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  2. Jeff Bezos - Wikipedia

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    Early life and education Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen was born on January 12, 1964, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, as the son of Jacklyn (née Gise) and Ted Jorgensen. At the time of Jeff's birth, his mother was a 17-year-old high-school student and his father was 19 years old. Jorgensen was a Danish American unicyclist born in Chicago to a family of Baptists. After completing high school despite ...

  3. GoTo Meeting - Wikipedia

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    GoTo Meeting, previously known as GoToMeeting, is a web conferencing tool developed by GoTo. [2] This software facilitates online meeting, desktop sharing, and video conferencing software package that enables the user to meet with other participants via the Internet in real time. In late 2015, Citrix announced plans to spin off the GoTo Meeting ...

  4. Lunar and Planetary Institute - Wikipedia

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    Website. www .lpi .usra .edu. The Lunar and Planetary Institute ( LPI) is a scientific research institute dedicated to study of the solar system, its formation, evolution, and current state. The Institute is part of the Universities Space Research Association [1] (USRA) and is supported by the Science Mission Directorate of the National ...

  5. Virginia Spaceport Authority - Wikipedia

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    The Virginia Spaceport Authority, [1] formally better known as Virginia Space, is a political subdivision of the Commonwealth of Virginia headquartered in Norfolk, Virginia focused on bringing commercial spaceflight to Virginia and providing education in aerospace technologies across the Commonwealth. Created in 1995 as the Virginia Commercial ...

  6. University of Virginia - Wikipedia

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    University of Virginia. /  38.03556°N 78.50333°W  / 38.03556; -78.50333. The University of Virginia ( UVA) is a public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States. It was founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson and contains his Academical Village, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

  7. Langley Research Center - Wikipedia

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    Langley Research Center. The Langley Research Center ( LaRC or NASA Langley ), located in Hampton, Virginia near the Chesapeake Bay front of Langley Air Force Base, is the oldest of NASA 's field centers. [1] LaRC has focused primarily on aeronautical research but has also tested space hardware such as the Apollo Lunar Module.

  8. Generic top-level domain - Wikipedia

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    The initial set of generic top-level domains, defined by RFC 920 in October 1984, was a set of "general purpose domains": com, edu, gov, mil, org. The net domain was added with the first implementation of these domains. The com, net, and org TLDs, despite their originally specified goals, are now open to use for any purpose.

  9. Challenger Center for Space Science Education - Wikipedia

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    Logo. Challenger Center for Space Science Education is a United States 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization headquartered in Washington, DC. It was founded in 1986 by the families of the astronauts who died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster on January 28, 1986. The organization's mission is to inspire and educate students in science ...