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Two new teams join the Google Lunar X Prize Race to the Moon. ... Source: www.marketwire.com --- 2 days ago
CHICAGO, IL (MARKET WIRE) The X PRIZE Foundation today announced two new teams and a new Preferred Partner in the Google Lunar X PRIZE, a robotic Race to the Moon to win a remarkable $30 million in prizes. These two teams join the international group of teams that will compete to land a privately funded robotic craft on the Moon that is capable of roaming the lunar surface for at least 500 meters and sending video, images and data back to the Earth. ... Source: www.moreover.com --- 2 days ago
Red Orbit Oct 8 2008 1:01AM GMT ... Source: www.twilightguy.com --- 12 days ago
The song for this chapter is Candle by The White Tie Affair [See post at http://www.twilightguy.com to listen to audio] Last week I got the news that Paramore, known for such hits as That’s What You Get and Misery Business, will be contributing two new songs to the Twilight movie soundtrack. Besides setting off a glorious frenzy [...] ...
Source: www.wired.com --- 3 days ago
1959: The space probe Luna 3 takes the first photographs of the dark side of the Moon. The radio-controlled Luna 3 was part of the Soviet Union's highly successful lunar program, which completed 20 missions to the Moon between January 1959 and October 1970. Although the United States won the Race to land a human on the Moon, the Russians achieved a number of their own lunar milestones, including the first flyby (Luna 1), first surface impact (Luna 2), first soft landing (Luna 9) and first lunar orbiter (Luna 10). Luna 3's mission objective was to provide the first photographs from the Moon's far side. To achieve this, the probe was equipped with a dual-lens 35mm camera, one a 200mm, f/5.6 aperture, the other a 500mm, f/9.5. The photo sequencing was automatically triggered when Luna 3's photocell detected the sunlit far side, which occurred when the craft was passing about 40,000 miles above the lunar surface. Luna 3's camera took 29 photographs over a 40-minute period, covering roughly 70 percent of the Moon's far side. The photographs were developed, fixed and dried by the probe's onboard film processing unit. Seventeen images were successfully scanned and returned to Earth on Oct. 18, when Luna 3 was close enough to begin transmitting. Although the low-resolution images had to be boosted by computer enhancement on Earth, in the end they were good enough to produce a tentative map of the dark side. Among the identifiable feature ... Source: www.moreover.com --- 15 days ago
Half a century after NASA was created at the height of the Cold War when the United States sought to prove its superiority by winning the Race to the Moon, the space agency faces new challenges ahead. ... Source: www.timesonline.co.uk --- 3 days ago
India will launch its first unmanned mission to the Moon this month as it struggles to catch up with China in a 21st-century Asian version of the Cold War space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union. ...
Source: www.chron.com --- 14 days ago
China launched its third and most sophisticated manned space mission Thursday, showcasing the nation's technical prowess and fueling concerns that it intends to Race the United States to the Moon. ...
Source: www.space.com --- 3 days ago
NASA's Apollo Moon treks evolved from Mercury and Gemini during the Space Race. ... Source: blip.tv --- 9 days ago
THE TRAILER FOR A PROVOCATIVE NEW DOCUMENTARY. AS THE ELECTION DRAWS NEAR, CHRIS HUME AND AMY SUNSHINE Moon TRAVEL OVER TEN THOUSAND MILES THROUGH THE FORGOTTEN CORNERS OF AMERICA. HUNDREDS OF ORDINARY AMERICANS ARE INTERVIEWED, GIVING THEIR OPINIONS ON ISSUES RANGING FROM THE WAR TO CLIMATE CHANGE TO RELIGION, AND MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL... THE PRESIDENTIAL Race IN 2008. DVD IS AVAILABLE AT www.redstateroadtrip.com ...
