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Space shuttle Discovery, with its seven-member crew, launched at 0359 UTC on 29 August 2009 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The shuttle will deliver supplies, equipment and a new crew member to the International Space Station.

Radio contact with India’s Chandrayaan-1 moon probe was abruptly lost at 2000 UTC on 28 August 2009. “Detailed review of the Telemetry data received from the spacecraft is in progress and health of the spacecraft subsystems is being analysed,” ISRO said in a terse statement.

Engineers for NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) project have stepped up the communication rate being received from the orbiter as an early step in the process of determining why the spacecraft spontaneously rebooted its computer on 26 August, 1242 UTC.

Bookish Americans all over the country are used to Ira Glass tricking them into crying in public. As the host of public radio’s This American Life, Glass frequently blindsides his listening audience with stories that are as heartbreaking as they are heartwarming. This is no Lifetime Television movie style sadness, though, and the voices on the radio aren’t characters: they’re real people whose stories allow you to experience a poignant blend of empathy despite the fact that they’re strangers. Perhaps that’s why the show is called This American Life.

It’s difficult to make an educated decision as a consumer about whether or not cable or satellite TV is the way to go. To the untrained eye, both look like pretty good choices–after all, anything that brings you 500 channels can’t be bad! But not all of us need 500 channels, and sometimes the channels we do get aren’t anything close to what we’d like to be watching. Thankfully, there have been a lot of changes on the part of cable providers and the satellite TV companies alike, and it’s easier to select a package that more closely fits your needs. It is those needs, in fact, that makes it so easy to figure out which is the right choice for you.

For many years, the only association with the word “nerd” was a negative one. You know, pocket protectors, goofy shirts, glasses with tape on them, and a lack of social skills. But the nerd of old has all but disappeared, not unlike the buffalo or passenger pigeon. It was one a huge part of America, and now it’s got to go. Who even knows what a pocket protector was, anyway?
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Alec Baldwin’s career has been extremely varied and taken many turns since his early days when he seemed destined to be a leading man in Hollywood for decades. Due to a number of unconvincing films, Baldwin has become a better character actor and comic performer over time. The number of awards handed over to him for 30 Rock have certainly made comedy a winning formula for Baldwin, but here are his top five film roles of all time, now on satellite TV.
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I have been a part time, Contracted, Satellite Technician with Direct TV for a little over a year now. This post is for anyone who is thinking about getting Direct TV with no nonsense, straight up facts on what you really need to know. First, the technical mumbo jumbo – There are 6 active Direct TV satellites parked in outer space that are always in the same spot in reference to the ground.