Word: nasa
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...long, long time in coming, but NASA?s manned space program finally got one right. Thursday's announcement that the contract for the next-generation crew exploration vehicle - now dubbed Orion - had been awarded to Lockheed Martin was the right spacecraft to the right company at the right time...
...quite as old, hasn't been traveling as long and thus isn't stretched as much. That light should be detectable not as microwaves but as infrared--which is why the new telescopes will be fitted with infrared sensors. It's also why the James Webb telescope, NASA's planned successor to the Hubble, will be optimized to see infrared, not visible light...
Once students start Looking Beyond the Ivy League--the title of another Pope book--they see for themselves the advantages that can come with an open mind. They find a school that lets students work with NASA on deep-space experiments, or maintains a year-round ski cabin or funds a full year of traveling in the developing world. Schools once derided as "safeties" stand taller now, as they make the case that excellence is not always a function of exclusivity. Some kids end up getting into Harvard and then turning it down because of the $30,000 tuition...
...NASA lost the original film of the moon landing. Well, you know, in their defense, they're not exactly rocket scientists." DAVID LETTERMAN...
...were running out of room in their small house as Andrea's brothers and their kids moved in briefly, but her parents were adamant that Rusty not take her back to the bus. It was not healthy for her--or the kids. So Rusty, now a project manager at NASA earning $80,000 a year, bought a house, the second one he looked at: 942 Beachcomber Lane, a Spanish-style home with three bedrooms, two baths, trees, a high wood fence around the backyard and a spot to park the bus. Rusty took Andrea to close the deal...