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Putnam awarded to host a call from space, selected by NASA
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Press release submitted by Putnam Museum Houston, we are calling the Putnam Museum! The Putnam Museum was awarded with the honor of being one of only 6 venues across the United States, to host a call from space - selected by NASA through a competitive application process. The NASA space call is an once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for select area students. On Friday, January 25 astronauts from Expedition 34, currently on board the International Space Station, will call the Putnam Museum LIVE and appear on Screen in the National Geographic Giant Screen Theater. 20 students will have the opportunity to ask a question live to an astronaut and have it answered. In addition to the live space call, a teacher workshop will be held by NASA educator John Weis. A curriculum is available to all teachers and student participants that will take part in space-themed activities and visit the Museum's new exhibition, Destination: Space. Destination: Space is an exhibition that explores how our world on Earth has been improved by space exploration as well as what it takes to enter the "final frontier." Authentic space artifacts, including pieces on loan from NASA and new STEM interactives will help tell the story of our journey to space and the incredible advances made for those who remain on Earth. Visitors will find interactive sections on astronauts, space communications, engineering and materials science and will discover how regional employers have played a role in conquering space and how they too, can have a career that plays a part. This exhibition has been generously sponsored by Alcoa. 
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Today is Tuesday, May 21, the 141st day of 2013. There are 224 days left in the year.
1863 -- 150 years ago: On Monday the 11th inst. on Center Ridge in Mercer County,some citizens got out their cannon to celebrate the taking of Richmond. The gun wasoverloaded and burst. No one was injured, but one 30-pound piece went though thesecond story of a house.
1888 -- 125 years ago: The old folks concert at the Harper Theater last night to benefit St.Luke's Cottage Hospital, attracted a large audience.
1913 -- 100 years ago: Unless depredation by vandals in Rock Island parks is halted,special policemen will be assigned to night duty to protect the flowers and other property.
1938 -- 75 years ago: Station WHBF has received a special citation from Washington forits participation in Air Mail Week, which was observed this week throughout the nation.
1963 -- 50 years ago: A 10-year high in employment in the Quad-City area was reachedat the end of the last quarter, according to an industrial employment barometer releasedtoday.
1988 -- 25 years ago: Pee Wee teams will be able to play baseball and softball as usualon Diamond Three at Dorrance Park this summer, but after that, the ball field is doomed.County crews have put the diamond back in shape after heavy trucks marred the playingfield earlier this spring. Illinois Department of Transportation crews drove onto it to makeborings for the relocation of the junction of Illinois 84 and the Port Byron-Hillsdale road.
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