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posted by janrinok on Saturday July 11 2015, @10:40PM   Printer-friendly
from the for-that-lighter-moment dept.

In the early 1960s, the US began setting up deep-space tracking stations in Australia. Doug Rickard found himself tracking missions to Mars and the moon. Friendly scientific rivalry and those small but spectacular mistakes in space exploration made for a rich episode in Doug's life. These are stories from his memoirs.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 12 2015, @01:44PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 12 2015, @01:44PM (#208141)

    Fifty years later, how do you point the finger to the nuclear tests as the source of his cancer?

    It is an interesting link for a story submission, but I had to check to make sure you didn't have a typo. The link and memoir really is almost 15 years old.

  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Monday July 13 2015, @08:21PM

    by Freeman (732) on Monday July 13 2015, @08:21PM (#208632) Journal

    At least in America there were studies on cancer and mortality rates of those who participated in the Bikini Atoll Atomic Bomb Tests. There was an increase in cancer rates and mortality rates of veterans who participated in the tests compared to a control group of non-veterans. It's no surprise that the British and / or Australians did as well.

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