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...year 1006, the heavens grew suddenly bright as a spectacular astronomical explosion produced a new star as bright as the quarter moon and casting shadows on the ground...
...German scientists, including his longtime friend Wernher von Braun, who were secretly brought to the U.S. at the end of World War II. Later made manager of the Saturn V project in Huntsville, Ala., he led the development of the rocket that first took men to the moon. An American citizen since 1954, Rudolph was honored by NASA in 1969 with its most prestigious award, the Distinguished Service Medal...
...pneumonia; in Cambridge, England. His major discovery, aperture synthesis, provided a method of focusing many small, separate radio antennas to fill in the gaps in broad-band radio waves, allowing astronomers to record tiny details, equivalent in terms of optical telescopes to reading a postage stamp on the moon...
...agency's overall program. Over the part three decades, the development of the space program has been based on three major decisions: Dwight Eisenhower's 1955 move to initiate space travel with the development of the Vanguard satellite; John F. Kennedy's 1961 decision to put people on the moon; and Richard M. Nixon's 1969 plan to do away with the disposable space craft and develop the shuttle. The next stop. NASA officials say, is to develop a permanent U.S. presence in space with an eye toward commercialization...
Unlike U2, Persian Gulf also manages to blend the surreal and the political, without sounding artsy. "Eclipse of the Moon" is an apocalyptic vision of social disintegration that strays from reality into fantasy with no resulting loss in intensity: "all the women are banding together/they're running free in the woods tonight/in my sleep I can hear them chanting...