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Former Senator and astronaut John H. Glenn told a packed ARCO forum last night that the American secondary school system does not treat or train its teachers well enough, and students are suffering...
...moments of balance and control I had felt on the skis (out of hours of pounding and snow-eating) and the excitement of working out on the actual Olympic course at Lake Placid (even though I was as far from Olympic glory as I was from being an astronaut) were much more vivid in my memory than the nasty, discouraging, humiliating, painful part of the trip, and by the time my ass stopped hurting I was ready for more...
...robots at age 8 when she saw Star Wars for the first time. "I just fell in love with the Droids," she says, especially R2-D2. "But I was old enough to realize those kinds of robots didn't exist." Growing up, she considered becoming a doctor and an astronaut. But she never gave up her interest in robots. When she studied astronomy, she was particularly intrigued by lunar rovers, which are really just a specialized form of robot. After graduating from the University of California at Santa Barbara, Breazeal went to M.I.T. in the early 1990s to become part...
...such an important event, there was little in the way of ceremony as the crew made its way aboard. Once astronaut Sergei Krikalev had opened the space station hatches, he simply floated through and turned on the lights. The ceremony came later, once a video camera was in place and the three men in blue overall jumpers and white shirts could be seen back on Earth...
...including wife Beth and Russian ground controllers (who pronounce it "Ship"). Shepherd, 51, joined the U.S. Navy to become a pilot, then the only route to commanding a space mission. Poor eyesight ended that dream, so he became a frogman and used that as a stepping-stone to the Astronaut Corps, but as a mission specialist, not a commander - someone qualified to ride the space shuttle...