Apollo

PHOTOS: Space Walks And Gorgeous Views From NASA's Gemini Missions

The Huffington Post | Travis Korte | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: John Glenn, Apollo, Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, Nasa, Video, Human Spaceflight, NASA Photos, NASA History, Gemini, Slidewide, Astronauts, Space Walk Photos, Spaceflight, Space Race, Earth Orbit, Science News

April 2012 marks 50 years since the beginning of NASA's Gemini program. Carried out from 1962-1966, during the feverish middle years of the space race...

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Musing About Muses (Part 1)

Irene Tanner | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Apollo, Muses, Homer, Rowlings, Terpsichore, Music, Poetry, Song, Mythology, Intuition, Dance, Olympians, Shakespeare, Museum, Wisdom, Healthy Living News
Irene Tanner

Do you realize that we all have an intuitive muse available to us? All we have to do is extend an invitation.

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Jeff Beck at 67: Perennial Guitar Hero

Michael Sigman | Posted 03.20.2012

Read More: Stephen Colbert, Eric Clapton, The Beatles, Jeff Beck, Apollo, The Yardbirds, Les Paul, Hermes, Chrissie Hynde, Joss Stone, Fifty News
Michael Sigman

Stephen Colbert reflected Beck's genius and self-effacement when, as host of the 2010 Grammy Awards, he told a worldwide audience, "You know the game 'Guitar Hero?' He has the all-time high score -- and he's never played it."

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Original Broadway 'Dreamgirl' To Make Apollo Debut

Posted 01.12.2012

Read More: Apollo Theater, Apollo, Jennifer Holliday, Dreamgirls, Amateur Night, Bv-Pop-Culture-Entertainment, Black Voices News

Tony Award-winning actress Jennifer Holliday is set to make her Apollo debut on February 1 during the opening night of the theater's 78th season of Am...

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Space History in DC: White Roses for Explorers, Part 3

Zoe P. Strassfield | Posted 10.09.2011

Read More: History, Arlington National Cemetery, Astronauts, Independence Day, Apollo, Grissom, Chaffee, Irwin, College News
Zoe P. Strassfield

There were several pebbles on top of the headstones of the Apollo 1 crewmembers, and on top of Roger Chaffee's, there was also a coin. At first I thought it was just a quarter, but as I got closer, I recognized it as something else.

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Over and Out, Above and Beyond: Is the Space Age Over Or Just Beginning?

William Bradley | Posted 09.27.2011

Read More: Russia, Apollo, Moon Landing, Nasa, Barack Obama, John F. Kennedy, Atlantis, Space Shuttle, Richard Nixon, Soyuz, Technology News
William Bradley

As I watched the last mission of Atlantis -- something utterly unimaginable in 1969 -- some of the old feeling came back. But it seemed, with due respect, rather generic, with a cloudy future overhanging it all.

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Apollo's Children and the NewSpace Revolution

Rick Tumlinson | Posted 09.21.2011

Read More: Space Station, Sierra Nevada, Space, Space Tourist, Rocket, Mars, Orbital Sciences, Apollo, Neil Armstrong, Nasa, Moon, Spacex, Space Shuttle, Commercial Space Travel, Astronaut, Aldrin, Asteroid, Space Capsule, Technology News
Rick Tumlinson

The shuttle program ended this week just as we celebrated the 42nd anniversary of Apollo. It is poetic and yet sad. It also begs the question, what ne...

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The End of the Shuttle: The Real Reason We Send People Into Space

Rick Tumlinson | Posted 09.16.2011

Read More: Commercial Space, Space Shuttle, Rocket, Iss, Johnson Space Center, Mars, Newspace, Cape Kennedy, Apollo, Nasa, Spacex, Moon, Space Frontier Foundation, International Space Station, Space Colony, Astronaut, Technology News
Rick Tumlinson

This week, the shuttle program ends and we "celebrate" the anniversary of Apollo, when humans first walked on the moon. Yet, many question if we ever went. Why? Because if we had why aren't we still there and far beyond?

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Dancing on a Precipice

Jack Schimmelman | Posted 09.10.2011

Read More: Chaos, Politics, Tea Party, Empowerment, Economics, Ronald Reagan, Beach, Summer, Ideologues, Congress, Media, Culture, Volcanos, Apollo, Debt Ceiling, Politics News
Jack Schimmelman

As the sun labors to rise above the horizon, I join my neighbors on the precipice of a crater. We peer into the abyss, sleepwalking towards oblivion ...

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America's First Woman Space-Walker Remembers Shuttle Rides

James M. Clash | Posted 09.05.2011

Read More: Adventure, Great Wall of China, Iss, Jim Clash, Discovery, Space Walk, Apollo, Exploration, Weightlessness, Gemini, Challenger, Soyuz, Noaa, Kathryn D. Sullivan, Women, Science, Skylab, Last Shuttle Flight Atlantis, Astronaut, Mars, Moon, Travel News
James M. Clash

"This business consists of riding bombs. And if you do absolutely everything right, you can marshal the energy to do something astonishing like put yourself into orbit. If you do even a few things wrong, it's going to act like a bomb."

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Central Park: A Performance in Four Seasons (Summer)

Jack Schimmelman | Posted 08.17.2011

Read More: Belvedere Castle, Waterfall, Jack and Jill, Central Park, War, Spring, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Victor Herbert, Swans, Loss, Peace, New York City, Apollo, Urban, John Lennon, Summer, Spiritual, Imagine, Ghosts, Casualties, Love, The Ramble, William Shakespeare, Summer Solstice, New York News
Jack Schimmelman

Central Park lights the stage in all her glory, for summer has arrived, voluptuous and steady. No longer do the denizens of the city fear nature's vacillating affection.

