) [Microsoft]

pimg src=”http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/06/Windows_Pricing_top.jpg” width=”500″ height=”249″ style=”display:block;” /It turns out, even if you don’t weigh in all the a href=”http://gizmodo.com/5302371/windows-7-pricing-good-news-mostly”slightly confusing Windows 7 upgrade deals/a, Microsoft’s latest OS is its least expensive to date, and a ireal bargain/i compared to Vista./p pLooking at full (non-upgrade) pricing of consumer Windows editions really tells the story: When you compare sticker prices, you can see that most editions hovered around the $200 mark, with a rare spike found in the $260 Vista Home Premium. When you adjust for inflation, that fairly regular pricing becomes a downward cascademdash;except for that Vista price hike./p pimg src=”http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/06/Windows_Pricing_since_1995.jpg” width=”804″ height=”415″ style=”display:block;float:none;” //p pThe pro versions of Windows, starting with NT, tell the same story. $320 across the board, with a dip when XP Pro followed quickly on the heels of Windows 2000. But when you calculate for inflation, it’s just a smooth downward curve./p pimg src=”http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/06/Windows_Pricing_Chart_1995-2009.jpg” width=”800″ height=”293″ style=”display:block;float:none;” [...]

Original post by Wilson Rothman

Oven Re-Constructed Flips an Oven Up On Your Cooktop [Kitchen]

pimg src=”http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/06/oven-reconnected.jpg” width=”468″ height=”464″ style=”display:block;” /This clever oven concept is flat, creating a closed-in space for baking by folding up sections of its surface./p pThe a class=”autolink” title=”Click here to read more posts tagged OVEN RE-CONSTRUCTED” href=”http://gizmodo.com/tag/oven-re_constructed/”Oven Re-Constructed/a works as a normal cooktop, but when you want to back something, you can fold up its sections to create an oven sitting right on top of the surface. How exactly it works is not clear thanks to the standard vagaries of concept designs, but it’s certainly an interesting take on an appliance that hasn’t seen much innovation in a while.[a href=”http://www.yankodesign.com/2009/06/24/the-oven-re-constructed/”gt;Yanko Design via a href=”http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2009/06/oven_re-constructed.html”Ubergizmo/a]/p br clear=”both” style=”clear: both;”/
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Original post by Adam Frucci