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Perfect crystals will still be hard to grow in space because of the vibrations sustained by the spaceship during its return to Earth. But Thiessen theorizes that he will be able to overcome this problem by using a lowconcentration solution of agarose...
...Leader begins, "Voyager is like Gilligan's Island in space." Her voice is flat and I hope her comment is positive I liked Gilligan, the Skipper too. "It's better than Next Generation at this point," she continues. Although it is common knowledge that the rings around the Voyager spaceship have the wrong proportion, coming close to 2000 miles in circumference, members are anxiously singing upon a list to borrow the taped episode...
...space shuttle Discovery and its crew of six climbed into orbit, the dreams and aspirations of women also soared, in the person of Lieut. Colonel EILEEN COLLINS, 38. Collins is second in command and the first female to take over the controls of a NASA spaceship. She is carrying mementos of women aviators of the past, including a scarf that belonged to Amelia Earhart. Collins started taking flying lessons when she was 19 and in 1990 became the U.S. Air Force's second woman test pilot. She is not dwelling on the historic aspect of this flight: ``Maybe someday when...
Imust admit that I am writing this with a divided heart. Part of me objects to it: the part that dreams about outer space, that as child turned my playroom into the bridge of a spaceship. In third grade, I even wrote a short science-fiction story about an astronaut who is sent to the far ends of the galaxy to investigate a mysterious alien message...
Broadway isn't the only place for grand spectacle. At the Treasure Island hotel in Las Vegas, that Mecca of excess, the Montreal troupe Cirque du Soleil has created a gorgeously surreal, thrillingly theatrical pageant. Acrobats mingle with Adam and Eve, spaceship Earth and a giant snail in a fantasy of rebirth. It plays like the fever dream of some millennial impresario. Call him Siegfried Roy Webber...