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For centuries, the road to Ubar appeared to be blotted out forever. T.E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") dreamed of locating the lost city, which he called "the Atlantis of the sands," but did not live to carry out the search. Others launched fruitless expeditions in 1947 and 1953. But last...
/ In the 20th century, Lucretius' shores of light vanished like the coasts of Atlantis, carried under by terrible convulsions. The ascendant civilizations (the Europeans, Americans, Japanese) accomplished horrors that amounted to a usurpation of the power of God over creation. The world in this century went about a work of...
It had been more than five years since an American walked in space, but the crew of the shuttle Atlantis did not seem rusty. On a first, unscheduled 4 1/ 2-hour jaunt, astronauts Jerry Ross and Jay Apt freed a balky antenna on an observatory satellite, permitting the $617...
Astronomers will get a chance to answer some of these questions -- and more -- over the next two to eight years as a result of last week's NASA launch of the Gamma Ray Observatory on board the space shuttle Atlantis. The 17.5-ton GRO will circle the earth at a...
Less than an hour after engineers began pumping 385,000 gal. of highly explosive liquid hydrogen into the fuel tank of the space shuttle Columbia, the countdown was halted and the flight scrubbed -- for the third time in just over three months. "We do not consider that the vehicle is...