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...even these storms, it should be noted, would look puny compared with the megastorm of unimaginable destructiveness that scientists have dubbed a "hypercane." Indeed, some meteorologists speculate that a runaway hypercane, triggered by the splashdown of a giant asteroid, may have been instrumental in wiping out the dinosaurs 65 million years...
...enough to be spotted--and measured--by the Hubble and ground-based telescopes. Controllers need to fly it into the right crater at just the right angle, and smack bang into the middle of the ice field. Says University of Texas aerospace engineer David Goldstein, who proposed the suicide splashdown: "It's going to be a close call...
CAPE CANAVERAL: Found: One Mercury space capsule, lost at bottom of Atlantic Ocean in 1961 after splashdown mishap. Condition: Like...
...space effort in the early 1960s. However entertaining it was to watch the cute little robot strut its stuff, it would always be the person in space who enthralled the public heart. All the old images that came back with Alan Shepard's death a few weeks ago--the splashdown, the A-O.K.s, the Michelin tire man's space suits--connected to our favorite machines: ourselves...
...rather shaky record, the latter can never be ruled out. But the station has been pretty tenacious thus far ? and since the U.S. badly needs Russian cooperation for the planned International Space Station, NASA may well be delivering astronauts to Mir right up until its scheduled end ? a 1999 splashdown in the Pacific...