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Bihar is one of the sorriest places on earth. The eastern Indian state is the poorest and most illiterate in the subcontinent. Extortion and gang wars are rife, thousands of people die in floods every few years, and NASA recently discovered a cloud of smog over Bihar five times as dense as that over Los Angeles. It's not a place where you'll find many tourists, and certainly not somewhere you'd expect a center of scholarly excellence. So the existence of the Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library (kblibrary.nic.in), a small pink building in downtown Patna, the state capital...
According to a press release on Wyden’s website, a 2004 Government Accountability Office report found that many government agencies receiving federal funding to uphold equal treatment of women under Title IX, such as NASA and the National Science Foundation, were not succeeding...
...craft flying 200 miles above earth may have been the all-American orbiter Challenger, but for the first time ever, Houston had help. As NASA engineers took care of the nuts and bolts of the flight from Texas, a team of 160 flight specialists in the sleepy town of Oberpfaffenhofen, 15 miles southwest of Munich, oversaw the German D-1 Spacelab, stuffed into Challenger's cargo bay and carrying an elaborate array of 76 scientific experiments. Said a proud Hubertus Wanke, head of mission operations at Oberpfaffenhofen: "It's all similar to Houston, but in upper Bavaria...
Indeed, last week's highly successful mission was a milestone in space cooperation between NASA and the European Space Agency. Although ESA's expendable Ariane rockets compete directly with NASA for commercial cargo, the Europeans recognize the unique capability of the shuttle and are eager to get in on the act. For its part, NASA had good reason to relinquish some control of the mission: ESA had built the $1 billion laboratory, and the Germans had also paid $64 million for the privilege of taking charge. The transatlantic comradeship extended further. Included in the crew of eight were two West...
...crisp night early this month, Astronomers Stephen Edberg and Charles Morris, both 33, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., drove up a rocky slope on Mount Waterman, 25 miles northeast of Los Angeles. Scanning the moonless heavens with his binoculars, Morris sighted a faint light source. Then he located the same diffuse blob with his naked eyes. Meanwhile, Edberg sketched the position of the dim light and compared his drawing with the magnified view of the object provided by his binoculars. Sure enough, there it was. The two men had made the first unaided sighting of Halley...