Moon Colony Artwork From NASA, 1971.

Ran around yellowstone this last week

156 years ago today in Parma the conductor Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) was born. One of the most famous conductors.

Richard Wagner: Die Walküre - Ride of the Valkyries

Arturo Toscanini: Conductor

NBC Symphony Orchestra

Don Davis, 1975.

(MoMA)

Square-Mile Street Network Visualization - geoffboeing.com

Photo: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

7 February 2024

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Bruce McCandless II (born Byron Willis McCandless; June 8, 1937 – December 21, 2017) was an American Navy officer and aviator, electrical engineer, and NASA astronaut.

On 7 February 1984, during the first of his two Space Shuttle missions, he completed the first untethered spacewalk by using the Manned Maneuvering Unit.

" Nasa's Deep Space Mission " //© Astro Voyagers

Frank Lloyd Wright beside a model of the new Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, October 25, 1953. This became the only Wright building in the city.

Photo: CF for the AP via the Denver Post

“I would like to humanize the space age by giving a perspective from a non-astronaut, because I think the students will look at that and say, ‘This is an ordinary person. This ordinary person is contributing to history.’”

—Christa McAuliffe (September 2, 1948–January 28, 1986)