http://channel.
Received some information from Minjae Ormes on upcoming space related National Geographic TV programs that she thought might be of interest.
If you don't have access to the programs, at least know that folks are interested in what is out there and trying to inform the public.
- LRK -
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Hi Larry –
I hope this email finds you well! I wanted to let you know about a couple of upcoming, space-related programs on National Geographic Channel. ALIEN EARTHS and NAKED SCIENCE: HAWKING’S UNIVERSE will air back-to-back on Sunday, August 23.
Below are respective program descriptions, links to the program Website, as well some images and embeddable videos:
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ALIEN EARTHS
Sunday, August 23 at 9PM ET/PT
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/alien-earths-3637/Overview
Join leading astronomers on a visual journey beyond our solar system in search of planets like Earth. Using CGI animation, we’ll explore bizarre worlds that stretch our imagination: planets with iron rain and hot ice, with diamonds everywhere, and endless oceans of gas. Planets with abnormal orbital patterns and planets with no pattern at all that drift alone in the Milky Way. Planets so strange we never could have predicted them before. Could life exist there?
Video #1 – Extreme conditions abound on planemos. But spring and fall are just right. Can life survive beyond the Goldilocks Zone?
Link: http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/alien-earths-3637/Videos/07058_00
Video #2 – Adrift in space with no star to keep them warm, some planemos still manage to support life.
Link: http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/alien-earths-3637/Videos/07059_00
Video #3 – “Planetary zombies” can orbit a pulsar, but radiation makes it impossible for life of any kind to survive on them.
Link: http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/alien-earths-3637/Videos/07080_00
On our ALIEN EARTHS program Website, you can also:
Navigate the Planetary Investigation Lab and explore 3D life form rotations, videos, photos and high resolution concept art.
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/alien-earths-3637/Overview#tab-interactive
Learn about current and future NASA missions, including the Keck Interferometer Telescopes, Spitzer Space Telescope, and the Kepler Mission.
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/alien-earths-3637/Overview#tab-missions
Check out a photo gallery of the planets, and more.
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/alien-earths-3637/Overview03#tab-search-for-earth
NAKED SCIENCE: HAWKING’S UNIVERSE
Sunday, August 23 at 10PM ET/PT
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/series/naked-science/3898/Overview
Stephen Hawking is one of the world’s most famous scientists. But ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease, has left him almost totally paralyzed and it is progressing. Unable to walk, talk, or write, his only way of communicating is through a computer program that turns a small movement of a finger or the blink of an eye, into words from a vocal synthesizer. But Hawking remains determined to discover a theory of everything, a complete set of rules for the Universe. Where did the Universe come from and where is it going? What is the nature of time?
Will it ever come to an end? This program will explore Hawking’s major contributions to the understanding of our Universe - from his revolutionary proof that our Universe originated in a Big Bang; to his ground breaking discovery that Black Holes are not completely black,
but rather emit radiation and eventually evaporate and disappear, to his insights on string theory. Will he unlock the secret of creation before his time runs out?
Video #1 – No one's found the Theory of Everything yet, but when Hawking discovers that black holes emit radiation, he gets very close.
Link: http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/series/naked-science/3898/Videos/07078_00
Video #2 – When Hawking loses his voice to a tracheotomy, new speech software technology keeps his research on track.
Link: http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/series/naked-science/3898/Videos/07079_00
Please let me know if I can provide you with any additional information. Thank you for your time and have a great week!
Best,
Minjae
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http://minjaeormes.com/
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I hope we continue to have TV programs that inform us about space and help generate an interest exploring the unknown.
Thanks for looking up with me.
Larry Kellogg
Web Site: http://lkellogg.vttoth.com/LarryRussellKellogg/
BlogSpot: http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/
RSS link: http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/atom.xml
Newsletter: https://news.altair.com/mailman/listinfo/lunar-update
Twitter: http://twitter.com/lrkellogg
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Next mission to the ISS and NASA letting us know who is going. - LRK -
Stockton CA just up the road from me, maybe one of these Astronauts from your neighborhood.
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MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-149
INDIANA ASTRONAUT TO FLY ON NEXT SPACE SHUTTLE MISSION
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA astronaut Kevin Ford, who was born in Portland, Ind., and considers Montpelier, Ind., his hometown, will serve as the pilot on space shuttle Discovery's next mission to the International Space Station.
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http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2009/aug/HQ_M09-150_Texas_astronaut.html
MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-150
TEXAS ASTRONAUT TO FLY ON NEXT SPACE SHUTTLE MISSION
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA astronaut Patrick Forrester, who was born in El Paso, Texas, will make his third journey into orbit on space shuttle Discovery's next mission to the International Space Station.
