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Into The Universe with Stephen Hawking

On the Discovery Channel…
Into The Universe with Stephen Hawking is an epic new kind of cosmology series, a Planet Earth of the heavens. It takes the world’s most famous scientific mind and sets it free, powered by the limitless possibilities of computer animation.
Hawking gives us the ultimate guide to the universe, a ripping yarn based on real science, spanning the whole of space and time; from the nature of the universe itself, to the chances of alien life, and the real possibility of time travel.
There are some truly mind-blowing video clips of the show at
dsc.discovery.com/tv/
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NASA TV Vintage Video

This video was aired when NASA Television was honored with a Primetime Emmy Award by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
The 2009 Philo T. Farnsworth Award recognizes the agency for engineering excellence and commemorates the 40th anniversary of the technological innovations that made possible the first live TV broadcast from the moon by the Apollo 11 crew on July 20, 1969.
(Source YouTube:) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYyENdNiAPM

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Tom Snyder 1936 – 2007

Tom Snyder, the late night host of NBC’s Tomorrow Show from 1973 to 1981, died Sunday from complications of leukemia. He was 71. I remember his unusual talk show host style, which seemed at times to be more of an interrogation than an interview. And he had some memorable guests too. John Lennon, Steven Spielberg, Kiss, Bono, Johnny Lydon, Howard Cosell, and an unusual on location prison interview with Charles Manson.

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