Discovering a Universe Beyond the Cosmic Shore

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Dr. John D. Johnson gives a presentation at the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, IA, July 2012 on NASA and space exploration. Most of the presentation is graphical with his narration (not included).

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TEDxISU, http://youtu.be/jSxvI27QcmQ

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•  "When you dream of a tomorrow and you want to then invent that tomorrow, you need scientists, engineers and technologists to do that and when you innovate, you pump the economy like no other force of nature can.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson

•  “The earth is the cradle of the mind, but one cannot forever live in a cradle.” – Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1896)

•  “I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.” - Isaac Newton