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Jeff Bagwell can tell you all about being hit by a pitch. He had a bone in his left hand broken three years in a row. That hasn't stopped him from crowding the plate in that squatty stance and sending balls into orbit that the Johnson Space Center ends up tracking. Of course, baseball isn't as exciting as figuring out what's going to explode next...
...watchers following the recent arrival of American astronaut David Wolf aboard the Russian space station Mir can look toward the heavens to spot the station in orbit from the Charles River this weekend...
Atlantis' five day mission will end on Friday, and both 100-ton vessels will disengage-the shuttle will return to Earth and Mir will remain in orbit...
...staggeringly low $40,000--only $4,000 of it needed to walk free. It was paid by Barbara Bronfman, a Montreal socialite who had married into the Seagram distillery family and met Einhorn through a common interest in the paranormal. It was Einhorn's new rage, and his orbit of friends had expanded to include Uri Geller, the spoon-bending Israeli illusionist...
...Moon come to be? Prevailing wisdom has it that 4.5 billion years ago, a collision between the Earth and an object larger than Mars tossed immense quantities of vapor and debris into orbit around our planet. Eventually, the gas and rock formed a disk of dust which cooled and clumped together to form the moon. That theory received a major boost Thursday thanks to a study published in the journal Nature. Using computer simulations, University of Colorado scientists showed how a single moon can grow in this fashion. The researchers conducted 27 simulations which tracked up to 2,700 objects...