New York Times (10/1/98)
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After 4 Decades, the Agency of the Future
Is Left to Look Back
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By John Noble Wilford
Anniversaries are not always occasions for celebration
-- not if they are haunted by memories of past public glory and by the
knowledge that prospects for a new golden age are slim. It is that kind
of anniversary for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration 40
years after its birth on Oct. 1, 1958. (Full
story and lesson) |
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Unity/Zarya
A Whole New Era In Space Flight
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In a historic moment, Mission Commander Robert Cabana
and Russian Cosmonaut/Mission Specialist Sergei Krikalev swung open the
hatch between the Endeavour and the First Element of the International
Space Station at 1:15 p.m. CST, Thursday, December 10, 1998.
The STS-88 astronauts completed the first steps in the
orbital construction of the International Space Station. In all, it took
Jerry Ross and James Newman three space walks totalling 21 hours and 22
minutes to complete the initial assembly of the station.
(Full story) |
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Sky &
Telescope 3/17/99 |
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Whence Came the Moon?
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This week, scientists
are meeting in Houston, Texas, for the 30th Lunar and Planetary Science
Conference. Among the
results presented
there were signs that the Moon did indeed form from the remnants of a collision
between the Earth and a Mars-size body early in the history of the solar
system. New support for this scenario comes from data collected by NASA's
Lunar Prospector spacecraft. Analysis by Alex Konopliv (Jet Propulsion
Laboratory) of gravity measurements reveal that the Moon has a small metal-rich
core, amounting to only 4 percentof the body's total mass (Earth's core
is 30 percent of the planet). (Full
Story) |
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Space
Factoid
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| The National
Aeronautics and Space Administration began operation October 1, 1958 with
8000 employees and a $100 million annual budget. Only 10 days later,
it launched Pioneer I, NASA's first space vehicle launched. |
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Quotable Quotes
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The
past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been
is but the twilight of the dawn.
- H.G. Wells, "The Discovery
of the Future," 1901 |
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