On December 22nd 1960, a pair of soviet space explorers - Kometa & Shutka were lost in Siberia after their rocket failed during launch. They weren't equipped to handle the conditions, and nobody expected to find them alive, but in the end they were lucky that the self destruct system and ejection hardware failed. They were recovered alive and one was eventually adopted. Many more details about this mission are on Anatoly Zak's Russian Space Web site: http://www.russianspaceweb.com/vostok-1k-4.html ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGtrdBjFlLc

I took my kids to the Pacific Pinball museum over the weekend and decided I'd collect some video to share. It's all recorded on an iPhone 4, so it's shaky and the sound is awful, but maybe you want to see this anyway. Before Space Invaders and PacMan Pinball machines were the game of choice, and though they were largely displaced new innovative machines continued to be developed to compete with what video games had to offer. The only company still producing new pinball machines is Stern with new tables costing about $6000. (They have a great youtube channel here http://www.youtube.com/user/sternpinballinc ) The museum is in Alameda, California and is open 7 days a week. Entry costs $15 for adults, $7.50 for kids and lets you play all the machines for free, they have over 1,000 in their collection, but only about 100 on display at once. They have a website with their own photos and blogs http://pacificpinball.org ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUYQLQvXF50

Galaxy Trucker is a popular board game which sees players attempting tot throw spacecraft together out of a common pool of parts then racing across the galaxy fighting pirates, evading asteroids and collecting cargo. The creators of the game have adapted this to iOS and Android while adding some features to make one of the best boardgame adaptations to date. The digital version is here: http://www.galaxytrucker.com/ However purists, with friends, might be interested in the physical version: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000XLU8H6/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B000XLU8H6&linkCode=as2&tag=djsnm-20&linkId=5HRBQLVFN4CX3I33 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0m1q4FsVNA

Since we the demo and main game have been updated It's time for me to make my own trailer for Kerbal Space Program Get the game at http://kerbalspaceprogram.com Thanks to Kevin Macleod For the use of his Music 'Spatial Harvest' and to the team at squad for the Kerbal Space Program Theme Tune ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmorOO58KLM