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NASA has added a wrinkle in their never-ending attempts to keep the now 42-year-old Voyager's information sending transmissions running for as long as possible and the latest is firing thrusters that haven't been used in decades to keep their antennas pointed at Earth.
The main thrusters have degraded over the years and the thrusters being used currently can keep those antennas pointed in the right spot and keep all of this information from "where no man has gone before" to continue to be gathered for reference.
The Guardian speaks with Petula Clark, who still tours and records at soon to be 87 years of age about her career.
Clark speaks of her child acting career during World War II, her various hits, her marriage, Harry Belafonte and their famous interaction during her NBC special, Elvis Presley, Karen Carpenter and even more.
As a long time fan of Ms.Clark's music, I found it very interesting and learned a bit more about Clark, who will be starring in London as Mary Poppins in the theatre soon, which at 87 is downright stunning when you consider the energy that will take!
Parade talks to Poppy Montgomery about her new show "Reef Break" on ABC among other topics.
I always liked "Without a Trace", which Montgomery was a supporting star of the show, but her character wasn't one of my favorites.
However, Reef Break has been reviewed as a lighter fun show with more of a 60s/70s detective show feel than the grittier shows of today and it looked interesting.
I haven't watched Reef Break yet, but I'm saving them for a binge-watch after baseball season, when I don't have as much to do.
Atlas Obscura wraps this edition with three different links.
The first discusses the "fallen astronaut" sculpture that was left on the moon by the Apollo 15 crew.
The figure salutes the astronauts from both the United States and the Soviet Union that died in the race to the moon and lies alongside a plaque that lists all the names of the fallen.
The second looks at the scientific world that wants to study Okjokull, a glacier near Iceland that is almost nearly devoid of ice after warming.
Recently, a plaque was left on a stone on Okjokull that lists that this was once the site of a glacier, and in case someone finds it in the future that may not know what glaciers are, what they were composed of, how many existed and how they may have been eliminated.
The final note mentions the Buzludzha Memorial House, which was built by the then communist government of Bulgaria in 1981, only to be abandoned nine years later with the fall of communism in Bulgaria.
Located at the top of a peak in the Balkan mountains, Buzludzha was a meeting place for the Bulgarian leaders but has not been maintained since 1990.
The building has been looked at for damage and preservation experts state that work needs to be done in preferably the next five years or no more than the next ten or the building will not remain salvageable.
The inbox is close to being spic and span for a while with only another passings post to finish the job.
I still have a road trip to work on, so count things to keep flowing along for a while!
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