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...astronauts are scheduled to don the spacesuits, and one will make the historic spacewalk. A small monitoring satellite will be released from the ship during the mission. The crew is People's Liberation Army Air Force fighter pilots Zhai Zhigang, Liu Boming and Jing Haipeng. "Shenzhou VII is another breakthrough in China's development of manned spaceflght, and we are entrusted with an honorable mission with historical significance," Zhai told a pre-launch press conference on Sept. 24. "As an astronaut, it is the greatest honor to launch into space on behalf of our motherland...
...kinesiologists, and engineers to bear on overhauling the last generation of its Fastskin racing suit, the FS Pro. So the LZR Racer has a few more bells and whistles than the Tracer Rise. For one thing, it looks a lot cooler. The long grey panels - you feel like an astronaut crossed with a figure skater - are products of multiple levels of technological innovation. Speedo used a NASA lab to measure more than 90 different fabrics in a wind tunnel to find the one with the smallest drag coefficient. It eventually settled on a nylon estane base fabric and a thin...
MOSES IN DYSTOPIA And when he wasn't at home in the past, he was a voyager into the future. For a while in the late 60s and early 70s, Heston owned the upscale science fiction genre. As the stranded astronaut on the Planet of the Apes, he was the ultimate loner: the only member of his species in a world ruled by monkeys. Heston had caught a cold on the shoot, but director Franklin Schaffner insisted they keep filming, because the new gruffness in the star's voice lent a desperate urgency to his lines, from his first words...
...held its eleventh annual Women’s Leadership Awards dinner at the Charles Hotel last night, recognizing Katherine A. Beck ’08, Elizabeth M. Grosso ’08, and Meghan Pasricha ’08. Stephanie D. Wilson ’88, a NASA astronaut, was given the Women’s Professional Achievement Award. “We recognize outstanding seniors at Harvard who have made contributions to the community and whose example can serve as an inspiration for other women at Harvard to excel,” said Women’s Center director...
Last night decorated NASA astronaut Daniel C. Burbank provided a rare glimpse into life in space. The Coast Guard captain spoke about the space program and showed photos and videos of mankind’s most distinguished zero-gravity job, in a talk held by the Harvard College Aviation Club and the Paul Revere Battalion of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC). “I still have to pinch myself in the morning. I can’t believe all I’ve done is real,” Burbank said. Captain David M. Gowel...