Archive for January, 2008
Explorer 1 at 50
50 years ago today, at 10:48 pm Eastern Standard Time on January 31, 1958, the U.S.’ first satellite was launched. Some items seem to escape mention in many discussions of the event, so let’s talk a bit about the “forgotten history” of Explorer 1…
Carnivalia
The past week’s selection of “sciencey” blog carnivals, for your reading pleasure…
The scientific tourist #5 — our first Explorer
This week’s “sciencey” tourism picture is of a model of Explorer I, at the New Mexico Museum of Space History, in Alamagordo…
Heads up!
I’m coming to the conclusion that there must be a law somewhere stating the following (or similar) thought: some form of “the sky is falling” must be in play in the media at all times…
Excellent article on Neatorama
If you’re at all interested in the history of computing and / or computers, you owe it to yourself to go check out an excellent article on Neatorama titled “The Wonderful World of Early Computing”…
