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Fortunately, NASA is not the only player, and a new international style of scientific endeavor is emerging. The nations of Europe, in particular, have formed consortiums to do together what they could not do alone. The European Space Agency, for example, has built the Ariane rocket, which competes with the U.S. shuttle in the satellite-launching business...
Working for McDonnell Douglas in California, CHARLES CONRAD is involved in developing a single-stage rocket that may dramatically reduce the cost of sending payloads into orbit. "This is the first thing that's got my candle lit in 25 years," he says...
Just a couple of months before his death, Kennedy went to Cape Canaveral to view the first stage of the giant Saturn rocket. Even as his scientists argued off to the side about how to land men on the moon, the President for a moment stood alone beneath the huge booster casing, rocked back on his heels and stared up. For those seconds, I could see he was beyond the earth, above the quibbling technicians. He was riding with history. I think he knew it was going to work...
...mirabile visu, "Speed" is not Ted on a bus. Reeves' character Jack Trevens is tough and somehow intense. The movie doesn't try to make him out to be a rocket scientist--his partner Harry (Jeff Daniels) provides the technical smarts, constantly telling Travens the why and wherefore of the bombs they encounter. But Travens is believably street-smart, able to think on his feet...
...missed those two open-court lay-ups and drew and offensive interference, I clapped. Loudly. When Kenny Smith nailed that clutch three-pointer with about two minutes left, I did a moonwalk. And when Hakeem Olajuwon got a piece of John Starks' final shot of the game, sealing the Rocket victory, I danced and cheered and nearly had my face punched...