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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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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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Live Tweeting (no, not the Oscars)

2009/02/24
By Marc Van Norden
Live Tweeting (no, not the Oscars)

Sitting on my couch at 1:44 am, thinking I shouldn't have taken that 3 hour nap at 7pm; my mindless ESPN watching was interrupted by a tweet from @NASA: "OCO launch update: Liftoff is now set for 4:55 EST. Catch it on www.nasa.gov/ntv". This was a lot more interesting than watching the rerun segment...
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