* 1990 – STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery.

The Boonshoft Museum of Discovery is a local children's museum of science with numerous exhibits, one of which includes an indoor zoo with nearly 100 different animals.

Through determination and cunning, David is able to outwit the supercomputer and regain control of the spaceship Discovery.

My First Britannica is aimed at children ages six to twelve, and the Britannica Discovery Library is for children aged three to six ( issued 1974 to 1991 ).

* 1961 – Discovery of the chemical elements: Element 103, Lawrencium, is first synthesized at the University of California.

* 1997 – Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope.

Gerald Lawrence Schroeder is an Orthodox Jewish physicist, author, lecturer and teacher at College of Jewish Studies Aish HaTorah's Discovery Seminar, Essentials and Fellowships programs and Executive Learning Center, who focuses on what he perceives to be an inherent relationship between science and spirituality.

* Leo Colovini is best known for his board games Cartagena and Carcassonne: The Discovery.

* The Discovery of Heaven, a 1992 novel by Harry Mulisch, claims heaven is located " at the end of the Big Bang in negative space ".

The primary antagonist in 2001: A Space Odyssey, HAL ( Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer ) is an artificial intelligence that controls the systems of the Discovery One spacecraft and interacts with the ship's astronaut crew.

In addition to maintaining the Discovery One spacecraft systems during the interplanetary mission to Jupiter, HAL is capable of speech, speech recognition, facial recognition, natural language processing, lip reading, art appreciation, interpreting and reproducing emotional behaviours, reasoning, and playing chess.

California, on the other hand, operates under the Civil Discovery Act of 1986 ( a revision of an older 1957 act ), which is codified in the California Code of Civil Procedure.

Intelligent design ( ID ) is a form of creationism promulgated by the Discovery Institute.

Port Rhoades in Discovery Bay is responsible for transporting bauxite dried at the adjacent Kaiser plant.

The George and Jobling aircraft control column is in the collection of the Discovery Museum in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.

Discovery of the reasons for the variation and possible semantic differences is a topic of ongoing debate in Mycenaean studies.

The Middle Ages ( adjectival forms: medieval, mediaeval, and mediæval ) is the period of European history encompassing the 5th to the 15th centuries, normally marked from the collapse of the Western Roman Empire ( the end of Classical Antiquity ) until the beginning of the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery, the periods which ushered in the Modern Era.

Mars Direct was featured on a Discovery Channel programs Mars: The Next Frontier in which issues were discussed surrounding NASA funding of the project, and on Mars Underground, where the plan is discussed more in-depth.

Knowledge Discovery Metamodel is designed as the OMG's foundation for software modernization and software assurance.

" He writes, " Discovery and invention have made it possible for the Government, by means far more effective than stretching upon the rack, to obtain disclosure in court of what is whispered in the closet.

" Daily Telegraph columnist Jasper Rees, likening the changes in explorers ' reputations to climatic variations, suggests that " in the current Antarctic weather report, Scott is enjoying his first spell in the sun for twenty-five years ". The New York Times Book Review was more critical, pointing out Crane's support for Scott's discredited claims regarding the circumstances of the freeing of the Discovery from the pack ice, and concluded " For all the many attractions of his book, David Crane offers no answers that convincingly exonerate Scott from a significant share of responsibility for his own demise.

Space Shuttle Discovery ( Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-103 ) is one of the retired orbiters of the Space Shuttle program of NASA, the space agency of the United States, and was operational from its maiden flight, STS-41-D on August 30, 1984, until its final landing during STS-133 on March 9, 2011.

* RRS Discovery, a Royal Geographical Society research vessel which, under the command of Captain Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton, was the main ship of the 1901 – 1904 " Discovery Expedition " to Antarctica which is still preserved as a museum in Dundee, Scotland.

Diogo Cão (; in old Portuguese: Cam ) was a Portuguese explorer and one of the most notable navigators of the Age of Discovery, who made two voyages sailing along the west coast of Africa to Namibia in the 1480s.

Other notable pre-20th century examples include Giacomo Casanova's 1788 Icosaméron, a 5-volume, 1, 800-page story of a brother and sister who fall into the Earth and discover the subterranean utopia of the Mégamicres, a race of multicolored, hermaphroditic dwarfs ; Symzonia: A Voyage of Discovery by a " Captain Adam Seaborn " ( 1820 ) which reflected the ideas of John Cleves Symmes, Jr .; Edgar Allan Poe's 1838 novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket ; Jules Verne's 1864 novel A Journey to the Center of the Earth, which described a prehistoric subterranean world ; and George Sand's 1884 novel Laura, Voyage dans le Cristal where unseen and giant crystals could be found in the interior of the Earth.

