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APEC leaders dilute carbon targets
Ohaiyo Business Magazine —
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Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is jointly hosting a climate change breakfast on the sidelines of APEC in Singapore, though the Pacific rim leaders have watered down climate change targets in their final statement. Climate change has been the big new issue on the usually trade-centred agenda of the Asia Pacific Economic ...22 hours ago -
Take a Video Freefall: Apollo 11 Landing Site
Space Coalition Blog —
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Thanks to NASAs Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and the talented folks at Arizona State University in Tempe you can take a video freefall of Apollo 11s landing site, Tranquility Base. Very small details of Tranquility Base can be discerned. The footpads of the Lunar Module are clearly discernible, components of ...1 day ago -
High Noon over Apollo 11 on YouTube
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Tranquility Base at high noon, is virtually zoomed-in upon, this time on YouTube , an animated survey of the latest of three images of Apollo 11 swept up by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) October 1. Detail about the full image were posted November 9 [LROC M109080308RE - NASA/GSFU/ASU]. Lunar ...1 day ago -
Astrorobotic Rover Aims To Visit Apollo 11 Site After 40 Years
Future Transportation —
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Forty years after Apollo 11 touched down on the moon, plans are afoot to revisit the site to see how the remains have stood up to four decades of radiation and micrometeorite bombardment. One vehicle that may well be used for this expedition is the third prototype lunar robot from Lunar X Prize entrant Astrobotic. The ...3 days ago -
Grover’s Accidental Gay Marriage PSA
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With all the Sesame Street hubbub as of late it seems people (like me) have been watching a TON of old Sesame Street videos. And with all that watching someone over at boingboing came across a great clip of Grover discussing what marriage is. What makes the clip stand out is that nowhere in the clip do Grover ...4 days ago -
Sesame Street Gets a Real Street
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In celebration of Sesame Street’s 40th Birthday the gang got their own corner in New York City! Now the corner of 64th and Broadway reads 123 Sesame Street and 11/10 is officially Sesame Street Day. This makes me happy for so many reasons but the main one is that Sesame Street’s new corner is right by my ...4 days ago -
NASA Live Digital Network Brings Apollo 11 Experts into Classrooms
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WASHINGTON – Forty years after humans first walked on the moon, NASA is offering the next generation of explorers a chance to learn how the challenges of the Apollo 11 mission were met. Through a series of interactive educational videoconferences, students will hear firsthand accounts of the people who made the ...4 days ago -
LRO Gets Additional View of Apollo 11 Landing Site
International Space Fellowship —
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“Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.”With those eight words, astronaut Neil Armstrong let the world know that Apollo 11 had landed safely on the moon, beginning humankind’s first exploration of another world. The landing certainly kept the mission operations crew in suspense as Armstrong ...5 days ago -
One Giant Leap seen again
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Let me show you something. And when I say "something", I mean something . See the red arrow, and where it’s pointing? That arrow is pointing to a place that changed humanity forever. You can divide all of history between the time before and the time after what happened where that arrow points. You see, that ...5 days ago -
High Noon at Tranquility Base
Lunar Pioneer —
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Sixty meters over West Crater Neil Armstrong takes manual control from the automated landing system of the Apollo 11 lunar module "Eagle" because it seemed about to set down within the craters boulder-strewn interior. The still above from the sequential still camera shows the last moments of slowed forward motion ...5 days ago -
New Fantastic Photo: High Noon at Apollo 11s Tranquility Base
Space Coalition Blog —
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NASAs Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) high-powered camera system has flown over the Apollo 11 landing site. Thanks to a low-altitude flyover of the landing spot, new details of the Apollo 11 exploration zone can been seen, far better than earlier imagery taken by LRO. At this lower altitude flown by LRO, very ...5 days ago -
New Ion Engine Could Reach Mars In 39 Days
Future Transportation —
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Recently, as the world celebrated the first lunar landing, Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins both called for NASA to make Mars its next goal. But the chemical propulsion system that took them to the moon would take six months, at least, to get a man to Mars and cost hundreds of billions of dollars. ...6 days ago -
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HTML clipboard Larry Baysinger "looks over the antenna he designed to receive voice communications from the Apollo astronauts during their walk" on the Moon. [ Louisville Courier-Journal , July 1969 Jay Thomas / James Grahame- Retrothing.com / Makezine ] - " Lunar Eavesdropping in Louisville, Kentucky ...6 days ago -
Eavesdropping on Apollo 11
Lunar Pioneer —
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Larry Baysinger "looks over the antenna he designed to receive voice communications from the Apollo astronauts during their walk" on the Moon. [ Louisville Courier-Journal , July 1969 Jay Thomas / James Grahame- Retrothing.com / Makezine ] - " Lunar Eavesdropping in Louisville, Kentucky " Lunar Pioneer, ...1 week ago -
YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder
Ohaiyo Business Magazine —
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A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...1 week ago -
Educators! Sign Up for Apollo Space Program Virtual Conference
Space Coalition Blog —
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Join NASA and the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum for the Apollo Space Program Virtual Conference for Educators, a FREE online conference taking place on Nov. 10, 2009, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. EST. Forty years ago the Apollo Space Program met President Kennedys goal of landing a man on the moon, one of the ...1 week ago -
40 Years of Sesame Street: Happy Birthday!!
TakePart Social Action Network —
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This summer I did a series called 40 Years of Sesame Street in anticipation of the upcoming 40th anniversary of what is probably my favorite TV show of all time, Sesame Street. Well I am excited to announce the day is finally here at that it is today that Jim Henson’s wonderful brainchild turns 40! To celebrate ...1 week ago -
NASM to offer free teleconferences
The Original Rocket Dungeon —
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You can read all the details on their site , but heres a summary of the first one: The National Air and Space Museum is holding its first ever virtual conference for educators on Tuesday, November 10 from 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. EST. Since we’re in the middle of the 40 th anniversary commemorations of the Apollo ...1 week ago -
Video: Buzz Aldrin speaks at the 2009 Texas Book Festival in Aus...
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Aldrin speaks in Austin on the Apollo 11 moon landing, life after NASA, and the future of space flight. (via Michael Castellon)1 week ago -
Poor leadership linked to soldier’s death
Ohaiyo Business Magazine —
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Deficiencies in training, leadership and deployment readiness may have contributed to the death of Lieutenant Michael Fussell in Afghanistan last year, a Defence inquiry has found. The Major in charge of the operation in which Lieutenant Fussell died on November 27 has now been stood down from his command. ...1 week ago
