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Announcing Exodus: Proxima Centauri - the Digital Edition!

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It's Snowmen vs ??? in this upcoming holiday update for RK's The Confrontation!

Now available! Variant Mode DLC for Reiner Knizia’s The Confrontation features 18 all new characters and 4 new special cards. The power level of both sides has equalized, with stronger Light characters and more tactical Shadow minions.

As Light, your goal is to guide the crown (King) to the Stronghold. As Shadow, your goal remains largely unchanged, seek out and destroy the crown or lay siege to the Capital with three denizens of Shadow. Variant mode also introduces another way for Shadow to win: guide the Doombringer to the Capital!

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/reiner-knizias-confrontation/id1060966051?mt=8

Working on a spoooooky Halloween update!

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SpaceX has landed its Falcon 9 rocket for the sixth time in the last eight months.

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More photos of AV-067 being installed on its launch platform, August 11, 2016. AV-067 will launch NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission September 8.

The vehicle’s Centaur Upper Stage and single Solid Rocket Motor will be installed later this week.

P/c: Dante Lauretta.

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“Dwarven Bodyguard” allows the Light player to retreat backwards or sideways at the beginning of battle.

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“Binding Curse”, one of the upcoming special cards for the Variant DLC...

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July 20, 1976 - Viking 1 makes first Martian landing.

Paving the way for generations of Martian landers and orbiters, NASA’s Viking 1 mission became the first spacecraft to safely land on the Red Planet’s surface on this day in 1976. Following launch on a Titan IIIE rocket, Viking’s 10-month cruise to Mars culminated in orbit insertion on June 19. Landing was initially planned for the United State’s Bicentennial on July 4, 1976, but initial reconnaissance of the landing site proved to be too rough for the spacecraft. Landing was delayed to July 20th at Chryse Planitia. Two 1,270 pound landers complimented two orbiters as part of NASA’s Viking program. Viking 1 launched on August 20, 1975 and landed on July 20, 1976, while Viking 2 launched on September 9, 1975 and landed on September 3, 1976.

The first photograph ever taken from the surface of Mars showing one of Viking 1′s landing pads. Viking’s science instruments provided the first in-situ, or ground based observations of Martian seismic, atmospheric, and chemical activity. Since the biological compatibility of Mars’ surface was completely unknown at the time, both Viking landers carried instruments to directly test of organic life. Of the four, three instruments returned negative results while one returned a positive result. This discrepancy was first attributed to the chemical reactions of inorganic compounds in the Martian soil, but has been disputed in recent years as data from other Martian missions has been analyzed.

Viking 1 far outlasted its designed operational lifetime of 90 days, transmitting data until November 11, 1982. Upon its deactivation, it was named the Thomas Mutch Memorial Station after the leader of the program’s imaging team.