The year was 1990. Detriot won back-to-back NBA titles and Dennis Rodman was still in the closet; un-pierced and un-inked. “Nothing Compares 2 U” by Sinéad O’Connor was number 1 on the charts. In 1990, the International Space Station launched the Hubble Space Telescope. It was the first satellite of it’s kind… astronauts, taikonauts, and [...]
Earth Satellite Maps has returned from a lunar hiatus to shed some light on a phone that is simply out of this world. I mean hello people, it is 2010 thus making it a year where everything sounds VERY futuristic. All the buzz around the Apple iPhone will be a thing of the past once [...]
Move over Lance Armstrong, because Neil Armstrong is back in the limelight. As Lance Armstrong fights to win an unprecedented eigth Tour de France, Neil Armstrong’s moon walking footage is all over the press. To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing, Google has launched a new feature: the Moon in Google [...]
The LA Times spread news today of that NASA managers on Monday decided to move back the scheduled launch of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and moon mapping mission to no earlier than Thursday. The combination orbiter probe and earth satellite comprises the beginning of a Nasa mission to get humans back to the moon by [...]
The Soloman R. Guggenheim Museum and Google are marking the museum’s golden anniversary in an appropriate way by joining together on a global design competition inspired by the building’s master architect, Frank Lloyd Wright. “Throughout the Guggenheim’s 50th anniversary year, one of our most important goals is to engage new and ever-broader global audiences to [...]
