FULL HUNTER'S MOON OCTOBER 13, 2019

The Next Full Moon is the Hunter's Moon, Travel Moon, Dying Grass Moon, Sanguine Moon, Blood Moon.

The next full Moon will be on Sunday, October 13, 2019, appearing "opposite" the Sun (in Earth-based longitude) at 5:17 PM EDT. The Moon will appear full for about three days centered on this time, from Saturday morning to Tuesday morning.

According to the Farmer's Almanac, with the leaves falling and the deer fattened, it is time to hunt. Since the harvesters have reaped the fields, hunters can easily see the animals that have come out to glean. The earliest use of the term "Hunter's Moon" cited in the Oxford English Dictionary is from 1710.

Sunday * 13 October 2019 * 5:07:52 pm (EDT)

Moon sign: Aries 20° 13'

In other time zones:
WELLINGTON = Monday * 14 October 2019 * 10:07:52 am (NZDT)
SYDNEY = Monday * 14 October 2019 * 8:07:52 am (AEDT)
TOKYO = Monday * 14 October 2019 * 6:07:52 am (JST)
BEIJING = Monday * 14 October 2019 * 5:07:52 am (CST)
BANGKOK = Monday * 14 October 2019 * 4:07:52 am (ICT)
DELHI = Monday * 14 October 2019 * 2:37:52 am (IST)
DUBAI = Monday * 14 October 2019 * 1:07:52 am (GST)
MOSCOW = Monday * 14 October 2019 * 12:07:52 am (MSK)
BERLIN = Sunday * 13 October 2019 * 11:07:52 pm (CEST)
LAGOS = Sunday * 13 October 2019 * 10:07:52 pm (WAT)
LONDON = Sunday * 13 October 2019 * 10:07:52 pm (BST)
RIO = Sunday * 13 October 2019 * 6:07:52 pm (BRT)
SANTIAGO = Sunday * 13 October 2019 * 6:07:52 pm (CLST)
NEW YORK = Sunday * 13 October 2019 * 5:07:52 pm (EDT)
MEXICO CITY = Sunday * 13 October 2019 * 4:07:52 pm (CDT)
CALGARY = Sunday * 13 October 2019 * 3:07:52 pm (MDT)
LOS ANGELES = Sunday * 13 October 2019 * 2:07:52 pm (PDT)
ANCHORAGE = Sunday * 13 October 2019 * 1:07:52 pm (AKDT)
HONOLULU = Sunday * 13 October 2019 * 11:07:52 am (HAST)

8 TOP COOL RETRO INVENTIONS OF THE 1960S

Valium invented 1963

Diazepam was first made by Leo Sternbach and commercialized by Hoffmann-La Roche. It has been one of the most frequently prescribed medications in the world since its launch in 1963.

In the United States, it was the highest selling medication between 1968 and 1982, selling more than two billion tablets in 1978 alone.

The LASER 1960:

The term "laser" originated as an acronym for "light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation". The first laser was built in 1960 by Theodore H. Maiman at Hughes Research Laboratories, based on theoretical work by Charles Hard Townes and Arthur Leonard Schawlow.
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May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard Before Mercury Launch

First US Space Launch: 

Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr., in his silver pressure suit with the helmet visor closed, prepares for his Mercury Redstone 3 launch on May 5, 1961. Shepard's Freedom 7 Mercury capsule lifted off at 9:34 a.m. from Launch Complex 5 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, and flew a suborbital trajectory lasting 15 minutes and 22 seconds. He became the first American to fly into space.

The Audio Cassette Invented 1962

In 1962, Philips invented the Compact Cassette medium for audio storage, introducing it in Europe on 30 August 1963 at the Berlin Radio Show, and in the United States (under the Norelco brand) in November 1964, with the trademark name Compact Cassette. The team at Philips was led by Lou Ottens in Hasselt, Belgium.

Spacewar, the first computer video game invented 1962.

Steve Russell - Inventing of Spacewar. It was in 1962 when a young computer programmer from MIT named Steve Russell, fueled with inspiration from the writings of E. E. "Doc" Smith, led the team that created the first popular computer game. Spacewar, the first computer video game invented.