The timing was not ideal though, as four-wheel drive had already become synonymous with large MPVs such as the Land Rover Discovery, and the bottom dropped out of the four-wheel drive saloon market, with the notable exception of Subaru.

This is reflected in one of the most notable satires of the affair, Alexander Pope and William Pulteney's anonymous satirical ballad The Discovery ; or, The Squire Turn'd Ferret.

In addition to the many permanent exhibits, Pacific Science Center has offered a constant rotation of traveling exhibits, including notable exhibits such as " China: 7, 000 Years of Discovery ", " Titanic: the Artifacts Exhibit ", " Discovering the Dead Sea Scrolls ", " Harry Potter The Exhibition ", " Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination ", " Design Zone ", and currently " Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs ", which will remain at the Science Center until January 6, 2013.

Each year VSA sponsors many notable programs such as the " International Young Soloists Program ," " Playwright Discovery " program, Call for Children's art, internships across the nation for students with disabilities.

Webcor has built or is building many notable projects throughout California and has been featured on the Discovery Channel's Extreme Engineering series for the California Academy of Sciences replacement project in Golden Gate Park.

He was not the sort of sailor Hudson wanted his backers to see on board and he had Greene wait at Gravesend, where the Discovery picked him up.

Hudson pointed the Discovery down the east coast of the newly discovered sea ( now called Hudson Bay ), confident he was on his way to the warm waters of the Pacific.

In 1988, Monitor Reports was supplanted by a nightly half-hour news show, World Monitor, which was broadcast by the Discovery Channel.

The Discovery of Dawn was published in 2007, and That Mad Ache was published in 2009, bound together with Hofstadter's essay Translator, Trader: An Essay on the Pleasantly Pervasive Paradoxes of Translation.

This division — as much cultural as geographical — was used until the Late Middle Ages, when it was challenged by the Age of Discovery.

Charles Sanders Peirce was a fallibilist and the most developed form of fallibilism can be traced to Karl Popper ( 1902 – 1994 ) whose first book Logik Der Forschung ( The Logic of Scientific Discovery ), 1934 introduced a " conjectural turn " into the philosophy of science and epistemology at large.

Robinson successfully removed the loose material while Discovery was docked to the International Space Station.

On June 5, 2005, Lucas was named among the 100 " Greatest Americans " by the Discovery Channel.

When the first Nootka Convention ended the crisis in 1790, Vancouver was given command of Discovery to take possession of Nootka Sound and to survey the coasts.

This spurred exploration, and a new sea route around Africa was found, triggering the Age of Discovery.

Beyond Tough, a 2002 documentary series, aired on Discovery Channel about the world's most dangerous and intense professions, such as alligator wrestlers and Indy 500 pit crews, was hosted by Marrow.

The Lewis and Clark Expedition, also known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition ( 1804 – 1806 ), was the first transcontinental expedition to the Pacific coast undertaken by the United States.

In 1993, the makers of Discovery Communications's documentary Loch Ness Discovered analysed the uncropped image and found a white object was visible in every version of the photo, implying it was on the negative.

A well-known critic of logical positivism was Karl Popper, who published the book Logik der Forschung in 1934 ( translated by himself as The Logic of Scientific Discovery, published 1959 ).

Macau was a barren fishing village with a population of about 400 before the Portuguese arrived in the 16th century, during the Age of Discovery.

In the Soviet Union, Vladislav Ivanov filed ( in 1960 ) a document with the USSR State Committee for Inventions and Discovery at Leningrad for a Magnetic Resonance Imaging device, although this was not approved until the 1970s.

The first such program was begun in 2001 the Centre for Computational Drug Discovery at the University of Oxford in cooperation with the National Foundation for Cancer Research.

Discovery Channel Magazine stated that vanishing spaceships, faster-than-light travel and dematerialised transport were only dreams at the time the original series was made, but physicist Michio Kaku believes all these things are possible.

Robert Falcon Scott, CVO ( 6 June 1868 – 29 March 1912 ) was a Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery Expedition, 1901 – 04, and the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition, 1910 – 13.