This was an unexpected find on SpaceNews.com today. I took the photo above of Elon Musk while I was working as the digital strategist and community manager for the Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee. The “Augustine Committee” lasted through the summer of 2009 and this photo was taken at a public meeting held to discuss the future of human spaceflight in the United States. Elon Musk’s SpaceX presentation occurs about 30 minutes into this video:
My Photo of Elon Musk was an unexpected find today.
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The Future of Film – The Matrix Made in Source Filmmaker
Valve, creators of the Source game engine, recently released their machinima filmmaking tool Source Filmmaker (SFM). Mainstream releases of movies made with game engines is near. If you’ve caught Valve’s animated short…
Parov Stelar – Booty Swing
But it’s easy to see how this video, though posted several months ago is starting to go viral. It makes even a stodgy old man like me wax nostalgic for the days when gangstas were zoot-suited and class-over-swag were the currency of cool.
What is the David Bowie Song in the Kia Cadenza “Reunion” Commercial?
If you’ve seen the Kia Candenza “Reunion” ad you’ve heard the excellent custom “Let’s Dance” InFiction String Remix. If you haven’t heard it, here’s an auditory treat worth listening to:
Vintage 1977 NASA Video talks about Voyager 1
On September 12, 2013, NASA officially announced that Voyager 1 had left the solar system and begun it’s journey into interstellar space. Voyager 1 was launched on September 5, 1977 to study the outer Solar System and interstellar medium. As of August 2013, it is 125 Astronomical Units (AU) from the Sun. One AU is equivalent to the average distance of the Earth to the Sun, roughly 145.5 billion miles. Voyager is currently the furthest man-made object from Earth.
As a throwback to the year Voyager 1 was launched, we found NASA’s Highlights of the 1977 Aeronautics and Space Report. The report outlines some of NASA’s projects at the time, including the Space Shuttle, Voyagers, Landsat, Spacelab, HEAO-1 and energy research.
Russian Plane Crash Caught on Video
A Tupolev Tu-204 passenger plane overshot a Russian airport on Saturday, December 29, 2012. This amazing footage was shot from a highway beside Vnukovo International Airport and captures the moment debris begins to spill on to the road. Five are reported to have died during the crash…
A Trailer tells us who would win in a fight between Batman vs The Terminator
Hypothetically speaking, who would win in a fight, Batman or The Terminator?
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ahhh the memories of HSF , was this at Carneige Mellon Institute in DC
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Yep. Carnegie Institution for Science on June 17, 2009.