EPISODE · Mar 23, 2007 · 5 MIN
Friday, March 23, 2007
from Audio Escape Almanac · host Brian W. Smith
It's World Meteorological Day and a date in history that's chock full of odd objects traversing the atmosphere. Or almost traversing it... in the case of the near-miss of asteroid 4581-Asclepius today in 1989. It's also the day the Mir Space Station fell from the sky, Gemini 3 launched, and rocketry's father Werner von Braun was born. And it's the day President Reagan announced the Strategic Defense Initiative. Amazing. We'll have some voices and sounds to convey those stories, and then we'll lighten up with a silly song published on this day in 1923. There's also an eight-second snippet from a famous Oratorio that was first performed today in 1743. And finally, there's news of a change in the Almanac beginning next week.
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It's World Meteorological Day and a date in history that's chock full of odd objects traversing the atmosphere. Or almost traversing it... in the case of the near-miss of asteroid 4581-Asclepius today in 1989. It's also the day the Mir Space Station fell from the sky, Gemini 3 launched, and rocketry's father Werner von Braun was born. And it's the day President Reagan announced the Strategic Defense Initiative. Amazing. We'll have some voices and sounds to convey those stories, and then we'll lighten up with a silly song published on this day in 1923. There's also an eight-second snippet from a famous Oratorio that was first performed today in 1743. And finally, there's news of a change in the Almanac beginning next week.
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