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A showdown between china and india yes china and india 8028000 chinese soldiers have crossed over into india the territory is disputed but its being called the worst border tension between these 2 countries in decades now let me do this let me go over to the map over here on the wall so we can show you the area that were talking about this is the region i think weve mentioned this to you before its a region called doc right its described as one of the most beautiful places on earth its magnificent google it youll freak out its so pretty but like many beautiful things everybody seems to want to...

Good morning and welcome back to the Kennedy Space center for this Historic Mission as we prepare to launch bob and doug from pad 39a on the falcon 9 and crew dragon. Truly, an exciting time, but where was this weather wednesday afternoon . [laughter] obviously, it is a challenge to compete with the weather in florida in the summer, but we will do what is right. We are moving ahead and it sounds like we have a 5050 chance with the weather again tomorrow and we will see how it works out. It is my privilege to introduce our administrator, jim bridenstine. Jim . Jim thank you, bob, our highest pr...

Morehead building, home of the morehead planetarium, which is now the morehead planetarium and science center. John morehead iii is from a famous North Carolina family. His grandfather was governor of North Carolina. John motely morehead iii attended carolina as an undergraduate in the school of chemistry, made an accidental discovery in a Chemistry Lab as an undergraduate that ultimately led to the founding of union carbide, and he became an extremely wealthy man. In the 1930s, when he conceived of this idea, what he did as a leading Science Education contribution was he built the planetarium...

His memorial and gave about 700,000 of his fortune to form the Lick Observatory and this telescope is his monument. The construction of this observatory took quite a long time and actually started in the 1870s. Mount hamilton was an unoccupied mountain. There was no road to the top. So they convinced Santa Clara County to build a firstclass road to the top of Mount Hamilton and that started in 1876. By 1888, the Road Construction was done and they could finally Start Building this building. And then, by 1886, they finally knew how big the telescope would be. The lenses were done being made and...

Next, the story of Christa Mcauliffe, one of the crewmembers on board of the illfated Space Shuttle challenger. 15 seconds. 10. We were in the grandstands and we were located directly behind christas parents. Lift off. After the launch, everyone was yelling and very thrilled that we were seeing our colleague fly in space. The sequencing of it was such that after a proximally two minutes we are supposed to see , the separation of the solid rocket boosters, two minutes and 10 seconds. And i knew the sequencing and after about a minute and 30 seconds, we started to see some plumes that were not c...