I collect NASA Special Publications, and just got SP-4402 "Origins of NASA Names", from 1976. It's a goldmine.

For example why did the rocket that launched the first US satellite (Explorer 1) have a UE on it? Because it was booster 29 in the Jupiter C production line and ABMA (what became NASA Marshall) used a goofy little cipher to confuse Soviet spies (and everyone else).

Opened up Instagram to see a number of friends clustered in Las Vegas.

This is a problem. No, not because Sin City. Because Instagram apparently opted in everyone.

Turn it off under chat.

I last polled about this at the beginning of June. Here is a revised version. Please boost for reach.

If you are a trans woman and have a US passport marked “F”, and have reentered the US since June 1, what was your experience (multiple choice)

"On August 6, 1991 [34 years ago], the first website was introduced to the world. [It] contained information about the World Wide Web Project. It launched at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN, where it was created by British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee."

http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

Happy birthday, web!

Via https://www.npr.org/2021/08/06/1025554426/a-look-back-at-the-very-first-website-ever-launched-30-years-later

#TheWeb #internet #WorldWideWeb #FirstWebsite #history #OTD

"The U.S. Navy will permanently cut its stream of data from three weather satellites essential to hurricane forecasters this Thursday, with the peak of the Atlantic hurricane season just weeks away."

https://michaelrlowry.substack.com/p/navy-set-to-unplug-critical-hurricane