Kevlar invented 1965

Stephanie L. Kwolek. In a polymer research lab at DuPont, Kwolek discovered the super fiber known as Kevlar. In 1965 Stephanie Kwolek created the first of a family of synthetic fibers of exceptional strength and stiffness. Kevlar invented by Stephanie Louise Kwolek.

First Computer Mouse Invented1968

Douglas Engelbart, (born January 30, 1925, Portland, Oregon, U.S.—died July 2, 2013, Atherton, California), American inventor whose work beginning in the 1950s led to his patent for the computer mouse, the development of the basic graphical user interface (GUI), and groupware.

ARPANET Invented 1969

The precursor to the Internet was jumpstarted in the early days of computing history, in 1969 with the U.S. Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET). ARPA-funded researchers developed many of the protocols used for Internet communication today.

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HIDDEN FIGURES: THE WOMEN BEHIND NASA 1953

The human computers group photo in 1953. (Credit: NASA/JPL/Caltech)

They were known as “human computers” long before desktop, laptops and multi-function calculators. Comprising an elite team of mathematicians, engineers and scientists, these women were tasked with turning numbers into meaningful data at what would later become NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and Langley Research Center. Their calculations would chart the course of many ground-breaking missions, carrying U.S. astronauts to the moon and beyond.

Photo above: Macie Roberts’ computing group circa 1955 (far right). Barbara Paulson is on the telephone (standing, back left). Helen Ling is at the second desk in the left row. (Credit: JPL)

Barbara “Barby” Canright was the first and joined California’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 1939. As the first female “human computer,” her job was to calculate anything from how many rockets were needed to make a plane airborne to what kind of rocket propellants were needed to propel a spacecraft.

Mary Jackson

These calculations were done by hand, with pencil and graph paper, often taking more than a week to complete and filling up six to eight notebooks with data and formulas.

It was the careful and precise hand-made calculations of these women that sent Voyager to explore the solar system, wrote the C and C++ programs that launched the first Mars rover and helped the U.S. put a man on the moon. Though rarely seen in the famous photos of NASA’s mission control, these early human computers contributed immeasurably to the success of the United States’ space program. Read More

THE TRUE STORY BEHIND THE FILM HIDDEN FIGURES

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The True Story of "Hidden Figures," the Forgotten Women Who Helped Win the Space Race

A new book and movie document the accomplishments of NASA’s black “human computers” whose work was at the heart of the country’s greatest battles.

Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

The movie Hidden Figures was so good...I watched it twice. These women were really kept in the background and it is so great to see them get their proper place in history.

Hidden Figures (DVD+DHD)

THE DON DRAPER OF THE SPACE PROGRAM: ALAN B SHEPARD JR

Alan B Shepard Jr

"SOLVE YOUR LITTLE PROBLEM AND LET'S LIGHT THIS CANDLE"

Alan Shepard was the rock star of the space program..he avoided the press, kept his distance from friends and foes alike..he was handsome, smart, smoked, drank, stayed out late..he was the baddest dude in NASA history.. Shepard was media savvy before anyone knew what "spin" meant. 

Shepard was complicated and so cool. He was a STAR and he knew it...He is my favorite of all the astronauts. He was no boy scout...

He was a very intense guy who just wanted to get the job done and liked to move forward and not look back, and I think that reflection of that intensity of his personality is nicely summed in those few words.

“He wasn’t the most outgoing guy with the press and I felt like there had to be more to his story than what I had read,” Thompson told Universe Today. “There were a lot of aspects to his personality that were complicated and compelling and contradictory.

He was highly competitive, but he was also a softy underneath at times. He was accused over the years of being a bit of a womanizer, and yet he was married to the same woman for 40-plus years and I think they were very devoted to each other. So there were a lot of complex aspects to his personality that were fun to explore.” Read more

On May 5, 1961, Shepard sat in a capsule at the tip of a Redstone rocket and was launched briefly into suborbital flight, making him the first American in space. Massive parades, a meeting with President John F. Kennedy and a newfound national enthusiasm for space travel

Alan Bartlett Shepard, Jr. was an American naval aviator, test pilot, flag officer, NASA astronaut, and businessman, who in 1961 became the second person, and the first American, to travel into space.

Born: November 18, 1923, Derry, NH

Died: July 21, 1998, Pebble Beach, CA

Space missions: Mercury-Redstone 3, Apollo 14

Alan Shepard, first American in space and fifth man on the moon