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http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2009/aug/HQ_M09-151_California_astronauts.html
MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-151
TWO CALIFORNIA ASTRONAUTS TO FLY ON NEXT SPACE SHUTTLE MISSION
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.-- NASA's next space shuttle mission will carry two California- born astronauts into orbit.
Veteran space flier Rick Sturckow, from Lakeside, Calif., will command shuttle Discovery's mission to the International Space Station. Jose Hernandez, who considers Stockton, Calif., his hometown, will make his first trip to space.
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http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2009/aug/HQ_M09-152_Florida_Astronaut.html
MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-152
FLORIDA NATIVE TO LIVE ABOARD INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Nicole Stott, a native of Clearwater, Fla., will make her first journey into orbit on space shuttle Discovery's upcoming mission to the International Space Station. She will live and work aboard the station for three months.
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http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2009/aug/HQ_M09-153_Texas_Native_to_Fly_on_Shuttle.html
MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-153
TEXAS NATIVE TO FLY ON NEXT SHUTTLE MISSION
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA astronaut Danny Olivas, born and raised in El Paso, Texas, will conduct three spacewalks during the upcoming space shuttle mission to the International Space Station. This is the first shuttle flight to feature two Latino astronauts, Olivas and Jose Hernandez who are both of Mexican descent.
Discovery is targeted to launch at 1:36 a.m. EDT, Aug. 25, from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. To cover the launch on-site, U.S. reporters must request Kennedy credentials online at: https://media.ksc.nasa.gov
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http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2009/aug/HQ_M09-154_Virginia_Astronaut.html
MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-154
VIRGINIA ASTRONAUT TO FLY ON NEXT SPACE SHUTTLE MISSION
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA astronaut Patrick Forrester, whose hometown is Springfield, Va., will make his third journey into orbit on space shuttle Discovery's next mission to the International Space Station.
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http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2009/aug/HQ_09-187_STS-134_crew.html
RELEASE: 09-187
NASA ASSIGNS CREW FOR STS-134 SHUTTLE MISSION, CHANGE TO STS-132
WASHINGTON -- NASA has assigned the crew for space shuttle mission STS-134 to the International Space Station. The flight will deliver the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, or AMS, to the station. The AMS is a state-of-the-art cosmic ray particle physics detector designed to examine fundamental issues about matter and the origin and structure of the universe.
Navy Capt. Mark Kelly will command the STS-134 mission. Retired Air Force Col. Gregory H. Johnson will serve as the pilot. Mission Specialists are Air Force Col. Michael Fincke, Greg Chamitoff and Andrew Feustel. European Space Agency astronaut and Italian Air Force Col. Roberto Vittori also will serve as a mission specialist.
The flight will include three spacewalks and the installation of the AMS to the exterior of the space station using both the shuttle and station arms. The AMS will be attached to the right side of the station's truss, or backbone.
NASA also has named Air Force Col. Michael Good to replace Karen Nyberg on shuttle Atlantis' STS-132 mission, targeted to launch in May 2010. Nyberg is being replaced due to a temporary medical condition. Nyberg will be assigned to a technical role while she awaits a future assignment.
Kelly previously served as the pilot of STS-108 in 2001 and STS-121 in 2006, and commander for STS-124 in 2008. He was born in Orange, N.J., and considers West Orange, N.J., to be his hometown. Kelly has a bachelor's degree from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, King's
Point, N.Y., and a master's degree from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif.
Johnson previously flew as a pilot on STS-123 in 2008. He was born in South Ruislip, Middlesex, United Kingdom, but graduated from Park Hills High School in Fairborn, Ohio. Johnson has a bachelor's from the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., and master's degrees from Columbia University and the University of Texas, Austin.
Fincke is a veteran of two long-duration missions aboard the space station. He served as the NASA science officer and flight engineer on Expedition 9, and commander for Expedition 18. He was born in Pittsburgh and considers Emsworth, Pa., his hometown. He has an Associate Science degree from El Camino College in Torrance, Calif., two bachelor's degrees from the assachusetts Institute of Technology, and master's degrees from Stanford University and the University of Houston - Clear Lake.
Chamitoff, also a veteran of a long-duration spaceflight, served as NASA science officer and a flight engineer on Expeditions 17 and 18. He was born in Montreal and grew up in San Jose, Calif. He holds a bachelor's degree from California Polytechnic State University, a master's degree from the California Institute of Technology, a second master's degree from UHCL and a doctorate from MIT.
STS-134 is the second mission for Feustel, who flew as a mission specialist on STS-125 in May. He has an Associate Science degree from Oakland Community College, Mich., a bachelor's and a master's degree from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind., and a doctorate from Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Feustel considers Lake Orion, Mich., his hometown.
