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There are some noteworthy efforts to turn the interest back on. The N.S.F. conference last week took place at the site of one model program. Set in 145 rolling acres in Decatur, Ga., the Fernbank Science Center boasts a 65-acre nature forest, a 500-seat planetarium, a collection of dinosaurs and a 36-in. reflector telescope that has been used to track Apollo space missions. Students from all over the surrounding DeKalb County school district use the facility. Each quarter, for example, 60 ninth-graders are bused in for a nine-week program in which they study math, physics...
...basically interested in space since I was six," Hoffman says. "Rockets were the neatest things around." He recalls having a avid interest in science fiction, and being fascinated by the stars when he visited the planetarium or peered through his father's telescope...
...Conference on the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (Unispace 82, for short), the pert, 33-year-old physician, who has been training for a shuttle flight and may become one of the first American women in space, attended parties and even lectured to children at the Vienna planetarium. At week's end, however, Fisher's star was eclipsed by a 34-year-old acrobatic pilot and parachutist named Svetlana Savitskaya, who blasted off with two male crew mates in the Soviet spaceship Soyuz T-7 on Thursday. She was only the second woman, after fellow Soviet...
...Hayden Planetarium at the Boston Museum of Science has also been flooded with calls. Monday they received more than 50, museum official Bob Burnston said. Museum workers taking the calls have explained that the planets, when most nearly aligned before dawn today, were grouped within a 98-degree quadrant around the sun and that even perfect alignment would cause only a one millimeter tide on the sun. Burnston said...
...leader. Dean, however, inherits his girlfriend. He and she then run off to a deserted mansion. Peace, however, does not last. Within hours the gang is after them, and another student goes crazy with a gun. Having shot one member of the gang, he then takes refuge in a planetarium, shoots at the police, and is eventually killed by the officers. Throughout this whole day, Dean is trying to live a good American life...