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Dark Mission: The Secret History of NASA
By: Richard C. Hoagland
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For most Americans, the word NASA suggests a squeaky-clean image of technological infallibility.

Yet the truth is that NASA was born in a lie, and has concealed the truths about its occult origins. Dark Mission documents this seemingly wild assertion.

Why is the Bush administration intent on returning to the moon as quickly as possible? What are the reasons for the current ?space race? with China, Russia, and India? Remarkable images reproduced within this book provided to author Richard C. Hoagland by disaffected NASA employees provide clues why, including information about suppressed lunar discoveries.

Mystical organizations quietly dominate NASA, carrying out their own secret agendas behind the scenes. This is the story of men at the very fringes of rational thought and conventional wisdom, operating at the highest levels of our country. Their policies are far more aligned with ancient religions and secret mystery schools than the facade of rational science NASA has successfully promoted to the world for almost fifty years.

Dark Mission is proof of the secret history of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the astonishing, seminal discoveries it has repeatedly suppressed for decades.

Richard C. Hoagland is the former science advisor to CBS News, author of The Monuments of Mars, and a frequent guest on the popular radio programs Coast To Coast and The Art Bell Show.

Mike Bara is a consulting engineer for Boeing aircraft. This is his first book.

America In Space: NASA's First Fifty Years
By: Steven Dick
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NASA launches a yearlong celebration of its 50th anniversary in the fall of 2007, and Abrams is privileged to publish this visual history of its many achievements in manned and unmanned space travel. Written and edited by a team of experienced NASA staffers, and illustrated with many unpublished and rare photographs from the voluminous NASA archives scattered across the country, America in Space offers an unparalleled vision of half a century of exploration and discovery.

The story of America?s space age is told with more than 400 carefully selected images. The story begins in the 1950s with intrepid test pilots venturing ever faster and higher, and opens out into the now-legendary Mercury and Apollo missions of the 1960s that made astronauts into national heroes. The space shuttle era shows us what everyday space travel might look like, while grand vistas of the universe expand our sense of wonder. The large format of the book captures both the human drama and the vast scale of NASA?s projects. America in Space is a photographic record of the greatest adventure of our time.

NASA/ART: 50 Years of Exploration
By: James D. Dean
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Artists, like astronauts, are constantly probing into the unknown. It is fitting that, shortly after the establishment of NASA in 1958, the NASA Art Program was created on the principle that artists are uniquely equipped to interpret and document the experience of space exploration. In the program?s early years, artists as diverse as Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, Norman Rockwell, and James Wyeth participated. Over time, the Art Program has commissioned work from many of the world?s most distinguished artists. The collection includes works by Alexander Calder, Nam June Paik, William Wegman, Mike and Doug Starn, Vija Celmins, and Annie Leibovitz.

Along with a two-year touring exhibition with the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES), NASA/Art celebrates the 50th anniversary of NASA in October 2008 with an expanded selection of the best work created for the NASA Art Program, and stands as a lasting record of the impact of space exploration on the artistic imagination.

Nasa: The Complete Illustrated History
By: Michael Gorn
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This fascinating book ? now updated and available in paperback to mark the 50th anniversary of NASA in 2008 ? tells the remarkable history of America?s unrivalled contribution to the exploration of space from the early twentieth century to the present. Award-winning historian Michael H. Gorn covers every US space mission ever undertaken, including those of projects Mercury, Gemini and Apollo, and the development of the Space Shuttle, and brings the story up to date by explaining the functions of NASA?s two windows in space: the Hubble Space Telescope and the International Space Station. This is the first illustrated history of NASA ? the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ? ever to be published. It reveals the personalities involved ? the personal ambitions and temperaments of astronauts, scientists and engineers, and the influence of America?s presidents on the US space programme ? as much as the technological advances that have made space exploration possible. Authoritatively and engagingly written, the book is profusely illustrated throughout with 500 stunning photographs.

Orbit: NASA Astronauts Photograph the Earth
By: Jay Apt
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On his historic 1962 orbital flight, John Glenn made a request to carry a camera. From that moment forward photography became a vital duty for all astronauts. In this astonishing book, National Geographic gathers the most spectacular images from 41 years of orbital photography?many never before seen?to reveal an astronaut?s view of home.

Each photograph featured in Orbit was taken by a NASA astronaut with a hand-held camera and features detail that far exceeds the electronic images sent from satellites. These photographs capture the most magnificent sights on earth: Mount Everest casting its shadow over lesser peaks, the sands of the Sahara arrayed in endless patterns, the eerily atmospheric aurora australis. And they document the effects of human negligence on the Earth: pollution, scarred forests, and topsoil washing into the sea. As Americans contemplate the U.S. space program in the wake of recent tragedy, Orbit is an excellent reminder of the magnificent achievements of space travel.

Detailed maps, ground-based photographs, and informative captions give further depth to this definitive and remarkable history of how our Earth has changed since we first ventured into space.

• The Warming Earth Blows Hot, Cold and Chaotic
JANUARY 2, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO -- Three independent research groups have concluded that 2008 was a comparatively cool year on planet Earth -- a feverish chill on our warming world. The year's average global temperature was the 9th or 10th warmest since reliable record-keeping began in 1850, and the coldest since the turn of the 21st century, according to separate surveys by the United Nations' World Meteorological Organization, NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies, and the U.S. National Clim • How Many External Monitors are Attached to your Computer?
Microsoft Research suggests that adding another monitor to your computer is good as multiple screens make computing tasks easier and can enhance users? productivity by as much as 9 percent. You may have seen workstations having one or two external screens but nothing like Mitch Haile?s work environment - he works on 9 desktop screens simultaneously and of these 9 screens, 6 are attached to just one Mac computer. Some pictures. He uses a 21600 x 21600 NASA image for the desktop background • NASA research balloon hears mystery cosmic noise
And here's another curve ball from the cosmos. A team from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland said Thursday that it has discovered cosmic radio noise that booms six times louder than expected. The noise was discovered by an instrument called ARCADE, which was carried by a balloon launched from NASA's facility in Palestine, Texas, in July 2006. The balloon flew to an altitude of 120,000 feet, where the atmosphere thins into the vacuum of space. The mission was sup • yahoo! friday at last!! :)
1. i?m soooooo glad that this week is over. it was really hard for me to get through the week while at work. i feel so sleepy all the time (especially in the afternoon) and it?s so darn hard to try to stay awak in the middle of a meeting or even when i?m talking to my boss. lol. thank God no one has noticed me nodding off (or they might just be too polite to say anything. lol).2. but i?m also excited about this coming weekend because it?s mark?s birthday tomorrow!!! (happy birthday, sweetie.) h • Watch STS-119 Mission Briefings Live
Today space shuttle Discovery's crew of seven astronauts and NASA managers will participate a day of media briefings on the next shuttle mission, targeted for launch Feb. 12 from Kennedy Space Center. You can watch the briefings live here on The Flame Trench starting at 9 a.m. Just click on the image at left to launch a NASA TV viewer. The STS-119 mission will install the final piece of the International Space Station's skeletal backbone, a 31,000 pound girder that holds a final set of Am

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