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Thiessen said his interest with crystals began in the fifth grade when a friend's mother showed him a NASA fact sheet on protein crystal growth in space...
First, there are a few crayoned or markered pictures of her holding beakers. Then she pulls out a sheet of paper with a pencil drawing of a beaker with huge stars surrounding...
...Cosmodrome, furthermore, is deteriorating rapidly from the harsh desert climate, from neglect and from outright theft and vandalism. Leaky roofs allow rainwater to flood the interiors of assembly buildings, and some of the launching pads are no longer usable. "People steal anything, even copper cable or sheet metal from the roofs of buildings," reports Sergei Leskov, a space correspondent for Izvestia. Last year a supply rocket reached Mir with part of its complement of food missing--evidently looted on the ground by launch crews. The danger is not so much of an accident, say U.S. space experts...
Hours later, O'Grady's father, William, a radiologist in Alexandria, Virginia, was handed a typewritten sheet from Air Force chaplain Steven Rich saying that his son was in Bosnia, that he had been shot down, that no one saw him eject and that they had received no signal from him. "That was the hard part," recalled the elder O'Grady. "We never really knew if he was alive...
...hundred feet away in the parking lot, Allison Krause fell mortally wounded. Jeff Miller's face was blown off. [Alan] Canfora took a bullet in the wrist and [Tom] Grace, shot in the foot, writhed in agony. Loaded onto an ambulance, Grace watched as medical attendants pulled a sheet over Sandy Scheur's head. Four dead, nine wounded...