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...moon. Upon arrival, a maximum of 72 participants are broken up into six teams of 12. From that moment on, the activities are nonstop. You'll build and launch your own rockets, participate in very realistic space simulations, and tour the Kennedy Space Center and the Astronaut Hall of Fame. You'll also visit at least two shuttle launching pads and perhaps, if your timing is right, even catch one of three shuttle launches scheduled for this summer. Not only will you know what it feels like to walk on the moon, but you'll also learn a lot about...
...cinematography is beautiful, the characters are good-looking and DiCaprio and Winslet have good chemistry. The film is a nice romance with $200 million worth of scenery, and I am glad that I spent my $7.75 on it. If you have not seen it (i.e. you are an astronaut just returning to earth or a senior working on your thesis) it is a spectacle worth viewing on the big screen...
John Glenn was floating back down to Earth after becoming the first astronaut to orbit the planet. Along with the other White House correspondents, I was waiting for the President's statement when I was suddenly summoned to the Oval Office. I was jubilant, believing Kennedy was going to reward me because of TIME's interest in space with an exclusive view of him talking by phone to Glenn...
...backup for Christa McAuliffe on the doomed Challenger mission, would be assigned to a flight as well. That did not satisfy all naysayers, however, and their criticism was not completely unfounded. Glenn is hardly the only older pilot the agency had on hand. Story Musgrave, a six-time shuttle astronaut, retired from the astronaut corps in 1996 at age 61 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...
...announcement that the world's most famous astronaut would return to space next October, 36 years after becoming the first American to orbit the earth, was greeted with pleasure, amazement and some skepticism. Critics argued that the flight was merely a public relations stunt; NASA insisted it was motivated by good, hard science. Glenn, while officially echoing NASA, added a reason of his own: "I see this," he said, "as another adventure into the unknown...