Word: nasa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Brin, who holds a doctorate in Astrophysics and is a consultant for NASA, this year gave up his teaching position at the University of California at San Diego to write full-time. He has three more novels coming out in the next year...
...disbelief. The adults flying the shuttle mission at the U.S. Space Camp in Huntsville, Ala., however, gave themselves up to an absorbing hallucination of adventure: Walter Mitty in zero gravity. Most of them fell into their roles with amazing and rather endearing conviction. They put on powder blue NASA flight suits and duck-billed hats with gold braid on them. They threw themselves into training. When it came time for their shuttle missions, they imitated precisely the cadences and vocabularies they had heard so many times on television beaming in from their weightless heroes. "That's affirmative," one camper would...
...Space Camp is part of the Alabama Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, a showcase with museum, theater and "rocket park" that Wernher Von Braun developed in 1970 in connection with NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center nearby. The camp has been open for several summers to young people ages ten to 16. Now for the first time, it is open to adults. They can come to the camp, at a cost of $350 each, to spend three days hearing lectures on space flight, getting a sampling of astronaut training and flying missions in the camp's simulated space shuttle...
...loved things American, and especially the space program. During his second shuttle mission of the weekend, Lobjois was given the job of communications officer. As the crew and mission control listened on the headphones, Lobjois' creamy French accent came over the air, offering commentary on the flight, caressing the NASA jargon. Maurice Chevalier as Chuck Yeager. The more characteristic accent of the weekend belonged to Alabama, one camp official lecturing earnestly on space "mah- jools...
...Monument, tall and splendid in the morning light, but only one six-hundredth as tall as Reagan's stack of $1,000 bills. Pressed on around the Department of Agriculture. What pikers! They have only 240 million bushels of surplus corn stored away. A nod down Independence Avenue to NASA. It would take one of their space shuttles nearly a year and a half in orbit reeling out end-to-end dollar bills to equal the current Debt...