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The Big Ideas Deficit

Matthew Kohut | Posted 07.25.2011

Read More: Energy, John F. Kennedy, Apollo, Obama Speech, Nasa, Moon Landing, Sputnik Moment, Green, Clean Energy, Presidential Rhetoric, Great Moments in Presidential Speeches, President, Barack Obama, Politics News
Matthew Kohut

The Sputnik moment for clean energy has not passed, and if reelected, President Obama may have another opportunity to do a big thing or two.

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So When Does the Sputnik Moment Begin?

Susan Deily-Swearingen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Josh Fox, President Obama, New York H20, Gas Drilling, New York City, Dick Cheney, Radioactive, Apollo, Sputnik Moment, Gasland, Nasa, Natural Gas, Energy, Pro Publica, Haliburton, Democracy Now, Frack, Fracking, Barack Obama, New York Watershed, Politics News
Susan Deily-Swearingen

Why do we continue to funnel money into programs like additional gas wells in the New York State watershed instead of embracing newer, cleaner programs like wind and solar?

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Cyprus: Tales of Aphrodite

Bob Schulman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Richard the Lionheart, Travel to Cypus, Aphrodite, Apollo, Larnaka, Limassol, Greece, Greek, Turkish, Cyprus, Travel News
Bob Schulman

Legends say this is the spot where the Greek goddess came to freshen up after running around with her many boyfriends. The waters are believed to have magical properties.

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Central Park: A Performance in Four Seasons (Winter Eclipse)

Jack Schimmelman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Diana, Lunar Eclipse, Handel, Belvedere Castle, Jack and Jill, Central Park, Central Park Mall, Harlem Meer, Celestial Bodies, New York City, Apollo, Beethoven, Romance, Vista Rock, Conservatory Garden, Winter Solstice, Joy to the World, Hallejulah Chorus, Sugar Plum Faeries, Angel of the Waters, New York News
Jack Schimmelman

Winter majestically enters, making his presence known with oblique light bestowed upon a peaceful land set in the middle of sparkle.

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For-Profit College Stocks Tumble On Enrollment Decline Warning

AP | TALI ARBEL and JANNA HERRON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Apollo, For-Profit College Stocks, University of Phoenix, Apollo Group, For-Profit Colleges, College News

NEW YORK — The nation's largest for-profit college says it will take a big hit to enrollment – and its bottom line – as it tightens ...

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Ex-Google, Bing Engineers To Build 'Newspaper Of The Future'

techcrunch.com | Robin Wauters | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Death of Print, Death of Newspapers, Newspaper of the Future, Apollo News, Apollo, Hawthorne Labs, Technology News

Today, [Hawthorne Labs] released their first application, dubbed APOLLO, for the iPad [...]. Their lofty ambition is to become the number one daily de...

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Jennifer Lopez At The Apollo: Good As Gold? (PHOTOS, POLL)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Apollo, Jennifer Lopez, Hit or Miss, Poll, Fashion, Style News

Jennifer Lopez attended the 2010 Apollo Theater Benefit Concert & Awards Ceremony on Monday night wearing a gold Gianfranco Ferre dress paired with an...

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March 10: First Phone Call

Sophie Pollitt-Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gilbert-and-Sullivan, Apollo, Telephone, Alexander Grahm Bell, Brad Pitt, Troy, Connecticut, Achilles, Theater, Comedy News
Sophie Pollitt-Cohen

On this day in 1876, Alexander Graham Bell made the first successful telephone call. He said, "Mr. Watson, come here. I want you." (On Wikipedia, t...

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Last Call to be World Leader

Daniel Bruno Sanz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Buzz Aldrin, Einstein, Cia, M.C. Hammer, Apollo, Sputnik, Kitty Hawk, Nasa, Global Trends 2025, Exobiology, Mr. Spock, Afghanistan, Moon, Boeing Company, Dod, Aromabar, Kaguya, Michener, Klare, Technology News
Daniel Bruno Sanz

Let America marshal its vast resources in the self-interested pursuit of innovation and science in space for the greatness of a nation and the benefit of the world.

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Harlem -- Night Before The Primary

Reverend Billy | Posted 05.25.2011

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Reverend Billy

Corruption has taken a sophisticated form. It has been enlarged from the usual millions under the table, unchanged since Tammany Hall and beyond, to the modern era of marketing.

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Liz Cheney: Birther of Crazier Conspiracies

Warren Holstein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Warren Holstein

Dick's progeny didn't fall far from the gnarled, twisted tree. Liz Cheney has unfurled her writhing power-hungry roots, burrowing deep beneath the dirt filled with assorted creepy crawlies to feed her political prospects.

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Apollo or Extinction

Tad Daley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Holocaust, Space Travel, Climate Change, Nuclear Weapons, Extinction, Space, Genocide, Apollo, Green News
Tad Daley

This period, where we hold this capability to destroy ourselves but before we have found a way to save ourselves, might be called the human race's ultimate "window of vulnerability."

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Do We Need Apollo Projects To Fight Climate Change?

treehugger.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Moon Landing, Apollo, Man on the Moon, Apollo Project for Climate Change, Global Warming, Climate Change, Lunar Landing, Green News

As we celebrate the 40th anniversary of the remarkable achievement of putting Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon (while Michael Collins nervou...

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DVDs -- Celebrate Moon Landing With Little Known Classic For All Mankind

Michael Giltz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wallace Shawn, Moon Landing, Andre Gregory, Criterion, Louis Malle, Alain Resnais, Dvds, Ingmar Bergman, Apollo, Entertainment News
Michael Giltz

Filmmaker Al Reinert breaks a lot of rules. He depicts an idealized journey from the earth to the moon, grabbing footage wherever he found it.

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