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Friday, February 27, 2026
She helped to bring astronauts home safely
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@Mark Ollig I recently read the Nov. 14, 2018, NASA Johnson Space Center oral history interview of Frances Marian “Poppy” Northcutt by Jenni...
Thursday, February 19, 2026
Astroflies: First living beings to reach space
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@Mark Ollig In August 1945, German-made V-2 rockets and their parts were brought to the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The V-2, or...
Thursday, February 12, 2026
How frequency modulation conquered static
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@Mark Ollig In the 1920s, radio evolved from small experiments into a powerful new medium for sharing information and entertainment wireles...
Thursday, February 5, 2026
Farmers used barbed wire fences as phone lines
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@Mark Ollig During the 1880s and 1890s, most rural areas in Minnesota lacked commercial telephone service. Bell, the national organization n...
Friday, January 30, 2026
NASA’s Orion laser test from the moon
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@Mark Ollig The Orion Artemis II Optical Communications System (O2O) is an infrared laser payload for NASA’s Artemis II Orion spacecraft. Th...
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