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...Tupolev plane belonging to Air Koryo, the national North Korean airline, for the two-hour flight to Pyongyang. We had no itinerary because our trip was considered "secret" information at that point. After landing, we were asked to hand over any cell phone, computer with GPS, radio and video camera???all forbidden from that moment forward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard: North Korea | 1/3/2008 | See Source »

...astronauts compensated for the uninspiring conversations with Houston during several performances in front of their color television camera???something that apparently can bring out the ham in any man. At one point, Collins said: "O.K., world. Hang onto your hat. I'm going to turn you upside down." As Collins rotated his camera, keeping it pointed toward the earth, the blue and white planet took an erratic 180° turn on earth-based TV screens. "I'm making myself seasick," Collins called to Houston. "I'm going to put you right side up." The earth promptly performed another lazy turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moon: A GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND | 7/25/1969 | See Source »

Moving Pictures. Photographs at the rate of 300,000 a minute?31 times as fast as those taken by the slow-motion camera???are being made at Shoeburyness, England, by the British Ordnance Department, to examine the impact of shells on armor plate. The camera weighs two tons, and shows how golf balls and other hard objects are flattened and pressed out of shape when struck and in flight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Machine Age | 2/4/1924 | See Source »

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