World Travel Globe Announces Sweepstakes Winner of iPhone 5

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(PRWEB UK) 20 June 2013

World Travel Globe, an interactive iPhone app, announces the lucky winner of its sweepstakes. The winner, hailing from Aberdeen, Scotland, entered in the sweepstakes simply by Liking World Travel Globes Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/World.Travel.Globe.

World Travel Globe is an app that allows both business travelers and vacationers to funnel information from multiple websites onto one platform. Users can research foreign cities with one click, as the app pulls up information like the country and city population, language, currency used, exchange rate, time differences, visa requirements, metro stations and public transportation systems, and more.

I would like to say a big thank you to World Travel Globe for my new iPhone 5, said the winner, Morag. I will surely be promoting your app, and I will also make sure all my family and friends do so too. I love Apple technology and this will be a wonderful addition to my Apple products.

The app also allows travelers on-the-go to book hotels and flights, and pictures galleries of restaurants, maps, and more. Contingent upon the location picked, the Whats Hot feature can also pull up ongoing current events and festivals like carnivals, sporting competitions, and more.

I wanted to thank my fans for their support, which is why I initiated a sweepstakes, said World Travel Globe creator Marcus Crellin. We are beyond excited to officially launch the app this summer.

About World Travel Globe World Travel Globe is an iPhone application that assists with the planning of trips. Spin the globe and hit anywhere in the world to discover new places and adventures for travel destinations, including ongoing events like festivals, major sporting events, carnivals, and more. World Travel Globe will pull up the necessary information from all over the web to help plan a trip from the convenience of your phone, supplying the user with related regional information, weather forecasts, currency and exchange rates, time differences, and visa requirements.

To see what World Travel Globe can do for you, visit http://www.worldtravelglobe.com.

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NAMASTE SUCKERS: Urban Spirituality – Keepin’ It Real: Lesson 21: Who is God? – Video

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Is there such a #39;thing #39; as God? And if so, what/ who is God? Watch Alessandrina Lerner, owner at The Detox Co., as she discusses the existing belief systems ...

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Accelerating Space Station Science: NASA Marshall’s Upgraded Payload Operations Integration Center Enhances Station Work

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NASA unveiled today an upgraded Payload Operations Integration Center at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. The operation center's new capabilities enhance collaboration and enable the ground team to efficiently help the International Space Station crew and researchers around the world perform cutting-edge science in the unique space environment.

The Payload Operations Integration Center -- which began around-the-clock operations March 19, 2001 -- plans and coordinates all the research activities on the space station. Since NASA and 15 international partners completed station assembly in 2011, crews have devoted more time to conducting space station science.

"Conducting cutting-edge research that benefits space exploration as well as life on Earth is a top priority for the space station," said Michael Suffredini, manager of NASA's International Space Station Program. "With this amazing in-space laboratory now fully functional, the crews are able to dedicate more time each week to scientific research and the payload operations team at Marshall has had a major role in making that happen."

The first upgrades to the control room since it was established were completed on June 11. The renovated room features a video wall that expands the ability to share information, such as live video, diagrams and photographs of experiments or displays on experiment power usage or scientific data acquisition. The wall instantly allows the data to be shared by the full team and has the capability to show multiple data and video views related to one or more experiments. With more than 200 experiments on the station at any time, sharing information rapidly among the ground team members and the crew in space is important. With the upgraded flight control room's new arrangement of flight control positions, communication is improved.

"Over the course of the last 12 years, our team has learned much about how they can collaborate to maximize science return," said Jay Onken, manager of the Mission Operations Laboratory at Marshall. "They used this knowledge to redesign the control room to have the most modern technical equipment to support the most amazing international engineering and scientific endeavor of the century."

The upgrades complement the planned modernization of the International Space Station mission control center at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. The control center in Houston and the operations center in Huntsville both operate 24/7, 365 days a year and interact continuously.

"We recently achieved a major milestone exceeding the goal of completing an average of 37 hours of crew-tended science per week across a six month period," said Carmen Price, leader of the payload operations integration function at Marshall. "Our team even helped the crew achieve a record 72 hours of crew-tended science experiments -- the most hours of science ever conducted by a space station crew in a single week. While the crew is sleeping, we are here conducting experiments remotely from Earth, ensuring numerous automated experiments have the power and data recording and transmission needed to operate successfully."

From the Apollo Program to Skylab to Shuttle/Spacelab missions, Marshall engineers and scientists have collaborated to provide both space-based and ground-based science research facilities for the NASA science community. In addition to its operations role, Marshall manages many science facilities that house station experiments and the Environmental Control and Life Support System that makes it possible for people to live on the station. Marshall's support for the station is a continuation of its key roles in previous human spaceflight programs.

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International Space Station looks more like Star Trek’s USS Enterprise in astrophotographer’s incredible picture

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The shots were captured using a 150mm f/12 Maksutov telescope They were taken by Maximilian Teodorescu near the town of Dumitrana in Romania

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PUBLISHED: 06:27 EST, 20 June 2013 | UPDATED: 07:19 EST, 20 June 2013

While testing his new telescope a Romanian astrophotographer managed to capture clear images of the International Space Station passing in front of the moon, in broad daylight.

And the snap makes Nasa's space station look remarkably like the iconic USS Enterprise from TV show Star Trek.

Maximilian Teodorescu was testing the range of his new 150mm f/12 Maksutov telescope near the town of Dumitrana in Romania earlier this month when he took the shot.

This shot of the International Space Station as it crosses in front of the moon was taken by Romanian astrophotographer Maximilian Teodorescu. It bears a striking resemblance to the USS Enterprise ship from TV show Star Trek

The Starship Enterprise was one of the ships that featured in the Star Trek franchise. In the show, this NX-01 model was the first NX-class starship and was launched by the United Earth Starfleet in 2151

Teodorescu took the images on 15 June at around 6.17pm in Romania.

He posted the photos tohis blog. Translated from Romanian, it reads: 'A new 'First-light' or rather 'First-photo'.

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