Goddard Videos

For more info: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/universe/features/cobe_20th.html Want more? Subscribe to NASA on iTunes! http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=283424434 Or get tweeted by NASA: http://twitter.com/NASAGoddard This COBE informational video was produced more than 20 years ago, before the satellite embarked on its mission to study the cosmic microwave background.

For more information visit http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0910/13tdrs After 25 years of service, the first TDRS tracking and communication satellite was retired in October 2009. Launched on STS-6 Challenger, it has been at work four times longer than designed. It recovered data from the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory after its recorders failed. It was the first to monitor a space shuttle deorbit burn from over the Indian Ocean, the first to collect and beam back live data during launches from the Kennedy Space Center in the early 1990's, and was one of the few satellite communications oppportunities for researchers and explorers at high altitutde. This video shows early highlights from its mission. Want more? Subscribe to NASA on iTunes! http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=283424434 Or get tweeted by NASA: http://twitter.com/NASAGoddard

In 2006, "Hacking Democracy" demonstrated how an election outcome can be altered. What happens in a community when its citizens believe their election was stolen? Fatally Flawed is a true detective story about a two billion dollar bond transportation measure passed under suspicious circumstances in Pima County, Arizona.

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Residents of the U.S. Gulf coast thought they were getting a break this hurricane season until Ida showed up. For more info: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hurricanes/archives/2009/h2009_Ida.html Want more? Subscribe to NASA on iTunes! http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=283424434 Or get tweeted by NASA: http://twitter.com/NASAGoddard