* Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica ( LIMA ; NASA web pages )

General relativity also predicts the existence of gravitational waves, which have since been observed indirectly ; a direct measurement is the aim of projects such as LIGO and NASA / ESA Laser Interferometer Space Antenna and various pulsar timing arrays.

NASA picture of Jarvis Island ; note the submerged reef beyond the eastern end.

Freas was commissioned to paint the Skylab I insignia design and posters promoting the space program ( used by NASA and now hanging in the Smithsonian Institution ); pinup girls on bombers while in the United States Army Air Forces ; comic book covers ; the covers of the GURPS worldbooks Lensman and Planet Krishna ; and many others, such as more than 500 saints ' portraits for the Franciscans executed simultaneously with his portraits of Alfred E. Neuman (" What?

) From its last refit to its destruction, Columbia bore markings identical to those of its operational sister orbiters — the NASA " meatball " logo on the left wing and the American flag afore the orbiter's name on the right ; only Columbia's distinctive wing " chines " remained.

Food was also important ; early Apollo crews complained about its quality, and a NASA volunteer found living on the Apollo food for four days on Earth to be intolerable ; its taste and composition, in the form of cubes and squeeze tubes, were unpleasant.

In a joking nod to the sinking of his Mercury craft Grissom named the first Gemini spacecraft Molly Brown after the popular Broadway show The Unsinkable Molly Brown ; NASA publicity officials were unhappy with this name.

According to the Vision for Space Exploration, the next manned NASA program was to be Project Constellation with its Ares I and Ares V launch vehicles and the Orion Spacecraft ; however, the Constellation program was never fully funded, and in early 2010 the Obama administration asked Congress to instead endorse a plan with heavy reliance on the private sector for delivering cargo and crew to LEO.

However, according to an article by former Space Shuttle program Director Wayne Hale on his official NASA blog, the space shuttle program, in preparation for the 2010 shutdown, has already terminated many specialty parts and materials contracts, many with small businesses whose only customer may have been the shuttle program and who closed shop and retired upon receiving their termination letters ; as a result, it would be difficult and expensive at this point to extend the shuttle program, and there would be a lag of at least a year ( without flights ) before exhausted exotic parts and supplies could be replaced.

NASA launched an Echo satellite in 1960 ; the aluminized PET film balloon served as a passive reflector for radio communications.

NASA had taken all the original tapes and erased them for use on subsequent missions ; however, the Apollo 11 Tape Search and Restoration Team formed in 2003 tracked down the highest quality footage among the converted recordings of the first broadcast, pieced together the best footage, then contracted a specialist film restoration company to enhance the degraded black-and-white film and convert it into digital format for archival records.

Today, Cortland county is noted for the production of CNC milling machines ; hospitality supplies ; medical instruments and components ; textiles ; electrical components ; plastic consumer goods ; components for NASA and a variety of other goods and services.

During Johnson's administration, NASA conducted the Gemini manned space program and the Apollo program, including Apollo 7 ; and the first human spaceflight to the Moon, Apollo 8, in December 1968.

When the decision to de-orbit Mir was made, Tito managed to switch his trip to the International Space Station ( ISS ) through a deal between MirCorp and U. S .- based Space Adventures, Ltd., despite strong opposition from senior figures at NASA ; from the beginning of the ISS expeditions, NASA stated it wasn't interested in space guests.

It is thought that some of the high cost of access to space is due to governmental inefficiencies ; and certainly the costs of the governmental paperwork surrounding NASA is legendary.

His accomplishments from 1989 to 1992 included testing the F / A-18 and A-7 aircraft ; performing research work with NASA on pitch control margin simulation and flight ; completing the first military flight of F / A-18 enhanced performance engines ; piloting the first flight test of the National Aerospace Plane external burning hydrogen propulsion engine ; developing a new handling qualities rating scale for high angle-of-attack test ; and participating in the F / A-18 out-of-control recovery test program.

