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...professional astronomer, former astronaut and new-paradigm scientist, I was a guest on Art Bell's radio talk show [NATION, April 14] on Feb. 16. To Bell's credit, I had the opportunity to make very clear that I saw absolutely no scientific evidence for any spaceship companion to the Hale-Bopp comet. But I also cited positive evidence for the presence of extraterrestrial intelligence through the UFO phenomenon. It is easy to use the Heaven's Gate tragedy to debunk the entire range of phenomena associated with possible visitations, ignoring government cover-ups of reverse engineering and of radical...
MOSCOW: "It's simply indecent," fumes Russian Space Mission Control Center Chief Deputy Viktor Blagov, responding to American charges that the 11-year-old space station Mir, currently hosting American astronaut Jerry Linenger, is on its last legs. "We would ask the Americans: What kind of experts are you to think about deserting this unique space platform?" According to NASA, cautious ones. Mir has undergone a worrisome stretch of technical foul-ups lately, ranging from an overheated living module to the explosion of an oxygen-generating canister. While the Russians insist everything is under control, NASA does not share their...
Some truly notable descendants of Thomas and Mary (Perkins) Bradbury include Ralph Waldo Emerson 1832 and the astronaut Allan Shephard. Notable descendants of John and Judith (Gater) Perkins of Ipswich include Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, Calvin Coolidge, Millard Fillmore, Max Perkins, Archibald Cox, the Harvard law professor, Lucille Ball, Montgomery Clift, Anthony Perkins and Tennessee Williams. --Martin E. Hollick, reference librarian for the Widener and Lamont libraries
Many of the characters were inherently funny: a buff but sensitive astronaut named Jed Eyenite (Darin P. Goulet '97), a thpitting thucker named Sally Vader (Danton S. Char '98), an arch-browed failed villainness named Irma Geddon (Jesse J. Hawkes '99) and a nerdy Bob Marley named Cal Ipsobeat (Robert E. Schlesinger '00). Not to mention the undeniable show-stealer by virtue of costume, Hugh Jegg (Jason R. Mills '99), an enormous specimen of the ovarian persuasion who did a mean Philip Marlowe imitation...
JEFFREY KLUGER is well qualified to write about the new breed of smaller, simpler Mars ships set to begin launching this week. He was the co-author, with former astronaut Jim Lovell, of Lost Moon, the book that served as the basis for the popular 1995 film Apollo 13. Kluger knows that when it comes to designing spacecraft, less is indeed more. "NASA engineers who worked in the old lunar program liked to point out that an Apollo spacecraft had 5.6 million individual parts," he recalls. "Even if the ship functioned with 99.9% efficiency, you could still expect...