Adelaide Fringe 2011
Rocket Town opens to emotional reviews
Rocket Town a play by Emily Steel opened last night at the 2011 Adelaide fringe to I believe a full house. The play based on the experiences of two "teenagers" growing up in remote outback town explores their troubles and joys and worries living in such a transient town.
Dee Easton plays the part of Jess,she has been in the town for 2 years and has just discovered that the family will not be returning to the city.
Sam Calleja plays Josh, he is new to town and excited by its prospects and stars.
Audience members have been Tweeting and reporting on FaceBook this morning about their surprise at the detail and hidden knowledge portrayed in the play.
"It was like I was in a time warp", one commented. Feeling that the play had transported her back to the time she had lived in the town of Woomera, South Australia.
To gain that level of detail Emily traveled to Woomera and spent the time to chat with some of the current locals. Returning with the cast so they could also absorb that "Woomerite feel".
http://www.rockettown.info/
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Thursday, June 10, 2010
Welcome Home Hayabusa
Hayabusa - which means “Falcon” in Japanese - was launched from the Kagoshima Space Centre in Japan on May 9, 2003.
It is an unmanned spacecraft operated by the Japanese Space Exploration Agency (JAXA) that has travelled to the asteroid "Itokawa" landing in Sep 2005. Hayabusa hopefully collected samples from the asteroid although this is unsure, Scientists are awaiting to see if this phase was completed correctly by visual inspection.
At last report From JAXA, Hayabusa was at 1,142,550 km from the earth (Friday 11th @ 0900h). The Hayabusa will release its cargo, a small re-entry pod or sample return capsule, at 40,000 km from the earth. Protected from the high temperature during re-entry with a new version of shielding it will then jetison that shield. It will then slow its decent by parachute to touch down in the WPA.
The capsule is due to arrive close to midnight Sunday the 13th of June and is now due to land in the Woomera protected area (WPA) in Northern South Australia.
Weather permitting the Woomera Observatory and many others will be attempting to capture this moment in history on various media.
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