I believe there are seventeen short plays by Tom now housed in the Houghton Library at Harvard ; ;

The total operation was a construction project comparable in magnitude with the Panama Canal, but in 1917 time was in short supply ; ;

As for this rider, I never saw him before or afterwards and never saw him dismounted, so whether he stood tall or short in his shoes, I can't say ; ;

have the short action ; ;

single-shot Remington 514C ( around $20 ), which comes with a 21-inch barrel and a short -- 12-1/2-inch -- stock ; ;

Swadesh in short was trying to develop a basic list that was universal ; ;

He cannot leave the farm to take work in another locality on short notice ; ;

or Rosburg, whose accurate short game and supersensitive putter can overcome so many of Augusta's treacheries ; ;

In short, the book, based largely on lectures delivered at Harvard University, is both reliable and readable ; ;

That was one more reason she didn't look forward to Cathy's visit, short or long ; ;

As a young man, Nobel studied with chemist Nikolai Zinin ; then, in 1850, went to Paris to further the work ; and, at 18, he went to the United States for four years to study chemistry, collaborating for a short period under inventor John Ericsson, who designed the American Civil War ironclad USS Monitor.

His later novels included fixups such as The Beast ( aka Moonbeast ) ( 1963 ), Rogue Ship ( 1965 ), Quest for the Future ( 1970 ) and Supermind ( 1977 ); expanded short stories ( The Darkness on Diamondia ( 1972 ), Future Glitter ( aka Tyranopolis ) ( 1973 ); original novels such as Children of Tomorrow ( 1970 ), The Battle of Forever ( 1971 ) and The Anarchistic Colossus ( 1977 ); plus sequels to his classic works, many of which were promised, but only one of which appeared, Null-A Three ( 1984 ; originally published in French ).

Fear is defined as short lived, present focused, geared towards a specific threat, and facilitating escape from threat ; while anxiety is defined as long acting, future focused, broadly focused towards a diffuse threat, and promoting caution while approaching a potential threat.

Some consider this more of a short story collection ; Milne didn't like it and considered The Day's Play as his first book.

In those days poems often told a story in verse and those boys had some corkers to tell ; ;

The story was shaping up nicely in his mind: the young pioneer, as of old, altruistically braving the unknown ; ;

and, `` I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world '', burst out Jo some five hundred pages later in that popular story of the March family, which had first appeared when Henrietta was eight ; ;

Jean-Paul Senesac, whose story appeared here two issues ago ; ;

Looking back on this period ( in 1926 ) Milne observed that when he told his agent that he was going to write a detective story, he was told that what the country wanted from a " Punch humorist " was a humorous story ; when two years later he said he was writing nursery rhymes, his agent and publisher were convinced he should write another detective story ; and after another two years he was being told that writing a detective story would be in the worst of taste given the demand for children's books.

In another version of this story, Hera, Hephaestus ' mother, had cast him off Olympus ; deeming him ugly and deformed.

One of the entrances to the Cleeves Cove cave system ; the ' Elf Hame ' of the Bessie Dunlop story.

Thus we have the story of his riding across a stick ( horse made of stick ) with his children and upon being discovered by a friend desiring that he not mention till he himself were the father of children ; and because of the affection of his son Archidamus ' for Cleonymus, he saved Sphodrias, Cleonymus ' father, from execution for his incursion into the Piraeus, and dishonorable retreat, in 378 BC.

It is claimed that he was killed by a tortoise that fell out of the sky when dropped by an eagle ; however, this story is very likely apocryphal.

Kemmerich is shot in the leg early in the story ; his injured leg had to be amputated, and he dies shortly after.

Alan Cameron states: " It is only in modern times that people have taken the Atlantis story seriously ; no one did so in antiquity ".

He declares at the start: " No matter what sort he is, everyone who has to his credit what are or really seem great achievements, if he cares for truth and goodness, ought to write the story of his own life in his own hand ; but no one should venture on such a splendid undertaking before he is over forty.

The line between myth and tall tale is distinguished primarily by age ; many myths exaggerate the exploits of their heroes, but in tall tales the exaggeration looms large, to the extent of becoming the whole of the story.