Word: nasa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first of three transcontinental solo flights ("Motoring just isn't safe enough," she explained) and at 71 rode through the sound barrier in an Air Force F-100F Super Sabre. Two years ago, she even applied to be an astronaut. "I could have done it," she insisted after NASA turned her down...
...Remember when trying to "go to the moon" was a synonym for forget it? Well, we did it. We went to the moon. And your "middle America" was just the flagwaving contingent for 200 million people who were all, in their ways, flying just as high as NASA's Columbia, because maybe, just maybe, they all of a sudden realized that hunger and poverty and ghettos and education weren't all problems whose solutions were as distant as the moon...
...wives and children and the terrible anxiety they were feeling. I wanted to do something for the wives. So I decided to offer what I had-my houses." Although Marello declares that he will make "absolutely no use" of the astronauts' names, it is unlikely that NASA will allow the girls to accept the generous offer. In the past, the answer has always been: "Thanks, but no thanks...
...that algae, plant seeds and even beetles can survive temperatures similar to those found on the red planet. "Considering the extreme conditions that organisms tolerate here on earth," adds the University of Hawaii's Sanford Siegel, a physiologist whose studies on low-temperature life have been supported by NASA, "I would be very surprised indeed if we didn't find life on other planets...
Clearly, the two highly successful Mariner flybys have whetted the appetites of space officials for further planetary exploration. NASA Administrator Thomas Paine last week urged the U.S. to send two nuclear-powered spaceships, one to serve as a rescue vehicle, on a two-year trip to Mars by the 1980s. Many scientists, noting that such a project would cost perhaps $60 billion, prefer less expensive unmanned probes beyond Mars. Last week 23 space scientists strongly urged "grand tours" of the outer planets in the mid-1970s. At that time, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus and Pluto will be so aligned that...