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Tough and Competent — Russ Garrett
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On January 27th 1967, the Apollo 1. Spacecraft suffered a catastrophic launchpad fire at Cape Canaveral, killing the three astronauts aboard. The following Monday, 44 years ago today, Gene Kranz gave this speech to his team:. Rsquo; I don’t know what Thompson’s committee will find as the cause, but I know what I find. We are the cause! We were not ready! We did not do our job. We were rolling the dice, hoping that things would come together by launch day, when in our hearts we knew it would take a mi...
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September | 2013 | inpcblog
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Fear Less, Dare More. What to pack for your trip to Addis, IT Edition. When we packed for our trip to Addis Abeba, capital of Ethopia, I had the following options on the table:. Compact Camera (medium-age Powershot). DSLR Camera (recent EOS Rebel/Kiss/triple digit). Smartphone (two generations old iPhone 4). Tablets (small and large, both WiFi, no 3G/UMTS/FancyStuff™). 13″ Notebook (medium-age as well). 11″ Notebook (2006 Dell D420). Nokia E51 (“dumbphone”). Which is not a good thing when you're out...
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July 2016 - History Gal
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What is Google Drive? Now, my goal is to help my husband, who is a Luddite at heart, start using Google Drive to reduce massive amount of paperwork that swamps him as a high school history teacher. Click on the links to learn about each event. Soviets launch Sputnik I. Explorer, the 1st U.S. satellite is launched. NASA engineers test space capsule using chimpanzees. Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first person to orbit Earth. May 5, 1961. May 25, 1961. Becomes the first American to orbit Earth.
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Space Race Timeline - History Gal
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Click on the links to learn about each event. Soviets launch Sputnik I. Explorer, the 1st U.S. satellite is launched. NASA engineers test space capsule using chimpanzees. Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first person to orbit Earth. May 5, 1961. Alan Shepard, Jr. becomes the first American to fly into space. May 25, 1961. President Kennedy commits to the goal of landing a man on the moon. Becomes the first American to orbit Earth. Fire in Apollo 1 capsule. Apollo 8 orbits the moon. I promise not...