In September 1966, NASA launched its second Surveyor spacecraft to study the surface of the moon. Unfortunately, it crash-landed on the lunar surface, but that’s not the end of Surveyor 2’s story. In October 1967 the capsule had been salvaged. But instead of delivering the Surveyor spacecraft to a museum in Texas, the U.S. government decided to repurpose the crash site for use in storing space junk. As it turns out, NASA held one of the Surveyor 2 craft in a warehouse in Cape Canaveral in 1976.
But in 1997 the rubbish slid off and smacked into the surface of the moon. Now astronauts can’t stand to look at it. And so it sits in a warehouse in Cape Canaveral.
This piece of debris (which scientists call an Apollo heavy lift stage) is about the size of a dinner plate.
NASA has a post that contains some background on how the Neil Armstrong module was recovered from the moon.
The taxi industry is facing another thwarted launch of holographic taxi recruitment services, this time in China's capital, Beijing.
They're often called piggyback services — like the taxi strikes in London last year — because a driver shares the cab with someone who looks like a passenger.
A driver with the name Lucy offers as a passenger more credibility and safety than a neophyte who takes a taxi "with a military hat", the taxi driver's boss in London told BBC Reporting.
The piggyback technology came to light in April when one of the drivers in the experiment in Peking introduced himself as John, and the transport authority including several microphone bugs in the taxi.
The Transport Ministry is now reviewing the pilot production, but authorities are worried that the sighting of microphones could let a passenger pose as a driver so that they can double their fare.
Image caption Brother and sister Lucy Zhang, left, and her husband says the pilot was a flop
Meanwhile, copies of real stories and reports are circulating about the failure of the Chinese pilot. Taxi driver Zhang Gao, from Shengsi in central China, took a taxi with a pork smell in his cab.
Another driver raised the possibility that it was a passenger disguised in the driver's uniform. The scam might even be legal.
Image caption A man described how he was driving a taxi with painted windows and 7.5 litre engines
Authorities in the capital did not comment on the pilot. But Liu Lei, deputy director of Beijing's Public Security Bureau, said the driver operated without the necessary licence, continuing to register at several different places.
"If this type of activity continues, we will take prudent actions in order to
But in 1997 the rubbish slid off and smacked into the surface of the moon. Now astronauts can’t stand to look at it. And so it sits in a warehouse in Cape Canaveral.
This piece of debris (which scientists call an Apollo heavy lift stage) is about the size of a dinner plate.
NASA has a post that contains some background on how the Neil Armstrong module was recovered from the moon.
The taxi industry is facing another thwarted launch of holographic taxi recruitment services, this time in China's capital, Beijing.
They're often called piggyback services — like the taxi strikes in London last year — because a driver shares the cab with someone who looks like a passenger.
A driver with the name Lucy offers as a passenger more credibility and safety than a neophyte who takes a taxi "with a military hat", the taxi driver's boss in London told BBC Reporting.
The piggyback technology came to light in April when one of the drivers in the experiment in Peking introduced himself as John, and the transport authority including several microphone bugs in the taxi.
The Transport Ministry is now reviewing the pilot production, but authorities are worried that the sighting of microphones could let a passenger pose as a driver so that they can double their fare.
Image caption Brother and sister Lucy Zhang, left, and her husband says the pilot was a flop
Meanwhile, copies of real stories and reports are circulating about the failure of the Chinese pilot. Taxi driver Zhang Gao, from Shengsi in central China, took a taxi with a pork smell in his cab.
Another driver raised the possibility that it was a passenger disguised in the driver's uniform. The scam might even be legal.
Image caption A man described how he was driving a taxi with painted windows and 7.5 litre engines
Authorities in the capital did not comment on the pilot. But Liu Lei, deputy director of Beijing's Public Security Bureau, said the driver operated without the necessary licence, continuing to register at several different places.
"If this type of activity continues, we will take prudent actions in order to
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