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To the Moon: Rocketdyne, Keeper of the Flame

To the Moon: Rocketdyne, Keeper of the FlameIndeed amazing technological feats, butcan we also get a write-up of the phase that *didn't* happen, i.e. the actual landing on the moon?RE: To the Moon: Rocketdyne, Keeper of the Flamedog training dog trainingdog trainingdog trainingdog trainingdog trainingdog...

Tags: Workforce management, training and certification, oil painting, painting, training

Discussion threads 2009-07-16

DSTN Station at Perth, Australia (IBM and UNIVAC in the Apollo Program)

DSTN Station at Perth, Australia IBM and UNIVAC in the Apollo ProgramRadio Telescope... is at Parkes not Perth

Tags: Perth, Univac, Apollo, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-07-14

IBM and UNIVAC in the Apollo Program

IBM and UNIVAC were the key system integrators for the Apollo program. IBM provided broad computer support on a number of fronts including guidance systems on the Saturn V vehicle itself, whereas UNIVAC's computers were critical to the Deep Space Tracking Network DSTN required for upstream and downstream telemetry to...

Tags: IBM Corp., Productivity, IBM. UNIVAC, NASA, Apollo, Jason Perlow

Image galleries 2009-07-13

To the Moon: How we built the technologies

To the Moon: How we built the technologiesWestinghouseWestinghouse over came a ton of problems to build a video camera that met the power and weight restrictions NASA placed on them.At the time, most inviloved with the program pretty much thought of the camera as a nicity but wasn't all that...

Tags: Westinghouse

Discussion threads 2009-07-06

Neil Armstrong remembers man behind Apollo 11

Neil Armstrong remembers man behind Apollo 11 by John Dodge

Tags: Neil Armstrong, SmartPlanet, apollo, armstrong, John Dodge

Image galleries 2009-06-16

(Photos: A soft landing at Rocket Park)

(Photos: A soft landing at Rocket Park)Apollo 17Hate to nitpick, but you guys should be better than this: "the penultimate moon mission, Apollo 16."Cernan, Evans, and Schmitt might beg to differ:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_17(Yes, I'm a bit of a space-nut, but we all need to have our hobbies. And yes, while I'm...

Tags: Apollo, photograph

Discussion threads 2008-06-20

Pownce using AIR (and I've got invites)

Kevin Rose unveiled a new project today, Pownce. Pownce looks like it's going to combine Twitter with the ability to send events, files, and links to your friends. Pownce allows you to send it to a specific person or share with everyone. Based on Leah's blog it looks like it's...

Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Flex, Apollo

Blog posts 2007-06-27

Do new verticals need a killer desktop application?

I heard an interesting statement today about the role of desktop applications in new mediums and taking technologies to the next level. Think about email and the move to more rich experiences. Pine was great and the first thing I used to check email. But it wasn't something that most...

Tags: WPF, Rich Internet Applications, Apollo

Blog posts 2007-06-19

Adobe announces hardware accelerated video in Flash, Apollo's new name, and two new betas

Adobe announces hardware accelerated video in Flash, Apollo's new name, and two new betasRE: GPU accelerationInteresting! I'll have to ping Tinic to find out more. I hadn't ever heard that before, so thanks for the heads up!GPU accelerationRyan - I'm sure that earlier versions of Flash on the Mac have...

Tags: video, Adobe Systems Inc., Apollo, acceleration, GPU, hardware

Discussion threads 2007-06-11

Confusion, fear and doubt around Rich Internet Applications

There is a post up over on Read/Write Web which aims to paint a picture of Rich Internet Applications and poses the question, RIA: What is it good for? Unfortunately I think they miss the mark a bit with both the definition of RIAs and the analysis behind the technologies....

Tags: WPF, Silverlight, Rich Media, Flash, Apollo, Ajax

Blog posts 2007-06-01

What Google Gears means for Rich Internet Applications and Apollo

What Google Gears means for Rich Internet Applications and ApolloRyan, you need to start investigating and thinking about the sync problemThere is a huge body of existing research out there, but, in the end, many of the solutions are application / file type dependent.http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/Jolt is goodWhen Acrobat 2.1 enabled mere...

