--New Reborn Piaggio Vespa 1946-2012--

--Japan Mar 11th 2011--

--Apollo 11 30th anniversary 1969~1999 --

Apollo 11 is the designation of the space flight that landed the first humans on Earth's Moon on July 20, 1969. The mission, carried out by the United States, is considered a major accomplishment in the history of exploration and represented a victory for the U.S. in the Cold War Space Race with the Soviet Union.
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Launched from Florida on July 16, the third lunar mission of NASA's Apollo program (and the only G-type mission) was crewed by Commander Neil Alden Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins, and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin Eugene "Buzz" Aldrin, Jr. On July 20, Armstrong and Aldrin landed in the Sea of Tranquility and on July 21 became the first humans to walk on the Moon. Their landing craft, Eagle, spent 21 hours and 31 minutes on the lunar surface while Collins orbited above in the command ship, Columbia. The three astronauts returned to Earth with 47.5 pounds (21.5 kg) of lunar rocks and landed in the Pacific Ocean on July 24.
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Apollo 11 fulfilled U.S. President John F. Kennedy's goal of reaching the moon before the Soviet Union by the end of the 1960s, which he had expressed during a 1961 mission statement before the United States Congress: "I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth."

Five additional Apollo missions landed on the Moon from 1969–1972.

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~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11
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~http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/apollo_11_30th.html

--中国-嫦娥二号卫星发射--

嫦娥二号卫星简称嫦娥二号，也称为二号星，嫦娥二号是嫦娥一号卫星的姐妹星，由长三丙火箭发射。但是嫦娥二号卫星上搭载的CCD照相机的分辨率将更高，其它探测设备也将有所改进，所探测到的有关月球的数据将更加翔实。嫦娥二号卫星有望在2010年国庆节期间发射。
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~http://baike.baidu.com/view/1220064.htm

--NASA finds shrimp dinner beneath Antarctica--

updated 10:46 a.m. ET March 15, 2010

WASHINGTON - In a surprising discovery about where higher life can thrive, scientists for the first time found a shrimp-like creature and a jellyfish frolicking beneath a massive Antarctic ice sheet.

Six hundred feet below the ice where no light shines, scientists had figured nothing much more than a few microbes could exist.

That's why a NASA team was surprised when they lowered a video camera to get the first long look at the underbelly of an ice sheet in Antarctica. A curious shrimp-like creature came swimming by and then parked itself on the camera's cable. Scientists also pulled up a tentacle they believe came from a foot-long jellyfish.

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~http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35872901/ns/technology_and_science-science/?GT1=43001

--Boeing 797 Giant "Blended Wing" Passenger Airliner--

The story says that the Boeing Company is developing a radical new passenger jetliner that will carry 1,000 passengers. It's designated the 797 and is a "blended wing" design looking a lot like the old flying wing experiments of the 50's.
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What is true, according to Boeing, is that Boeing Phantom Works, the company's advanced research and development organization, is doing research on the blended wing body design as a potential military aircraft. Boeing has built a scale model to test its low-speed flying characteristics in a wind tunnel. There are also plans (as of 7/13/07) to flight test a scale model.






~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/797

--Mercedes-Benz CLS Class--

The Mercedes-Benz CLS is an executive-size sedan based on the W211 E-Class platform. Marketed as a 'four door coupe,' the CLS recalls the fastback saloon designs of Robert Opron in the 1970s. According to a Mercedes-Benz press release, the CLS-class was produced to combine the "strong, emotive charisma" of a coupe with the "comfort and practicality" of a saloon. Save for its four-door design, the CLS's design tends towards a coupe, as its sleek roofline reduces the rear passenger room to a 2+2 arrangement, and it offers a smaller selection of engines tending towards high powered of the range, compared to contemporary sedans such as the E-Class.

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The current iteration of the CLS is internally designated as the C219 and it was first offered for sale in Europe in autumn 2004. It is assembled by Daimler AG in Sindelfingen, Germany and Mercedes-Benz-Valdez in Santiago Tianguistenco, Mexico.

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~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_CLS-Class

~http://www2.mercedes-benz.co.uk/content/unitedkingdom/mpc/mpc_unitedkingdom_website/en/home_mpc/passengercars/home/new_cars/models/cls-class/c219.flash.html#chapter=1

~http://www.edmunds.com/mercedesbenz/clsclass/review.html

--North American Union....One World Government??--

--Portable Fuel Cell Power (2008)--

Millennium Cell Inc. and Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies announced the completion of a pre-production version of the HydroPak portable power generator that incorporates a unique water-activated cartridge system. The HydroPak product combines Horizon's fuel cells with Millennium Cell's Hydrogen on Demand storage technology to offer a clean and quiet power generator for use by consumers and professionals for emergency and recreational purposes.

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This power source is a high energy alternative to lead acid battery packs and portable generators. The HydroPak(TM) system, together with each cartridge:

• Provides infinite shelf life and enough energy to recharge an average notebook computer 8 to 10 times
• Can run indoors with quiet operation and zero harmful emissions
• Is quieter, lighter and smaller than generators
• Stores more energy than possible with batteries
• Has a lower cost than any similar fuel cell device

The HydroPak will debut at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) at the Las Vegas Convention Center from Jan. 7-10. The system will also be shown to the U.S. military at the Tactical Power Sources Summit 2008 at the Georgetown University Conference Center in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 29-30. These conferences are the first venues where potential users and distributors can see HydroPak emergency power products publicly in the United States.

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~http://www.efficientenergy.org/HydroPak-Portable-Fuel-Cell-Power-Pack