The Telegraph reported Tuesday that Sir Patrick Moore, host of the BBC program The Sky at Night, was honored with Royal Mail stamps, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the show. The Sky at Night is the longest-running program in the world to still feature its original host. Moore selected the six astronomical objects featured on [...]
January 31, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Lost in space
It is an unfortunate fact that things don’t always seem as important, at the time, as they later become. So it was with the missing Apollo 11 landing footage tapes, which, were they not lost, contain a far superior recording of the iconic first step for man and giant leap for mankind. These recordings, “a [...]
January 30, 2007 By 4 Comments
Sprucing up orbiting interiors
Martha Stewart talks with space station astronauts Michael Lopez-Alegria and Sunita Williams via a video link. Image courtesy of USA Today and The Martha Stewart Show. Last week USA Today reported on a remarkable video call between the current ISS crew and Martha Stewart, which took place January 22. While they quip that “no place [...]
August 7, 2006 By Leave a Comment
I want my MTV.
Image courtesy of and © MTV: Music Television, all rights reserved. Watch the footage in Quicktime format. (Borrowed from here.) If you’ve never seen the above iconic representations of MTV, congratulations, you’re the last on your block. Few MTV logo spots are remotely as memorable (the girl brandishing a chainsaw, cutting the front off a [...]
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