Tags: Desktops, Google Gears, Apollo, rich Internet application, Google Inc., Adobe AIR, BEA Jolt

Discussion threads 2007-05-31

What Google Gears means for Rich Internet Applications and Apollo

Some big news today that Google is announcing an open source project called "Google Gears" which is an open source collaboration between Google, Adobe, Mozilla, and Opera that enables offline web applications in the browser. It seems very similar to the announcement that Mozilla made about the offline features in...

Tags: Adobe, Apollo, Google

Blog posts 2007-05-30

Bidding for the first invite to a Rich Internet Application on eBay

This is kind of cool so I couldn't pass up the chance to mention it. The San Dimas project, which is the Apollo demo that nearly everyone has seen and I got a first crack at here is close to going public beta. In honor of that, the people on...

Tags: Apollo, eBay

Blog posts 2007-05-30

To browser or not? It doesn't really matter

Rich Internet Applications have gotten a lot of great attention recently. The technologies and acronyms are blending together in a seemingly endless soup of technobabble. Part of that comes with any new technology and in the hyper-attentive world of the web people are quick to make judgments and even quicker...

Tags: Apollo, Experience, Flash, Flex, Silverlight

Blog posts 2007-05-28

Changing the user expectation by freeing applications from the browser

Disclosure: Last week I announced that I’m working for Adobe. While I haven’t officially started, consider me an Adobe employee for all intents and purposes. I have the disclosure statement at the bottom of the page, but I’ll probably run this for a while just to make sure there isn’t...

Tags: Silverlight, Flash, Apollo, Ajax

Blog posts 2007-05-21

Shantanu Narayen, Chief Operating Officer at Adobe on Apollo, Silverlight, and CS3

Knowledge@Wharton just published a great interview with Shantanu Narayen, the Chief Operating Officer at Adobe. In the interview he touches on almost all aspects of Adobe's product line including Creative Suite 3, Flash, Flex, and Apollo. He also talks about some of the corporate culture at Adobe and how it...

Tags: Flex, Flash, Apollo, Adobe, Silverlight

Blog posts 2007-05-16

Is Tweetr the first mainstream Apollo application?

Tweetr, the Twitter client from John Ballinger that is built on Apollo hit a unique and fun milestone today; it officially got the same status as Twitterific. For those that dont use Twitter, Ill back up. When you update Twitter, it shows whether you updated from the web or from...

Tags: Apollo, Rich Internet Applications

Blog posts 2007-05-15

Getting the idea of Apollo across

Richard MacManus over at Read/WriteWeb has a good overview of Apollo that may help some people who still dont quite get the technology. I think of the problems you have when you release a product like Apollo so early is that its difficult to get the message across. Richard breaks...

Tags: Apollo, Adobe, Rich Internet Applications

Blog posts 2007-05-14

Yahoo goes Rich Internet Application for its browser messenger

Yahoo goes Rich Internet Application for its browser messengerAnother ClientHey Ryan,Great insight as always. I use Meebo all the time, as Adobe IT blocks most IM protocols. Also, for whatever reason, most of my friends seem to use AIM, and most of my co-workers use YIM. Having...

Tags: Desktops, Meebo, desktop, Apollo, Yahoo goes Rich Internet Application, Yahoo Goes, Yahoo! Inc., Internet application, rich Internet application, Web browser

Discussion threads 2007-05-03

Yahoo goes Rich Internet Application for its browser messenger

Today Yahoo released a web based version of its messenger which was built using Adobes Flex 2 on top of Flash Player 9. The application is very well done and I thought it was more than competitive with Meebo. Its also fast, intuitive and stable, things a lot of people...

Tags: Yahoo, Rich Internet Applications, Flex, Flash, Apollo

Blog posts 2007-05-03