Vittori is a veteran of two prior spaceflights to the space station aboard the Russian Soyuz spacecraft. He was born in Viterbo, Italy. He received his bachelor's degree from the Italian Air Force Academy and earned master's degrees from the University of Naples and University of Perugia.
This will be the second mission for Good, who flew on STS-125. He was born in Parma, Ohio, and considers Broadview Heights, Ohio to be his hometown. He holds bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Notre Dame.
For complete astronaut biographical information, visit:
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/bios
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WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK
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I hope this email finds you well! I wanted to let you know about a couple of upcoming, space-related programs on National Geographic Channel. ALIEN EARTHS and NAKED SCIENCE: HAWKING’S UNIVERSE will air back-to-back on Sunday, August 23.
Below are respective program descriptions, links to the program Website, as well some images and embeddable videos:
[note - left the embedded code out of note - LRK -]
ALIEN EARTHS
Sunday, August 23 at 9PM ET/PT
http://channel.
Join leading astronomers on a visual journey beyond our solar system in search of planets like Earth. Using CGI animation, we’ll explore bizarre worlds that stretch our imagination: planets with iron rain and hot ice, with diamonds everywhere, and endless oceans of gas. Planets with abnormal orbital patterns and planets with no pattern at all that drift alone in the Milky Way. Planets so strange we never could have predicted them before. Could life exist there?
Video #1 – Extreme conditions abound on planemos. But spring and fall are just right. Can life survive beyond the Goldilocks Zone?
Link: http://channel.
Video #2 – Adrift in space with no star to keep them warm, some planemos still manage to support life.
Link: http://channel.
Video #3 – “Planetary zombies” can orbit a pulsar, but radiation makes it impossible for life of any kind to survive on them.
Link: http://channel.
On our ALIEN EARTHS program Website, you can also:
Navigate the Planetary Investigation Lab and explore 3D life form rotations, videos, photos and high resolution concept art.
http://channel.
Learn about current and future NASA missions, including the Keck Interferometer Telescopes, Spitzer Space Telescope, and the Kepler Mission.
http://channel.
Check out a photo gallery of the planets, and more.
http://channel.
NAKED SCIENCE: HAWKING’S UNIVERSE
Sunday, August 23 at 10PM ET/PT
http://channel.
Stephen Hawking is one of the world’s most famous scientists. But ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease, has left him almost totally paralyzed and it is progressing. Unable to walk, talk, or write, his only way of communicating is through a computer program that turns a small movement of a finger or the blink of an eye, into words from a vocal synthesizer. But Hawking remains determined to discover a theory of everything, a complete set of rules for the Universe. Where did the Universe come from and where is it going? What is the nature of time?
Will it ever come to an end? This program will explore Hawking’s major contributions to the understanding of our Universe - from his revolutionary proof that our Universe originated in a Big Bang; to his ground breaking discovery that Black Holes are not completely black,
but rather emit radiation and eventually evaporate and disappear, to his insights on string theory. Will he unlock the secret of creation before his time runs out?
Video #1 – No one's found the Theory of Everything yet, but when Hawking discovers that black holes emit radiation, he gets very close.
Link: http://channel.
Video #2 – When Hawking loses his voice to a tracheotomy, new speech software technology keeps his research on track.
Link: http://channel.
Please let me know if I can provide you with any additional information. Thank you for your time and have a great week!
Best,
Minjae
snip
http://minjaeormes.com/
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I hope we continue to have TV programs that inform us about space and help generate an interest exploring the unknown.
Thanks for looking up with me.
Larry Kellogg
Web Site: http://lkellogg.vttoth.com/
BlogSpot: http://kelloggserialreports.
RSS link: http://kelloggserialreports.
Newsletter: https://news.altair.com/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/lrkellogg
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Next mission to the ISS and NASA letting us know who is going. - LRK -
Stockton CA just up the road from me, maybe one of these Astronauts from your neighborhood.
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MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-149
INDIANA ASTRONAUT TO FLY ON NEXT SPACE SHUTTLE MISSION
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA astronaut Kevin Ford, who was born in Portland, Ind., and considers Montpelier, Ind., his hometown, will serve as the pilot on space shuttle Discovery's next mission to the International Space Station.
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http://www.nasa.gov/home/
MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-150
TEXAS ASTRONAUT TO FLY ON NEXT SPACE SHUTTLE MISSION
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA astronaut Patrick Forrester, who was born in El Paso, Texas, will make his third journey into orbit on space shuttle Discovery's next mission to the International Space Station.
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http://www.nasa.gov/home/
MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-151
TWO CALIFORNIA ASTRONAUTS TO FLY ON NEXT SPACE SHUTTLE MISSION
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.-- NASA's next space shuttle mission will carry two California- born astronauts into orbit.
