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NASA's 50th Anniversary - Discovery Channel
Discovery ChannelNASA's 50th AnniversaryDiscovery Channel - 8 hours agoJuly 29, 2008 — Fifty years ago today, United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act into existence. …

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Xeni kicks the tech tires on Virgin America.

[Xeni Jardin]: Last week, the Boing Boing tv crew was in San Francisco shooting a few upcoming episodes, and our friends at Virgin America (BBtv is shown on the in-flight entertainment system) invited us to come wander around behind security, and peek at the nuts and bolts that are the tech underpinnings of this airline.

They’re about to launch in-flight wireless internet soon, and they’re holding a competition for open source games, the winners of which will be available for people to play in-flight (entries are still being accepted).

Virgin America’s head of in-flight entertainment, Charles Ogilvie, brought us on board a plane that was empty and at rest between flights. We poked around with the computers and displays (all Linux!) and we tried to IM our friends using the pilot’s controls in the cockpit. This did not work so well.

My favorite part of this sh

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50th Anniversary of the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958
Fifty years ago today, the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 was passed into law. It was accompanied by an Executive Order that transferred most of the nation?s space-related assets from various parts of the Federal Government …

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Why We Explore; The Birth of NASA
Fifty years ago, however the agency that pushed the frontiers of aeronautics, took us to the moon, flew the space shuttle, built the International Space Station and revealed the secrets of the cosmos, was in its birth throes, and fundamental decisions were being made that profoundly shaped all that was to come

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