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...Casual discussions in various offices around the Center concern satellite launching, photon sorting, and ways of measuring gravity waves. A bumper sticker on one office door says cryptically, "Black holes are out of sight," while a door in the basement carries the impressive label "Cosmic Dust, Meteorite, and Lunar Studies Lab." In another basement lab two scientists tinker with an elaborate device that, when finished, will heat molecules so their spectra at temperatures above 2500 degrees Centigrade (4500 Fahrenheit) can be observed. At that temperature even iron becomes a vapor, as it is in stars...
Press demonstrated additional versatility by his involvement in the 1970 experiment in which a spent Saturn rocket, used to launch an Apollo mission, was crashed onto the moon. The resulting impact, measured by seismographs left on the lunar surface by earlier missions, enabled Press and his fellow seismologists to determine the characteristics of the moon's crust. In 1974 Press led a delegation of U.S. scientists on a tour of Chinese earthquake research centers and returned with the amazing news that the country had an army of 10,000 scientists and 100,000 amateurs engaged in collecting earthquake data...
They have been likened to bubble gum beehives, musculatured mushrooms, humanoid terrariums, lunar campsites, shingled igloos and plastic puffballs. By whatever designation, but for every good reason, the geodesic dome home is finally winning acceptance and approbation...
...were born in January or early February, you should count your astrological year as the year before you were born because the lunar calendar does not coincide exactly with the Western solar calendar. For example, if you were born in January, 1956, your sign is the ram, not the monkey...
Most Appealing. Museum Director Michael Collins, the Apollo 11 astronaut who circled the moon in the command module Columbia while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin explored the lunar surface for the first time, figures that the Spirit is the most popular airplane in NASM. It was a big drawing card in the Smithsonian's old building as well, and Lindbergh himself viewed it there a number of times. Once, in 1959, Lindbergh asked museum officials if he might see the plane alone and startled them when he also requested a ladder. Without a word, he climbed the ladder...