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On Monday, April 8, 2024, there’ll be a total solar eclipse – and it’ll be the last one to cross North America for 20 years. Make sure you’re tuned in to our live broadcast for this exciting event: there’ll be views from along the path of totality, special guests, and plenty of science.
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And that’s a wrap! Thank you for all the great questions. We hope you learned a little bit about what it takes to work in mission control as a flight director.
If you’re hungry for more, you can read the latest installment of our First Woman graphic novel series, where fictional character Commander Callie Rodriguez embarks on the next phase of her trailblazing journey and leaves the Moon to take the helm at Mission Control.
Keep up with the flight directors, the Space Station, and the Artemis missions at the links below.
Flight directors: X
Artemis: Facebook: Facebook, Instagram, X
Space Station: Facebook, Instagram, X (@Space_Station), X( @ISS_Research)
Make sure to follow us on Tumblr for your regular dose of space!
NEW: Get Out of the City - SOUTH PARK
Lake Street Dive has announced a new batch of North American spring and summer tour dates. Following its previously announced shows in upstate New York in May, the band will head to Toronto on June 1 and continue through the US East and Midwest, making stops in Pennsylvania, Vermont, Connecticut, New Jersey, Michigan, Ohio, Missouri, Wisconsin, and more, including a return to NYC's Radio City Music Hall. Lake Street Dive has partnered with PLUS1 so that $1 per ticket goes to supporting the Climate Justice Alliance and their work uniting frontline communities and organizations into a formidable force in the climate movement. Details/tickets here.
Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder talk with writer Lynell George about the making of their new album, GET ON BOARD: The Songs of Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, out April 22 on Nonesuch Records. Video directed by Jeff Coffman.
A.R.E-Augmented Reality Exhibition from Vetro Editions on Vimeo.
Curated by Generative Hut, a collaborative platform dedicated to bringing together generative artists from around the world and Vetro Editions, acclaimed independent publishing house, A.R.E features the very best of Generative Art – art created through the use of a computer or other autonomous systems.
Featuring artworks from 31 international generative artists, A.R.E is like no other art book. It takes you through a unique immersive art experience by inviting you to discover the artworks in augmented reality. Each page includes a hidden key which unlocks a digital animation using a free app – bringing the pieces of art to life. This interactive feature allows you to explore the artworks as they were designed to be viewed by the artists. By merging the physical and digital worlds, the book opens up new ways of experiencing art from anywhere.
A.R.E - Augmented Reality Exhibition 80 pages + cover, Swiss bound, softcover. with a free app to access Augmented Reality English, 20 x 25 cm Price: 42€ + shipping worldwide Early bird discount 36€ + shipping worldwide Publication date: September 2021
U.S. Public Health Service, 1942. NARA ID 514791.
Mask Mandates are ALL AMERICAN!*
"What is Past is Prologue."** This is not the first time Americans have been instructed to wear masks to stay safe. Check out these WW2 posters and see how gov't communicators tried to interest/educate/inform (and sometimes scare) the American public!
TAKE CARE OF YOUR MASK... OR ELSE! NARA ID 514846.
MASK TIPS FOR GLAMOROUS WOMEN! NARA ID 44266530.
BE PREPARED! NARA ID 44266634.
YOUR MASK IS NOT A PILLOW or KNAPSACK! NARA IDs 514038 and 514110.
STAY FIT! WEAR A MASK! NARA ID 535277.
*Speaking of All American, stay tuned for our upcoming exhibit: ALL AMERICAN: The Power of Sports.
**'Future' statue by Robert Aiken. Photo by Jeff Reed.
Popcorn truck 1941, NARA ID 283764.
Happy #National POPCORN Day!
NY Giant Harry Carson showers President Reagan in popcorn 2/13/1987, NARA ID 75855283
President Obama @ Oregon State v. GWU hoops, 11/28/2009, NARA ID 176553126.
Label for Cracker Jacks, 1/14/18, NARA ID 20737628.
"Real Food Value" pamphlet 1918. NARA ID 20737627. Description: Rueckheim Bros & Eckstein published this pamphlet which described the nutritional value of Cracker Jack and its benefits for food conservation.
Bullfight popcorn label 1901, NARA ID 44270997.
Product label/poem for Beech-Nut popcorn bars 1920. NARA ID 79443346.
🏊♂️ Down for a dip in the Cosmic Reef?
Nicknamed the Cosmic Reef because it resembles an undersea world, this is a vast star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.
Released in April 2020 to celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope’s 30th anniversary, the reef showcases the beauty and mystery of space in this complex image of starbirth. Throughout its decades of discoveries, Hubble has yielded over 1.5 million observations, providing data that astronomers around the world have used to write more than 18,000 peer-reviewed scientific publications, making it the most prolific space observatory in history.
Learn more about Hubble’s celebration of Nebula November and see new nebula images, here.
You can also keep up with Hubble on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and Flickr!
Image credits: NASA, ESA, and STScI
These three towers are only a small portion of the massive Eagle Nebula.
Known as the “Pillars of Creation,” the beautiful tendrils of cosmic dust and gas are giving birth to new stars, buried within their spires. This iconic image only shows a stretch of about four or five light-years … while the whole nebula itself spans about 70 by 55 light-years.
Learn more about Hubble’s celebration of Nebula November and see new nebula images, here.
You can also keep up with Hubble on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and Flickr!
