Word: nasa
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Another area of contention is global warming, which scientists fear could cause disruptive changes, such as a rise in sea levels. NASA official James Hansen told Congress last year that he believed the greenhouse effect had already arrived. Since then, that assertion has been widely challenged...
...past, technological advances in art have moved from the new world to the old, as when computer techniques developed by NASA to enhance satellite photos were adapted for use on the works of the old masters. That flow has, to some extent, been reversed. With a major portion of the world's ancient art treasures located inside its borders, Italy has become the capital of high- tech restoration. Experts from such citadels of art as the Louvre, the Getty Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art are making pilgrimages to Italy to see how it is done in Rome...
...FALLING. NASA warns that three U.S. satellites may soon crash to earth. First to fall, perhaps next month: the Solar Max Scientific Satellite. The agency hopes to rescue the eleven-ton Long Duration Exposure Facility, designed to test the effects of solar radiation on computer chips, by using the shuttle Columbia to retrieve it from orbit in December. A supersophisticated Air Force-CIA Key Hole spy satellite failed after deployment on Aug. 8. The $1 billion snooper is tumbling wildly, but the time of its demise cannot be predicted...
...greatest benefits of the Apollo space program was the image in the rearview mirror as the astronauts rocketed to the moon. It was the first time earthlings could see their home as a whole, and NASA's pictures said with stunning force what neither words nor theories could adequately convey: life has radically transformed this numinous sphere. The heart-stopping beauty of the earth set against the dark void of space earned inventor-scientist James Lovelock the first adherents to a theory that appears to reconcile science and religion in the study of life on earth. Lovelock's idea, named...
From top, left to right: (c) 1963 Bob Jackson, Sam Shere -- UPI/Bettmann, Bob Landry -- LIFE, NEIL ARMSTRONG -- NASA, JOE ROSENTHAL -- AP, ALFRED EISENSTAEDT -- LIFE, ED CLARK -- LIFE, DAVID BURNETT -- CONTACT PRESS IMAGES, J.R. EYERMAN -- LIFE, DOROTHEA LANGE -- THE OAKLAND MUSEUM, THE CITY OF OAKLAND, JOSEPH LOUW -- LIFE