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...Like a comet in the night sky, they flared oh-so-brightly and disappeared--and then came back a few years later. In 1997 the pop group HANSON--brothers ZAC (the little one), TAYLOR (the cute one) and ISAAC (the other one)--sold more than 8 million copies of their debut album, Middle of Nowhere (maybe you remember their No. 1 single, MMMBop), but the band's second effort flopped, and Hanson went away for a long stay in pop purgatory. Now they're back playing club dates in support of a folksy new album called Underneath Acoustic. Little...
...plane, a modified Boeing 707, is unofficially known as the “vomit comet,” or the “weightless wonder,” as NASA prefers in its press releases...
...company, today called Cometa after the Italian word for comet, was unlikely to get funding without a CEO. So Brilliant agreed to fill the role for as long as it took him to draft a business plan and find a suitable replacement. His chosen successor was Gary Weis, 55, an engineer and M.B.A. who had worked at AT&T and IBM. Weis wanted the job, but it took more elephant wrangling--six months of negotiation--to secure his services...
...Leonid shower occurs each November when the Earth’s orbit passes through the trail of dust left by comet Tempel-Tuttle, which swings around the sun once every 33 years. The dust grains, traveling at 158,000 miles per hour, glow and vaporize as friction heats them up in the upper atmosphere and produces streaks of light...
...effort to reach out to today’s students, NASA has allowed undergraduates to fly along on the KC-135 microgravity research airplane, otherwise known as the “Vomit Comet.” (Weightlessness is notorious for inducing vomiting.) The students enter a competitive process to design experiments that need to be done in a weightless environment. The program is meant to drum up interest for the agency’s research among young people born after the space shuttle started flying in the early 1980s. NASA also announced this September the design it has chosen...