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  Ray Viator Knows How Houston Earned the Name Space City

  May 20 at 4 a.m.

  Almost 50 years ago, as those glued to television sets were collectively holding their breath while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin completed their lunar module landing tasks, we heard those now famous words: "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed." The Apollo 11 lunar landing forever cemented Houston as Space City in...

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  The Weather Doesn't Stop Houston From Coming Out For Comicpalooza 2019

  May 11 at 7:49 a.m.

  The overnight weather may have shuttered other businesses in the city, but it didn’t stop Houston’s annual Comicpalooza from touching down at the George R Brown Convention Center Friday morning. The event, first started to highlight the works of local creators, has come a long way since its beginnings in...

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  Visit The Red Planet With SPA's Exploring Mars

  May 2 at 4 a.m.

  Society for the Performing Arts will present Kobie Boykins, a NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory mechanical engineer, for Exploring Mars as part of its National Geographic Live partnership at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Wortham Center's Cullen Theater.

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  15 Shows to Kick Off Your Podcast Habit in 2019

  January 28 at 5 a.m.

  Stop us if you've heard this before — the podcast industry is booming. Sometime around 2014, podcasts went from niche to mainstream overnight thanks in no small part to Sarah Koenig and her unfathomably popular true crime podcast, Serial. While podcasting had, in theory, been around since the 1980s and in...

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  NASA's Voyager Golden Record Now Available to the Public

  Tuesday, November 28, 2017 at 4 a.m.

  It's been 30 years since NASA scientists launched the famed Golden Records — described by NASA as a mixed tape "intended to communicate the story of our world to extraterrestrials" — on Voyager spacecrafts 1 and 2, and while aliens have had the opportunity to give the records a listen...

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  NASA Scientist Held in Turkey Denied Bail Yet Again

  Monday, November 20, 2017 at 4 a.m.

  At this point it's not exactly a surprise that Serkan Golge, a 37-year-old physicist and U.S.-Turkish dual citizen who has been held in Turkey for more than a year on charges of his alleged involvement in the failed coup last year, was once again denied bail at his latest hearing...