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Geek Trivia: Five for (Saturn) five

Thirty-five years ago -- May 14, 1973 -- saw the end of an era: The last Saturn V rocket ever to fly was launched from Cape Kennedy. By almost every measure, the Saturn V was the most powerful rocket ever to fly. The Soviet N-1 was a bit wider, and...

Tags: Earth, NASA, Moon, Rocket, Apollo, S-IVB, Corporate Communications, Recruitment & Selection, Benefits, Strategy, Marketing, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, Jay Garmon

Blog posts 2008-05-13

(Photos: From the moon to the Earth in HD)

A number of conspiracy theories put to bed?Some pictures of the sites of the original Moon landings with the detritus left there would surely put to rest the theories of the moon landings taking place in a warehouse in Nevada?I want to see...I want to see a picture of the...

Tags: mcardle.m@..., moon, photograph

Discussion threads 2007-11-16

Photos: From the moon to the Earth in HD

The Japanese Space Agency's Kayuga spacecraft sent back the first high-definition photos of an Earth-rise and Earth-set from the moon. by CNET News.com

Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Moon, Photograph, Japanese Space Agency, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2007-11-14

How do I... Create an animated image in Flash for my Web page?

Because Flash has evolved into a ubiquitous multifaceted tool for deploying all kinds of content to the Web, it is easy to overlook its streamlined and easy-to-use Timeline animation features. Flash's Timeline allows you to create smooth and smart animations that can be as simple or as complex as you...

Tags: Web, Planet, Moon, Stage, Palette, Animation, Layer, Web Page, Tool, Timeline, Oval, Mask, Symbol, Motion Guide, John Lee

Blog posts 2007-11-12

Photos: Scientists unlocking Saturn moon mysteries

NASA's Cassini probe that has been exploring Saturn and its moons for the past two years has found one moon with dark spots and another that's spewing. by CNET News.com

Tags: TechRepublic Inc., NASA, Moon, Photograph, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2007-10-11

Photos: Japan probe approaches moon; who's next?

A new space race is taking off with a different set of nations working toward similar goals. As many as five countries are expecting to land hardware on the moon within five years. by CNET News.com

Tags: news, moon, japan, TechRepublic Inc., Photograph, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2007-10-05

Geek Trivia: A far side collection

When so-called conspiracy theorists rattle off a patented rant about how the government faked all the Apollo moon landings on a movie soundstage at Area 51, many of us have no doubt wondered why NASA doesn't just point a big honking telescope at the moon to show the doubting Thomases...

Tags: Moon, Performance Management, Government, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Jay Garmon

Blog posts 2007-09-25

Google will give you $20 million for landing on the moon

The big news to come out of Wired magazine's NextFest is that Google has put a $20 million bounty out there for the first private team to successfully land a Spirit-style rover on the moon, a la the Ansari X Prize. If you're thinking about entering, just make sure your...

Tags: Google Inc., Moon, Team Management, Management, Jay Garmon

Blog posts 2007-09-19

To the moon, Google-style

From NextFest in Los Angeles: CNET's Molly Wood takes a look at how Google has teamed up with the X Prize Foundation, offering $30 million to the first private outfit to send a rover to the moon.

Tags: google, x prize, x-prize, space, moon, aerospace, mission, prize, rover, molly wood, TechRepublic Inc.

Videos 2007-09-14

Photos: Touting the Google Lunar X Prize

Officials from the nonprofit X Prize Foundation announce Google's sponsorship of a robotic race to the moon. The purse: $30 million. by CNET News.com

Tags: news, google, moon, race, Google Inc., TechRepublic Inc., Photograph, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2007-09-14

Geek Trivia: Holiest of holes

While there is still considerable debate about what, exactly, killed off the dinosaurs, one of the most compelling theories is that Mexico did it. Or, rather, that 65 million years ago, a 10-kilometer-wide meteor slammed into the landmass that would later become part of contemporary Mexico -- thereby throwing a...

Tags: Moon, Crater, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Jay Garmon

Blog posts 2007-09-11

Images: Orion spacecraft prepares for moon landing

The Orion spacecraft, replacement for the space shuttle and the vehicle that will take astronauts back to the moon, will fly in 2008.

Tags: ORION, spacecraft, shuttle, moon

Image galleries 2007-08-03

Photos: Test-driving lunar rovers

With plans to put autonomous rovers on the moon in 2020, NASA simulates lunar conditions and tests out its technology on a remote Arctic crater.

Tags: crater, moon, NASA, photograph

Image galleries 2007-07-20

Geek Trivia: Air (and space) mail

What stamp-collecting item did the crew of Apollo 11 secretly produce? Editor's note: Because the Trivia Geek couldn't be bothered to account for the U.S. Memorial Day holiday, we've been forced to dig into our archives to present this Classic Geek, which originally ran on June 7, 2005. Look...

Tags: Jay Garmon, Missile Mail, U.S. Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield, missile, Geek Trivia Newsletter, Oxygen, TechRepublic Inc., Moon, Environment, Editor, U.S. Postal Service

Technical articles 2007-05-29

Photos: Explosive views from Jupiter

Active volcanos, monster storms and captured debris of Jupiter and its moons were captured by the New Horizons spacecraft.

Tags: Jupiter, debris, moon, spacecraft, photograph

Image galleries 2007-05-01

Geek Trivia: Stunt double to the stars

What celestial object in our solar system bears a strange resemblance to Star Wars' Death Star? What's more than 100 kilometers across; home to more than 1 million military officers, crew, and support personnel; berths more than 7,000 attack craft; and has been the recipient of such...

Tags: Jay Garmon, Death Star, Star Wars, Geek Trivia Newsletter, TechRepublic Inc., Moon, Tax, Mimas, Taxes, Financial Planning, Finance

Technical articles 2007-04-24

Geek Trivia: The map in the moon

Quibble?Hey Jay,One thing you neglected to mention was that da Vinci was also wrong about the oceans reflecting light to the moon. While you didn't explicitly state that this was the case, you didn't tell us that he was wrong either. I mistakenly believed that the oceans also reflected the...

Tags: joethejet, moon, Geek Trivia

Discussion threads 2007-03-21

Geek Trivia: The map in the moon

Which ancient drawings are the oldest known maps of the moon? These days, Leonardo da Vinci gets a great deal of historically inaccurate publicity for his fictional involvement in a secret quasi-religious, art-encoding, multi-millennial conspiracy. However, before Dan Brown rewrote the history of the original Renaissance...

Tags: Jay Garmon, Leonardo Da Vinci, moon, Geek Trivia Newsletter, Vinci, Knowth, Strategy, Management

Technical articles 2007-03-20

Images: Lakes on Titan, water on Mars?

New images from NASA's planetary explorers show evidence of gigantic lakes on Saturn's moon, Titan, and water erosion on Mars. Plus, updates on the Mars rovers.

Tags: lake, erosion, titan, moon, NASA, image

Image galleries 2007-03-14

Photos: Saturn taken from the top

The Cassini probe, which has been orbiting Saturn for the past year and a half, continues to amaze with a new set of photos of the ringed planet and its moons.

Tags: moon, photograph, Saturn

Image galleries 2007-03-02