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Space Exploration: 40 yrs since

2009/07/20
By Marc Van Norden
Space Exploration: 40 yrs since

Today July 20th 2009 is the 40th anniversary of the Lunar Landing on Mars. The Boston Globe has a great gallery of photos from the time. Also recently NASA worked with movie studios to restore the original moon landing footage to a better quality. Ironically, NASA does not own have the original tapes! After...
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Photos: Central Coast

2009/06/16
By Marc Van Norden
Photos: Central Coast

I went to the central coast (aka wine country, aka Santa Maria, aka farmland) for the 1st time this past weekend. It has a beauty that is all it’s own and stands up against any of the places I have visited. It took me about 4 days to realize why I was so attracted...
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New App Poladroid Worth Looking At

2009/05/22
By Marc Van Norden

While we wait for the “Impossible Project” to revive SX-70 Land Camera. Here is something I came across today. It is an app called “Poladroid” and it works pretty good. I did a couple samples you can see below. The last 2 pics are from the iPhone and an App CameraBag which mimics different...
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SpaceShuttle Commander Tweeting from Space

2009/05/11
By Marc Van Norden
SpaceShuttle Commander Tweeting from Space

In June astronaut and Space Shuttle Commander Mark Polansky will be heading to the International Space Station for mission STS-127. The mission will be to deliver and install the final two components of the Japanese Experiment Module. As part of that Mark will be updating the mission live over twitter. He is also putting...
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A Little Break from Cyberspace (well most of it)

2009/04/03
By Marc Van Norden
A Little Break from Cyberspace (well most of it)

In 6 days it will have been a month since I wrote a post to brown-paper. Not that nothing has been going on it was just good to step a way for a bit. The time without this radiation machine sitting on my legs has allowed the hair to grow back to it’s full...
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