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• 90 Days in the Hole 

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  8:14 am on 06/06/2012 | SCIENCE ( 654 ), TECH ( 1,148 ), VIDS ( 1,639 )   

  I wonder where these guys are now. They would be in their 60s.

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• Growing Plants in Lunar Soil 

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  8:14 am on 06/06/2012 | SCIENCE ( 654 ), VIDS ( 1,639 )   

  NASA scientists were able to grow plants in Moon dirt.

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• Guess You Can Only be a Lab Technician 

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  8:14 am on 06/06/2012 | RAGE ( 507 ), SCIENCE ( 654 ), TECH ( 1,148 )   

  Lab Technician Set

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• Forever alone 

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  8:14 am on 06/06/2012 | CUTE ( 835 ), SCIENCE ( 654 ), TECH ( 1,148 ), VIDS ( 1,639 )   

  Viking spacecraft wait for the first humans to visit Mars.

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  4:57 pm on 06/03/2012 | ARTS ( 1,607 ), CUTE ( 835 ), SCIENCE ( 654 ), TECH ( 1,148 ), VIDS ( 1,639 )   

  Ingenious, lightning-fast computing machines designed to compute artillery firing tables.

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• Apollo 15 Astronauts Cancel a Stamp on the Moon 

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  4:50 pm on 06/03/2012 | CUTE ( 835 ), SCIENCE ( 654 ), TECH ( 1,148 ), VIDS ( 1,639 )   

  Apollo 15 Astronaut Scott Cancels a Stamp on the Moon

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• Elections Depend on the Most Trivial of Things 

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  4:50 pm on 06/03/2012 | ARTS ( 1,607 ), CUTE ( 835 ), RAGE ( 507 )   

  The minor tragedies of life.

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• Is there nothing Orson Welles can’t do perfectly? 

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  4:50 pm on 06/03/2012 | ARTS ( 1,607 ), SCIENCE ( 654 ), TECH ( 1,148 ), VIDS ( 1,639 )   

  In 1975, Orson Welles made a science promo film for NASA called “Who’s Out There?”

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• Only thing mapping satellites could do in the 1960s 

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  4:49 pm on 06/03/2012 | CUTE ( 835 ), SCIENCE ( 654 ), TECH ( 1,148 ), VIDS ( 1,639 )   

  Simplicity itself.

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• The Drama of Transportation 

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  7:17 am on 05/31/2012 | ARTS ( 1,607 ), CUTE ( 835 ), SCIENCE ( 654 ), TECH ( 1,148 ), VIDS ( 1,639 )   

  Patriotic call from Ford V-8 trucks. The vital drama of transportation – courteous men and dependable machines.

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• NASA Mad Max Chase Car 

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  7:16 am on 05/31/2012 | CUTE ( 835 ), SCIENCE ( 654 ), TECH ( 1,148 ), VIDS ( 1,639 )   

  Only a brief clip of one of NASA’s cool chase cars chasing a Heavy Lift Body.

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• Apollo 13 Understated 

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  7:16 am on 05/31/2012 | CUTE ( 835 ), SCIENCE ( 654 ), TECH ( 1,148 ), VIDS ( 1,639 )   

  NASA’s somewhat understated summary of Apollo 13.

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• Back when America manufactured things 

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  7:16 am on 05/31/2012 | ARTS ( 1,607 ), CUTE ( 835 ), VIDS ( 1,639 )   

  Remember when America manufactured lots of things & hauled them in Ford trucks. 1940 film.

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  7:16 am on 05/31/2012 | SCIENCE ( 654 ), VIDS ( 1,639 )   

  Chasing the 1966 Solar Eclipse across South America.

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• Cheerful Censors at Work 

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  7:16 am on 05/31/2012 | CUTE ( 835 ), RAGE ( 507 ), TECH ( 1,148 ), VIDS ( 1,639 )   

  Things were a little different during World War 2 — one could expect their mail to be read by a stranger.

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• Aerial Ballet of Refuelling the F-22 

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  8:23 am on 05/21/2012 | SCIENCE ( 654 ), TECH ( 1,148 ), VIDS ( 1,639 )   

  F-22 Raptor refuel.

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  8:23 am on 05/21/2012 | ARTS ( 1,607 ), CUTE ( 835 ), VIDS ( 1,639 )   

  Aggressor Annie’s sexy propaganda voice.

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• I’m Giving a TED Talk! (In My Living Room) 

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  8:23 am on 05/21/2012 | ARTS ( 1,607 ), CUTE ( 835 ), RAGE ( 507 ), VIDS ( 1,639 )   

  Laura Zigman on Ted Talks.

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• Looks dangerous 

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  8:23 am on 05/21/2012 | ARTS ( 1,607 ), SCIENCE ( 654 ), TECH ( 1,148 )   

  Last chopper out.

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• Chaos theory of phone charger cords 

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  8:23 am on 05/21/2012 | RAGE ( 507 ), SCIENCE ( 654 ), TECH ( 1,148 ), VIDS ( 1,639 )   

  Maybe ask Siri to help.

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• G.I. Ingenuity – Quad Bazooka 

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  8:23 am on 05/21/2012 | SCIENCE ( 654 ), TECH ( 1,148 ), VIDS ( 1,639 )   

  Mini-artillery.

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• Scramble the B-52s 

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  8:23 am on 05/21/2012 | CUTE ( 835 ), SCIENCE ( 654 ), TECH ( 1,148 ), VIDS ( 1,639 )   

  Great music. Why does the guy say “Klaxon, klaxon, klaxon?”

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• Uniquely human view of the Apollo 11 astronauts 

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  11:39 am on 05/18/2012 | ARTS ( 1,607 ), CUTE ( 835 ), SCIENCE ( 654 ), TECH ( 1,148 )   

  

  Apollo 11 astronauts and families.

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• NASA Cool Suit 

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  10:53 am on 05/17/2012 | SCIENCE ( 654 ), TECH ( 1,148 ), VIDS ( 1,639 )   

  Vintage NASA video explains how a boy born with no sweat glands now lives a relatively normal life.

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• The scary days of human testing 

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  4:06 pm on 05/15/2012 | SCIENCE ( 654 ), TECH ( 1,148 ), VIDS ( 1,639 )   

  Rocket Sled Pioneers — critical condition, but 5 days later he was back to work.

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