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event website URL: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

start date and time: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at 3:30 PM

end date and time: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at 3:55 PM

categories:   science   government

event description:

video webcast -

Steven Dick, NASA historian, presents the 4th keynote address on Exploration, Discovery and Culture: NASA's Role in History at the NASA conference entitled NASA's First 50 Years: A Historical Perspective in Washington, D.C. The keynote address will examine 3 questions about NASA and the Space Age:

- If spaceflight is about exploration, how does the Space Age compare to the classical Age of Discovery during the the Renaissance?

- What are the similarities and differences between the Space Age and the Age of Discovery?

- What were the conditions for the Space Age and their impact?

Visit the NASA conference website at:
http://history.nasa.gov/50thannnasaconf/

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