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...comedy - let's hope it fares better the second time. Finally, there's "The Ortegas," a talk-show within-a-sitcom about a family that builds its son a talk-show set in back of the house. You can find the kits at Home Depot, next to the spacecraft-mission-control-room sets...
...shoot!" Husband says, as he accidentally hits a control that briefly switches the spacecraft from autopilot to manual. "We bumped the stick earlier...
...immortalized by his 1958 discovery of the Van Allen radiation belts, those charged particles trapped by the magnetic field in earth-encircling rings high above the atmosphere. And Van Allen has played a key role as a principal investigator in the first missions to Venus and Mars by Mariner spacecraft and to Jupiter by the Pioneers, and has served as a participating scientist for Galileo, which is still in orbit around Jupiter...
...Allen. He works at least six hours a day, scanning new scientific literature and regularly charting fluctuations in the intensity of incoming cosmic rays. In a paper published last year in the prestigious Geophysical Research Letters, he reported new data from the Pioneer 10 and the two Voyager spacecraft, all still alive at the time and the most distant man-made objects in the universe. Those data proved that the effect of the solar wind, the charged particles emitted by the sun, reaches out more than 7.5 billion miles in all directions. The finding provided "beautiful evidence," Van Allen says...
...confusion may be cleared up as NASA continues its hunt for debris--particularly if it finds the first bits that fell from the ship. Shuttle tiles carry serial numbers that correspond to a particular part on the spacecraft's underside. The pieces on the ground thus form a sort of bread-crumb trail leading back to the area on the spacecraft where the problems began. Find the westernmost part, and you have pinpointed the trouble spot. "That would be very, very significant," says Dittemore...