Welcome to the National Air and Space Museum
Student orientation video for school groups planning a visit to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum on the National Mall in Washington, DC. See for more information.
Walking to National Mall Washington DC Air & Space Museum Entrance
Was in Washington DC for a work trip. Stayed at the Marriot Marquis for a couple of nights. This weekend morning, I took a walk from the hotel to the National Mall. I wanted to visit the Air & Space museum first. This video showed you some scenes of the walk. By the time I got there, there was a line waiting to go in!
Here are some flight report links I made for the trip to Washington DC and back.
Singapore Airlines SQ306 - SIN to LHR (Part 2)-
Virgin Atlantic Clubhouse Heathrow Part 1 Breakfast -
Virgin Atlantic Upper Class Flight Report Heathrow to Dulles Part 1 -
Virgin Atlantic Clubhouse Washington DC -
Virgin Atlantic Upper Class Washington to Heathrow (Part 1) -
Singapore Airlines Heathrow to Singapore (Part 1) -
Finding Our Origins with the Hubble & James Webb Space Telescopes
Jonathan Gardner discussed some of the most important astronomical discoveries of the last 20 years, the Hubble Space Telescope's greatest accomplishments and the promise of its successor, the James Webb Space Telescope. Using a flood of data from Hubble, other missions, telescope observations and super-computer simulations, we are starting to piece together the story of how simple particles, mass and energy that formed in the Big Bang changed over time to become galaxies, stars and planets today.
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Korean War Memorial
A brief overview of the Korean War Memorial.
List of planetariums | Wikipedia audio article
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00:00:13 1 Permanent planetariums
00:00:37 1.1 Africa
00:01:21 1.2 Asia
00:06:51 1.3 Europe
00:21:00 1.4 North America
00:21:09 1.4.1 Canada
00:22:56 1.4.2 Costa Rica
00:23:08 1.4.3 Mexico
00:25:50 1.4.4 United States
00:40:49 1.5 Oceania
00:41:41 1.6 South America
00:44:17 2 Planetarium computer software
00:45:02 3 Planetarium manufacturers
00:50:40 4 See also
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This entry is a list of permanent planetariums, including software and manufacturers. In addition, many mobile planetariums exist, touring venues such as schools.
QA Science: Climate and the Deep Blue Sea
Companion Q&A Session to the 2019 #UAScience Lecture Series: #SearchingForCertainty featuring Joellen Russell Associate Professor, Geosciences, University of Arizona and John Pollard, Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs at UA Honors College.
Debate about future of telescope
NASA
1. Various images as processed and relayed to earth from the Hubble Space Telescope
NASA File
December 6, 1993
2. Shuttle mission to repair Hubble Space Telescope
APTN
Washington, DC - 31 July 2003
3. Wide of discussion regarding transition from Hubble Space Telescope to James Webb Space Telescope
4. Profile of speaker with screen listing positive transition points
5. Row of space telescope scientists listening to presentation
6. Screen with positive transition points
7. Pan from speaker to scientific panel charged with deciding the future of Hubble
8. SOUNDBITE: (English) John Mather, Senior Project Scientist, James Webb Space Telescope:
Well, I think the hard question is, 'How long can we keep Hubble going?', because Hubble is up there and it's working beautifully, but we know that it's complex and it wears out with time. And so it's difficult and expensive and risky to put repairs up there. But it's been done well many times, and we can do it again, but it takes a lot of thought and planning to do that well.
9. John Mather with two other scientists
10. Man and woman having conversation
11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Steven Beckwith, Space Telescope Science Institute for Hubble Space Telescope:
So every time you visit it, every time you improve it, you have a new mission. The new Hubble mission. Now, we don't yet know when it's time to turn Hubble off, but we aren't at the end of its possibilities. That is, we could still improve it by at least a factor of ten or more in a lot of different ways. So I think the challenge for the panel is, in the list of all the other priorities, how important is that factor.
NASA Television
12. Starbirth in the Eagle Nebula
APTN
Washington, DC - July 31, 2003
13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Steven Beckwith, Director, Space Telescope Science Institute:
I think Hubble transcends even the agency itself. This is a cultural icon that is testimony to a technically advanced civilisation.
NASA Television
December 8, 1993
14. Hubble Space Telescope released from bay of shuttle and allowed to float free to return to orbit
STORYLINE:
NASA is being forced to weigh the pursuit of science against the cost of the science.
The debate is over the future of the Hubble Space Telescope, which NASA wants to shut down in a matter of years.
But Hubble has become one of the most successful scientific projects that NASA has ever launched.
In hundreds of images the Hubble Space Telescope has given the world both discoveries about the universe, as well as hundreds of beautiful pictures.
Some of those images are stunning new views of familiar objects in the night sky.
Other images are new discoveries that could never have been seen from the surface of the earth even with the most powerful telescopes.
During the 13 year lifetime of Hubble, the space telescope has accounted for a third of all new scientific discoveries at a cost of only two percent of the NASA budget.
One of the big success stories of Hubble is that the telescope was designed from the beginning to be repaired and updated every few years.
The telescope has been visited almost every three years by a shuttle to allow astronauts to switch old instruments for new.
Following the tragic destruction of the space shuttle Columbia, NASA is now rethinking all future space flights and weighing the human costs versus scientific gain.
On Thursday in Washington, concerned scientists and a select panel of astronomers panel met to discuss the future of Hubble and the status of the next round of space telescopes, including the James Webb Space Telescope.