Source: www.kentucky.com --- 3 days ago
New Jersey is powering up an ambitious plan to become a world leader in the use of wind-generated energy. Gov. Jon Corzine wants the Garden State to triple the amount of wind power it plans to use by 2020 to 3,000 megawatts. That would be 13 percent of New Jersey's total energy, enough to power between 800,000 to just under 1 million homes. "We want to create this generation's Race to the Moon, but this time, a Race to the sea, to harness this potential wind source off of our coasts, and bring economic development, environmental benefits, and new, green jobs to the Garden State," Corzine said Monday. Environmentalists hailed the plan. Dena Mottola Jaborska, executive director of Environment New Jersey, termed it "a gale force for change, moving us away from dirty power and towards a new energy future. It is the most visionary plan to promote offshore wind energy in the nation." Last week, Garden State Offshore Energy, a joint venture of PSE&G Renewable Generation and Deepwater Wind, was chosen to build a $1 billion, 345 megawatt wind farm in the ocean about 16 miles southeast of Atlantic City. That plant would be able to power about 125,000 homes. ... Source: www.seedmagazine.com --- 9 days ago
Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, Apollo ll mission commander, at the modular equipment storage assembly (MESA) of the Lunar Module "Eagle" on the historic first extravehicular activity (EVA) on the lunar surface. Credit: NASA. On July 29, 1958, President Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, authorizing the creation of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and establishing its mission to undertake space science and exploration "for the benefit of all mankind." NASA began operations some three months later, on October 1. Eleven years afterward, fulfilling a vision laid out by President Kennedy, men walked on the Moon, their actions destined to resonate through the remainder of human history. Though they only encompassed four of the agency's 50 years, the remembered glory of the lunar landings still overshadows all other subsequent NASA accomplishments. But Apollo ingloriously failed in one key way: It was not sustained, perhaps not sustainable. Apollo was planned and executed at breakneck speed; the goal was to reach the Moon as quickly as possible, not to develop a lasting ability to go there. The space Race was the product of a unique sociopolitical situation: a post-war nation arguably near the peak of its hegemonic, economic, and industrial powers indulging in a noble substitution for warfare with its sole global competitor, the USSR. When Apollo succeeded, when the "battle" was "won," Americ ... Find more results for Moon Race on RSSMicro.com |
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The only reason I am sorry I was not alive in 1960’s was to witness the monumental space Race between USA and USSR which culminated in sending a man to the Moon in 1969. Since that time, there has not… ...
Polls have come to dominate the media's horse Race coverage of political campaigns. Pundits and reporters constantly use them to tell us who's hot and who's not -- but skip over the fact that plummeting response rates and variables like undecided voters and margins of error often render these polls useless as anything other than lightweight diversions on par with horoscopes and political betting lines. Below you'll find a slew of polling, astrological, and betting information that will hopefully help the polling junkies in the media keep polls in the proper perspective. We've also updated HuffPollstrology to bring you regular takes from astrologers on the state of the presidential Race. And we've included a section that digs deeper into how polls are conducted. And to make sure we're really investigating, we're going to add various blogs and articles that cast a skeptical eye on polling. Read on for lots of HuffPollstrology: ASTROLOGER PHILIP SEDGWICK LOOKS AT THE CANDIDATES - **NEW POST 10/2**: We'll take a quick break from noting the polls for McCain and Obama to detail the trends for the vice-presidential debate. The communication planet, Mercury, continues his backward track, opening the door for gaffes, misstatements and twists of context. Combined with Biden's skill of going on a spell and Palin's ability to fill dead air with her brand of air, it could be rich. With a passionate, down and dirty Scorpio Moon that can blurt ...
The black and white cookie just went national. At a bakery in Grand Central Terminal full of commuters rushing home before the vice presidential debate, many slowed at a cookie display advertising, "Today's Special Obama and McCain Black & White Cookies." "A black and white cookie is a soft, sponge cake-like shortbread which is iced on one half with vanilla fondant, and on the other half by dark chocolate fondant," is how Wikipedia defines the black and white cookie, adding that the dessert is a particularly "New York Snack." The cookie's New Yorky-ness was established by its cameo on a Seinfeld episode, "The Dinner Party," in which Jerry sums up his philosophy of Race relations: "Look to the cookie." At the end, Jerry ends up with indigestion (his last words, "I've got David Duke and Farrakhan going at it down there.") So, now that the cookie has entered the debate, what wisdom might it hold in the coming weeks before the election? Based on the cookie's New York stronghold and the fact that its name is used interchangeably with the Half-Moon, a cookie quite common in Upstate New York and New England, there is the fear that it may be seen by some as elitist. The latter come with a chocolate base, rather than a vanilla/lemon base, which is the standard downstate and in New York City. It is yet to be seen if the cookie will become as controversial as the debate between the French fry and Freedom fry during the Bush administration. ...
Highly Recommended The Show: I may have missed the whole space Race of the 1960's, but I have always been fascinated by it. NASA's space program, flights to the Moon and anything involving astronauts continue to hold my interest long into adulthood. If there's a shuttle flight, I'm watching it, and if there's news regarding some discovery made by the Hubble Telescope, you'd better believe that I'm paying attention. Because of this I make it a point to watch shows such as Earth to the Moon and many of the documentary series involving space. The latest title released by Discovery, When We Left Earth , just so happens to be one of the best ever put together. Originally airing in June of 2008, When We Left Earth is a in depth look at the NASA program from its brave first s... Read the entire review ...