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...long ago, when most of us weren?t looking, the space age reached middle age. It?s been 39 years since the first moon landing, 43 since the first spacewalk, 47 since the first human being orbited the Earth. And this week, NASA itself - which was once the last word in moderne - turns 50. That may seem creaky, but the fact is, the space agency has been around a lot longer still...
...technology of powered flight. NACA was established with good intentions but operated mostly as a bureaucratic backwater, a government body that couldn't hope to keep up with a rapidly evolving private industry. In 1957, however, all that changed. That was the year the U.S.S.R. launched Sputnik, the first Earth satellite - and in the process, scared the daylights out of the U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower acted quickly, dusting off NACA and renaming it NASA - for National Aeronautics and Space Administration. On October 1, 1958, the new agency officially went into business...
...course there's Leonardo DiCaprio, who proves conclusively that, contrary to what many conservatives think, earth-friendly habits needn't preclude you from a rich lifestyle of award-winning film performances and rampant supermodel-dating...
...Winfrey chose just one book for her club: Night, Elie Wiesel's somber Holocaust chronicle. After that, she picked five books in 2007 and two so far this year: A New Earth, by Eckhart Tolle and The Story of Edgar Sawtelle...
...dominant traits. How else to explain the fact that both men chose precisely the same day - nearly the same hour - to field press questions for the first time about the collapsing financial sector and the government's proposed $700 billion bailout? Like the cicada crawling up from the earth precisely 17 years after its mom lays her eggs, or the monarch butterfly fluttering a thousand miles to a particular spot, they were driven by something wired, not taught. And even more uncanny: they chose almost exactly the same words...