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...more than 15 years ago, the idea was to visit the last and most distant of the nine planets, an oddball whose icy composition, tilted orbit and tiny size made it unlike anything else in the solar system. But when the New Horizons probe finally takes off from Cape Canaveral???as early as next week, if all goes well?it will be heading for something else entirely. "This little misfit is now central to our understanding of the origin of our solar system," says Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo., and lead scientist for New Horizons...
...fellow citizens, the President had risen early on the morning of the Glenn flight, had followed the tense hours from countdown to recovery of the capsule on his TV set. After the speeches, the President and Glenn inspected the capsule. Kennedy ?on his first trip to Canaveral???seemed fascinated, and Glenn, in matter-of-fact "hangar talk," described the tense moments when he was reentering the atmosphere. During the inspection, Mrs. John Glenn Sr. expressed some motherly concern over the lack of space in a spaceship: "I'd think your feet would go to sleep lying there so long...
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