Image credits: NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
ED ASNER IN CIA TRAINING FILM, 1956!
NEWLY DISCOVERED: Suspects and Witnesses, NARA ID 653047. By Miriam Kleiman, Public Affairs
Mary Tyler Moore's Mary Richards shattered TV gender norms. Unapologetically strong, bright, capable, and funny, she was a role model to me and others.
The heart of the show is her often-challenging relationship with grumpy-but-kindhearted boss Lou Grant, played by Ed Asner who died yesterday (whom she called "Mr. Grant" for all 7 seasons).
Asner is well-remembered as an incredible character actor but lesser known as an Army veteran and activist. Searching through our always-interesting holdings, I found this CIA training film of 27 year-old Ed Asner as a brilliantly hostile witness. Recognize these expressions of anger, disgust, and scorn?
See also:
Ed Asner & President Carter, 2/28/1979, NARA ID 183724.
Asked by a reporter about a standout "brush-with-greatness,” Asner recalled this meeting and his longtime regret:
I carry guilt because I didn’t vote for Jimmy Carter in the 2nd election. I voted for John Anderson. I thought it would be a nice break from supporting a Democrat automatically. But I had met Jimmy Carter. I liked what I saw... What he’s done since leaving the office of the presidency has been ideal. He’s acted like a great man. I thought he was a good president. I don’t know why I decided to vote for John Anderson, other than as a way to break my habit. I realized later that the votes Anderson got might have been enough bring Carter on par with Ronald Reagan. I regretted that. That’s why I never went for another 3rd party candidate after that. Ed Asner, Kansas City Star, 2016.
Ed Asner in PSA for HUD, 1978
From Romancing the Vanpool: Energy Conservation on Film, Unwritten Record blog by Heidi Holstrom. NARA ID 38539.
Captain Charles E. Yeager, 5/1948, NARA ID 542345.
XS-1 in flight, speed of sound GIF, NARA ID 295649.
FASTER THAN THE SPEED OF SOUND! #OTD 1947 USAF Capt. Chuck Yeager breaks sound barrier!
Yeager made history on Oct. 14, 1947, when he climbed out of a B-29 bomber as it ascended over the Mojave Desert and entered the cockpit of an orange, bullet-shaped, rocket-powered experimental plane attached to the bomb bay. The plane was a Bell Aircraft X-1, at an altitude of 23,000 feet, and when he reached 43,000 feet, history’s first sonic boom reverberated across the floor of the dry lake beds. He reached 700 miles an hour, breaking the sound barrier. His initial response to this incredible feat?
After all the anticipation to achieve this moment, it really was a letdown. There should’ve been a bump in the road, something to let you know that you had just punched a nice, clean hole through the sonic barrier. The Unknown was a poke through Jell-O. Later on, I realized that this mission had to end in a letdown because the real barrier wasn’t in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight.From Yeager’s memoir:
XS-1 control panel, online here.
Yeager, safely on the ground, reviews his records at the National Archives at College Park, 9/16/2013.
Author Tom Wolfe described "Right Stuff" legendary aviator, WWII fighter ace and USAF General Yeager as “the most righteous of all the possessors of the right stuff.” His bio reads like a Harrison Ford/Nicholas Cage/Tom Cruise adventure film hybrid, especially given that Yeager:
Had only a high school education.
Got airsick his first time in plane.
Enlisted at age 18 as a mechanic, and 2 years later was a pilot
Not only did he break the sound barrier, he did so with 2 broken ribs!
Pilot’s Notes from the Ninth Powered Flight of the XS-1, NARA ID 295644
Yeager was a fighter ace in WWII, shooting down 5 German planes in a single day and 13 total. He was shot down over occupied France in March 1944 and rescued by the French resistance. In appreciation, he showed them how to make homemade bombs! Read his incredible personal account here.
Escape and Evasion Case File for Flight Officer Chuck Yeager, NARA ID 305272.
He became a test pilot after WWII, at what became Edwards Air Force Base. Not only did he break the sound barrier, he did so with 2 broken ribs! He’d fallen off a horse and broke two ribs the night before the flight, and went to a civilian doctor rather than risk not being able to attempt the flight. Because of the secrecy of the X-1 project, Yeager’s achievement was not announced until June 1948. He continued to serve as a test pilot, and in 1953 he flew 1,650 miles per hour in an X-1A rocket plane.
He was the first commandant of the USAF Aerospace Research Pilot School and trained astronauts and test pilots for the Air Force. But given that he only had a high school education, he could not be an astronaut.
He flew 414 hours of combat time in the Vietnam war - 127 missions while training bomber pilots. He was promoted to Brigadier General in 1969.He retired from the Air Force in 1975, but continued to work for the Air Force until 1995. President Reagan appointed him to the Rogers Commission, the body that investigated the 1986 Challenger Shuttle disaster. Yeager died on December 7, 2020, at age 97.
Yeager was very modest about his accomplishments:
All I know is I worked my tail off learning to learn how to fly, and worked hard at it all the way. If there is such a thing as the right stuff in piloting, then it is experience. The secret to my success was that somehow I always managed to live to fly another day. Yeager’s memoir.
More online:
Chuck Yeager – Evader, March 1944, Text Message blog by archivist David Langbart.
[A man and a woman standing in a kitchen. Caption: Finally, the scientist must think of a title for the song.]
How will the audio feed from Perseverance make its way back to Earth?
*cries*
