A full moon can play tricks on you, especially in this dark and lonely cornfield.
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Space Shuttle Endeavour
Today, Martine and I did something a little different. I was curious to see the NASA Space Shuttle Endeavour, which was on display in a large hangar at the California Science Center in downtown Los Angeles. To get there, we took the relatively new Metro Expo Line from its current end of the line in Culver City to the Expo Park/USC Station.
The Endeavour was amazing. There was nothing Disneyfied or cleaned up about its appearance. The shuttle had spent some 296 days in space between its maiden voyage in 1992 and its arrival in Los Angeles in September 2012. It had circumnavigated the earth 4,671 times for a total of 123 million miles. Instead of looking nice and neat and clean, there was something gritty about its looks, especially around the nose cone: The heat of re-entry placed the most stress on the protective tiles tiles (see below)…
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Lunar Rover
Take a ride on the moon with Apollo 16 astronauts John Young and Charles Duke in 1972.
Neil Armstrong
Neil Armstrong
1930 – 2012
“As long as there are history books, Neil Armstrong will be included in them, remembered for taking humankind’s first small step on a world beyond our own.”
– NASA Administrator Charles Bolden
Curiosity Rover
Ground controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory celebrate the successful landing of the Curiosity Rover on Mars.
One of the first images received.
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Fifty Years Ago
Launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on May 5, 1961.
for May 5, 2011.
First Moon Landing
July 20, 1969
Vauquer Boarding House 