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Writing in last week's issue of Science, the Japanese researchers report that they achieved this feat of bovine photocopying using two different types of cells, taken from a single cow's ovaries and fallopian tubes. Those cells--all carrying the same genetic payload--were introduced into cow ova whose genes had been scooped away. Ten such identical embryos were then implanted in the wombs of surrogate cow mothers, and all but two came to term...
...part of the experiment, Glenn and Dr. Chiaka Mukai, a payload specialist from Japan, spent four nights wired to sensors that monitored breathing, muscle tension, brain waves, oxygen levels and eye and body movement. After their return Saturday, they slept at Johnson Space Center in Houston, still wired to the sensors. They will continue to give blood and urine samples for the next few weeks. Czeisler was still in Houston yesterday according to his secretary, and could not be reached for comment...
...John Glenn is safely back on terra firma, he and the rest of the Discovery crew are doing the best they can to maintain America?s renewed interest in the space program. "I wish that every flight received this same kind of attention," the 77-year-old senator and payload specialist told a press conference Sunday. His commander, Curtis Brown Jr., also used the occasion to give some desperate plugs to upcoming NASA missions -? specifically a more unpopular and expensive one. Discovery?s landing, Brown urged, should be seen as "the first chapter in a new adventure: the International Space...
There are those who have criticized Glenn's mission as a mere publicity stunt to revitalize NASA's flagging space program. After all, Glenn is merely a guinea pig on the nine-day journey. Dubbed "Payload Specialist 2," he is the lowest ranking member of the crew...
Everything?s just peachy for John Glenn. And on the second day of his back-to-space voyage, the man who is ostensibly a humble payload specialist continues to get more attention from the planet below him than all other shuttle astronauts, past and present, put together. The city of Perth in Western Australia, nostalgic about the night it lit up for Glenn?s Friendship 7 fly-by, decided to go one brighter. The grand old spaceman saw their luminous display for about five minutes, and pronounced it better than 1962: "They?ve really got them lit up tonight," Glenn...