The question before the panel is whether Hubble survives or not, and, if not, how to properly destroy the craft.
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Indian Americans | Wikipedia audio article
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Indian Americans
00:00:34 1 Terminology
00:01:48 2 Indian American immigration
00:01:58 2.1 18th century
00:02:15 2.2 19th century
00:02:59 2.3 20th century
00:05:40 2.4 21st century
00:05:49 3 Demographics
00:09:01 3.1 U.S. metropolitan areas with large Asian Indian populations
00:09:33 3.2 List of U.S. states by population of Asian Indians
00:09:40 4 Statistics on Indians in the U.S.
00:12:25 5 Socioeconomic status
00:13:09 5.1 Education
00:13:38 5.2 Household income
00:14:30 6 Culture
00:14:39 6.1 Entertainment
00:17:00 6.2 Religions
00:18:19 6.2.1 Indian Hindus
00:19:35 6.2.2 Indian Christians
00:20:59 6.2.3 Indian Muslims
00:21:20 6.2.4 Indian Sikhs
00:22:47 6.2.5 Others
00:23:38 6.3 Ethnicity
00:24:55 6.4 Linguistic affiliation
00:25:33 7 Immigration and progression timeline
00:25:43 7.1 Timeline
00:42:26 7.2 Classification
00:43:51 7.3 Citizenship
00:44:14 8 Current social issues
00:44:23 8.1 Discrimination
00:48:13 8.2 Illegal immigration
00:48:59 8.3 Immigration
00:51:14 8.4 Media
00:51:22 9 Politics
00:53:39 10 Notable people
00:53:48 11 See also
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Indian Americans or Indo-Americans, are Americans whose ancestry belongs to any of the many ethnic groups of the Republic of India. According to 2016 American Community Survey data, Indian Americans are the third-largest Asian group in the United States alone or in combination with other races after Chinese Americans and Filipino Americans. The U.S. Census Bureau uses the term Asian Indian to avoid confusion with the indigenous peoples of the Americas commonly referred to as American Indians (or Native Americans or Amerindians).
National Capital Planning Commission Meeting - October 6, 2011
List of Bronx High School of Science alumni | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:14 1 Science
00:01:22 1.1 Nobel Prize-winning scientists
00:02:56 1.2 Other science and engineering alumni
00:08:24 2 Letters and journalism
00:08:33 2.1 Pulitzer Prize winners
00:09:46 2.2 Other alumni in the field of letters and journalism
00:13:24 3 Public service, activism, and government
00:17:01 4 Academia
00:19:18 5 Fine arts
00:19:45 6 Performing arts
00:22:40 7 Business, finance, and economics
00:23:42 8 Sports and competition
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The following is a list of notable people who attended the Bronx High School of Science.
Among the collective honors claimed by alumni of the school are:
Eight Nobel Prizes (seven in physics, one in chemistry).
Six Pulitzer Prizes.
Two sitting members of the United States House of Representatives.
Six winners of the National Medal of Science, the nation's highest scientific honor bestowed by the U.S. President and thus far awarded to 425 scientists and engineers.
Twenty-nine members of the United States National Academy of Sciences (NAS), an honor attained by only about 2,000 American scientists.
Twenty-two Bronx Science graduates are members of the United States National Academy of Engineering (NAE).
Ten are members of the Institute of Medicine (IOM).
One is a member of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC).
Two are recipients of the Turing Award, the top prize in computer science.
Two Academy Awards and two Primetime Emmy Awards.
One Fellow of the American Statistical Association and Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute
Indian American
Indian Americans (also known as Indo Americans) are Americans of Indian ancestry and comprise about 2.81 million people, alone or 3.18 million, combined with one or more races, about 1% of the U.S. population, the country's third largest self-reported Asian ancestry group after Chinese Americans and Filipino Americans, according to American Community Survey of 2010 data. The U.S. Census Bureau uses the term Asian Indian to avoid confusion with the indigenous peoples of the Americas commonly referred to as American Indians.
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Ecuador | Wikipedia audio article
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Ecuador
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Ecuador ( (listen) EK-wə-dor, Spanish: [ekwaˈðoɾ]) (Quechua: Ikwayur), officially the Republic of Ecuador (Spanish: República del Ecuador, which literally translates as Republic of the Equator; Quechua: Ikwadur Ripuwlika), is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Ecuador also includes the Galápagos Islands in the Pacific, about 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) west of the mainland. The capital city is Quito, while the largest city is Guayaquil.
What is now Ecuador was home to a variety of Amerindian groups that were gradually incorporated into the Inca Empire during the 15th century. The territory was colonized by Spain during the 16th century, achieving independence in 1820 as part of Gran Colombia, from which it emerged as its own sovereign state in 1830. The legacy of both empires is reflected in Ecuador's ethnically diverse population, with most of its 16.4 million people being mestizos, followed by large minorities of European, Amerindian, and African descendants. Spanish is the official language and is spoken by a majority of the population, though 13 Amerindian languages are also recognized, including Quichua and Shuar.
The sovereign state of Ecuador is a middle-income representative democratic republic with a developing economy that is highly dependent on commodities, namely petroleum and agricultural products. It is governed as a democratic presidential republic. One of 17 megadiverse countries in the world, Ecuador hosts many endemic plants and animals, such as those of the Galápagos Islands. In recognition of its unique ecological heritage, the new constitution of 2008 is the first in the world to recognize legally enforceable Rights of Nature, or ecosystem rights.