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This far-flung air battle will be directed by Air Force E-3 AWACS and Navy E-2 Hawkeye planes, the controllers aboard them squinting at radar screens tracking friendly and enemy planes in all directions. They will also be receiving up-to-the-minute data on Iraqi positions on the ground from the Navy's ES-3A Shadow jet, hovering just south of the Iraqi border, which will electronically vacuum up radio transmissions from Saddam's forces. The Shadow squadron's motto: In God We Trust--All Others We Monitor...
...they who called it El Nino, the Spanish name for the Christ child whose December birthday marks its peak.) But last fall, Columbia University oceanographer Richard Fairbanks was floating in the equatorial Pacific gathering data that could tell researchers about El Ninos going back thousands of years. Working aboard the research vessel Moana Wave, Fairbanks spent weeks at El Nino's very epicenter, a patch of ocean near Christmas Island. Using a powerful oil drill, he and his colleagues repeatedly bored into ancient reef beds buried beneath the sea floor, pulling up chunks of coral as white as sun-bleached...
...when NASA told him he was too old to fly. John Young, 67, who flew twice each in the Gemini, Apollo and shuttle programs, is still listed on NASA's active-flight manifest. It could be argued that both would have been equally qualified for a seat aboard the shuttle. However, as Goldin points out, "there is only one John Glenn...
WASHINGTON: He's still got the Right Stuff. John Glenn, the 76-year-old senator who was the first American to orbit the Earth back in 1962, is going back into space. NASA confirmed Friday that Glenn has been accepted to fly aboard the Space Shuttle this October as a payload specialist."I'm ready for another adventure into the unknown," said Glenn. "It's extraordinary," says Jeffrey Kluger, TIME's space writer and author of Lost Moon. "He's the grand old man of the space program...
...explained that a spark carrying one-quarter millijoule of energy was all that was necessary to ignite the contents of the 12,890-gal. central fuel tank of TWA Flight 800 in 1996 off Long Island--a tank that then exploded, destroying the plane and killing all 230 people aboard...