Veteran space flier Rick Sturckow, from Lakeside, Calif., will command shuttle Discovery's mission to the International Space Station. Jose Hernandez, who considers Stockton, Calif., his hometown, will make his first trip to space.
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http://www.nasa.gov/home/
MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-152
FLORIDA NATIVE TO LIVE ABOARD INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Nicole Stott, a native of Clearwater, Fla., will make her first journey into orbit on space shuttle Discovery's upcoming mission to the International Space Station. She will live and work aboard the station for three months.
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http://www.nasa.gov/home/
MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-153
TEXAS NATIVE TO FLY ON NEXT SHUTTLE MISSION
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA astronaut Danny Olivas, born and raised in El Paso, Texas, will conduct three spacewalks during the upcoming space shuttle mission to the International Space Station. This is the first shuttle flight to feature two Latino astronauts, Olivas and Jose Hernandez who are both of Mexican descent.
Discovery is targeted to launch at 1:36 a.m. EDT, Aug. 25, from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. To cover the launch on-site, U.S. reporters must request Kennedy credentials online at: https://media.ksc.nasa.gov
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http://www.nasa.gov/home/
MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-154
VIRGINIA ASTRONAUT TO FLY ON NEXT SPACE SHUTTLE MISSION
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA astronaut Patrick Forrester, whose hometown is Springfield, Va., will make his third journey into orbit on space shuttle Discovery's next mission to the International Space Station.
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http://www.nasa.gov/home/
RELEASE: 09-187
NASA ASSIGNS CREW FOR STS-134 SHUTTLE MISSION, CHANGE TO STS-132
WASHINGTON -- NASA has assigned the crew for space shuttle mission STS-134 to the International Space Station. The flight will deliver the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, or AMS, to the station. The AMS is a state-of-the-art cosmic ray particle physics detector designed to examine fundamental issues about matter and the origin and structure of the universe.
Navy Capt. Mark Kelly will command the STS-134 mission. Retired Air Force Col. Gregory H. Johnson will serve as the pilot. Mission Specialists are Air Force Col. Michael Fincke, Greg Chamitoff and Andrew Feustel. European Space Agency astronaut and Italian Air Force Col. Roberto Vittori also will serve as a mission specialist.
The flight will include three spacewalks and the installation of the AMS to the exterior of the space station using both the shuttle and station arms. The AMS will be attached to the right side of the station's truss, or backbone.
NASA also has named Air Force Col. Michael Good to replace Karen Nyberg on shuttle Atlantis' STS-132 mission, targeted to launch in May 2010. Nyberg is being replaced due to a temporary medical condition. Nyberg will be assigned to a technical role while she awaits a future assignment.
Kelly previously served as the pilot of STS-108 in 2001 and STS-121 in 2006, and commander for STS-124 in 2008. He was born in Orange, N.J., and considers West Orange, N.J., to be his hometown. Kelly has a bachelor's degree from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, King's
Point, N.Y., and a master's degree from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif.
Johnson previously flew as a pilot on STS-123 in 2008. He was born in South Ruislip, Middlesex, United Kingdom, but graduated from Park Hills High School in Fairborn, Ohio. Johnson has a bachelor's from the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., and master's degrees from Columbia University and the University of Texas, Austin.
Fincke is a veteran of two long-duration missions aboard the space station. He served as the NASA science officer and flight engineer on Expedition 9, and commander for Expedition 18. He was born in Pittsburgh and considers Emsworth, Pa., his hometown. He has an Associate Science degree from El Camino College in Torrance, Calif., two bachelor's degrees from the assachusetts Institute of Technology, and master's degrees from Stanford University and the University of Houston - Clear Lake.
Chamitoff, also a veteran of a long-duration spaceflight, served as NASA science officer and a flight engineer on Expeditions 17 and 18. He was born in Montreal and grew up in San Jose, Calif. He holds a bachelor's degree from California Polytechnic State University, a master's degree from the California Institute of Technology, a second master's degree from UHCL and a doctorate from MIT.
STS-134 is the second mission for Feustel, who flew as a mission specialist on STS-125 in May. He has an Associate Science degree from Oakland Community College, Mich., a bachelor's and a master's degree from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind., and a doctorate from Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Feustel considers Lake Orion, Mich., his hometown.
Vittori is a veteran of two prior spaceflights to the space station aboard the Russian Soyuz spacecraft. He was born in Viterbo, Italy. He received his bachelor's degree from the Italian Air Force Academy and earned master's degrees from the University of Naples and University of Perugia.
This will be the second mission for Good, who flew on STS-125. He was born in Parma, Ohio, and considers Broadview Heights, Ohio to be his hometown. He holds bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Notre Dame.
For complete astronaut biographical information, visit:
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/bios
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WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK
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